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Does self-employment measure entrepreneurship? evidence from Great Britain

Faggio, Giulia; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Research on entrepreneurship often uses information on self-employment to proxy for business creation and innovative …

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Does cultural diversity help innovation in cities: evidence from London firms

Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

London is one of the world’s major cities, and one of its most diverse. London’s cultural diversity is widely seen as a social asset, but there is little hard evidence on its importance for the city’s businesses. Theory and evidence suggest various links between urban cultural diversity...

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Self-employment and entrepreneurship in urban and rural labour markets

Faggio, Giulia; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We study the link between self-employment and some salient aspects of entrepreneurship – namely business creation and … not evident when focussing on entrepreneurship. Finally, we show that the misalignment between self-employment and our … proxies for entrepreneurship in rural areas disappears once we account for local labour market conditions. Our results suggest …

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Can labour supply explain the rise in unemployment and intergroup wage inequality in the OECD?

Wasmer, E. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

This paper investigates how labour supply trends might have affected the OECD labour markets in the last decades. It is argued that changes in supply cannot be considered as homogenous: they involve more young and more adult female workers, who are complements with skilled men and substitutes...

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Imports and exports at the level of the firm: evidence from Belgium

Muuls, Mirabelle; Pisu, Mauro - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper explores a newly-available panel data set merging balance sheet and international trade transaction data for Belgium. Both imports and exports appear to be highly concentrated among few firms and seem to have become more so over time. Focusing on manufacturing, we find that facts...

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Resurrecting the participation margin

Ebell, Monique - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper considers a real business cycle model with search frictions in the labor market and labor supply which is elastic along the extensive (participation) margin. Previous authors have found that such models generate counterfactually procyclical unemployment and a positively-sloped...

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Lousy and lovely jobs: the rising polarization of work in Britain

Goos, Maarten; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper argues that skill-biased technical change has some deficiencies as a hypothesis about the impact of technology on the labor market and that a more nuanced view recently proposed by Autor, Levy and Murnane (2003) is a more accurate description. The difference between the two hypotheses...

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Has job polarization squeezed the middle class? Evidence from the allocation of talents

Boehm, Michael J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Over the last two decades, earnings in the United States increased at the top and at the bottom of the wage distribution but not in the middle - the intensely debated middle class squeeze. At the same time there was a substantial decline of employment in middle-skill production and clerical...

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The plant size-place effect: agglomeration and monopsony in labour markets

Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper shows, using data from both the US and the UK, that average plant size is larger in denser markets. However, many popular theories of agglomeration – spillovers, cost advantages and improved match quality – predict that establishments should be smaller in cities. The paper...

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Accounting for big city growth in low paid occupations: immigration and/or service class consumption

Gordon, Ian; Kaplanis, Ioannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Growth of 'global cities' in the 1980s was supposed to have involved an occupational polarisation, including growth of low paid service jobs. Though held to be untrue for European cities, at the time, some such growth did emerge in London a decade later than first reported for New York. The...

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