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Firm Knowledge, Neighborhood Diversity and Innovation

Wixe, Sofia - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

This paper tests the importance of firm level knowledge and neighborhood diversity, as a source for localized knowledge … points to the importance of absorptive capacity. However, firm characteristics, such as the knowledge of the own employees …

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Innovation, Technology and Knowledge

Karlsson, Charlie; Johansson, Börje; Norman, Therese - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011

and drivers of innovation, technology and knowledge. The role of absorptive capacity and knowledge flows between economic … multinationals contribute to innovation, technology and knowledge dispersion. The distribution of knowledge investments is uneven …This paper outlines a set of fundamental changes in the global economy that have altered the nature of the innovation …

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Intergenerational mobility in the United States and Great Britain: a comparative study of parent-child pathways

Blanden, Jo; Haveman, Robert; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We build on cross-national research to examine the relationships underlying estimates of relative intergenerational mobility in the United States and Great Britain using harmonized longitudinal data and focusing on men. We examine several pathways by which parental status is related to offspring...

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Has ICT polarized skill demand? Evidence from eleven countries over 25 years

Michaels, Guy; Natraj, Ashwini; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We test the hypothesis that information and communication technologies (ICT) “polarize” labor markets, by increasing demand for the highly educated at the expense of the middle educated, with little effect on low-educated workers. Using data on the US, Japan, and nine European countries from...

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Why are higher skilled workers more mobile geographically?: the role of the job surplus

Amior, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

The skill gap in geographical mobility is entirely driven by workers who report moving for a new job. A natural explanation lies in the large expected surplus accruing to skilled job matches. Just as large surpluses ease the frictions which impede job search in general, they also help overcome...

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Which Types of Relatedness Matter in Regional Growth? - Industry, occupation and education.

Wixe, Sofia; Andersson, Martin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

greater when there is related variety in their ‘knowledge base’. We also find that related variety in industries is positive …

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The evolution of inequality in productivity and wages: panel data evidence

Faggio, Giulia; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

There has been a remarkable increase in wage inequality in the US, UK and many other countries over the past three decades. A significant part of this appears to be within observable groups (such as age-gender-skill cells). A generally untested implication of many theories rationalizing the...

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The impact of vocational qualifications on the labour market outcomes of low-achieving school-leavers

McIntosh, Steven - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper creates a pseudo cohort of individuals who left school in the mid-1990s, using Labour Force Survey. The extent of low achievement at school amongst this group is documented, and then the impact of such low achievement on labour force status is estimated. The main focus of the paper is...

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Wage inequality, technology and trade: 21st Century evidence

Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper describes and explains some of the principal trends in the wage and skilldistribution in recent decades. There have been sharp increases in wage inequality across theOECD, beginning with the US and UK at the end of the 1970s. A good fraction of thisinequality growth is due to...

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Access all areas? The impact of fees and background on student demand for postgraduate higher education in the UK

Wales, Philip - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper analyses participation in postgraduate higher education in the UK at the micro-level makes several contributions to the literature. Firstly, it describes trends in postgraduate participation in the UK. Secondly, it introduces a hitherto unavailable dataset of postgraduate tuition fees...

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