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Medium and Long Run Prospects for UK Growth in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis
Oulton, Nicholas - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
, and using a two-sector growth model, I project the future growth rate of GDP per hour in the market sector to be 2.61% p … productivity but not necessarily on its long run growth rate. I therefore predict that the UK will eventually return to the growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700733
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Spatial Agglomeration Dynamics
Quah, Danny - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3-dimensional featureless global … geography. The same economic forces influence simulataneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and clustering … egalitarian growth. Equality is stable but spatial inequality is needed to attain it. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016794
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Sexism at work
Erikssoon, Björn; Karlsson, Tobias; Leunig, Tim; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
Women have, on average, been less well-paid than men throughout history. Prior to 1900, most economic historians see the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper investigates the gender wage gap in cigar making around 1900....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598727
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Gender and the labour market: evidence from experiments
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Lab experiments are an increasingly valuable tool for understanding differences in how men and women are treated in the labour market. Dr Ghazala Azmat and Professor Barbara Petrongolo explore what has been learned about the extent to which differences in men and women's pay and employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765692
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Gender, Productivity and the Nature of Work and Pay: Evidence from the Late Nineteenth-Century Tobacco Industry
Eriksson, Björn; Karlsson, Tobias; Leunig, Tim; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
Women have, on average, been less well-paid than men throughout history. Prior to 1900, most economic historians see the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper investigates the gender wage gap in cigar making around 1900....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644037
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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754464
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The Long-Term Consequences of Regional Specialization
Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
What are the consequences of resource-based regional specialization, when it persists over a long period of time? While much of the literature argues that specialization is beneficial, recent work suggests it may be costly in the long run, due to economic or political reasons. I examine this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797227
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Outsourcing and the shift from manufacturing to services
Berlingieri, Giuseppe - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Giuseppe Berlingieri looks at the structural transformation of the US economy over the past 60 years.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010774271
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Outsourcing and the shift from manufacturing to services
Berlingieri, Giuseppe - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Giuseppe Berlingieri looks at the structural transformation of the US economy over the past 60 years.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738421
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Dynamic Selection: An Idea Flows Theory of Entry, Trade and Growth
Sampson, Thomas - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
This paper develops an idea flows theory of trade and growth with heterogeneous firms. New firms learn from incumbent … and this complementarity generates endogenous growth without scale effects. On the balanced growth path, the productivity … distribution is a traveling wave with an increasing lower bound. Growth of the lower bound causes dynamic selection. Free entry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812585