century? After years of inadequate investment in skills, infrastructure and innovation, there are longstanding structural …

much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on average. Immigrants, especially in recent years, tend to be younger and …

import competition experienced slower growth in manufacturing wages and in-migration rates between 2000 and 2010, and greater …

have been exaggerated. It is hard to find evidence of much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on average … have experienced greater downward pressure on wages and greater competition for jobs than others, but these effects still …

still not, on average, materialised. It is hard to find evidence of much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on …

wages and living standards, productivity and business, Europe, the NHS, schools, tuition fees, gender gaps, urban and …

joint ventures have large effects on productivity especially when combined with a technology transfer component. We estimate …

locate across regions with distinct distributions of workers and wages. Firm technologies which best match regional labor … markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …