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Fueling the Gender Gap? Oil and Women's Labor and Marriage Market Outcomes

Maurer, Stephan E.; Potlogea, Andrei V. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

This paper analyzes the effect of resource-based economic specialization on women's labor market outcomes. Using information on the location and discovery of major oil fields in the Southern United States coupled with a county-level panel derived from US Census data for 1900-1940, we...

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Spatial Disparities in Developing Countries: Cities, Regions and International Trade

Venables, Anthony J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

Spatial inequality in developing countries is due to the natural advantages of some regions relative to others and to the presence of agglomeration forces, leading to clustering of activity. This paper reviews and develops some simple models that capture these first and second nature economic...

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Spatial Determinants of Productivity: Analysis for the Regions of Great Britain

Rice, Patricia; Venables, Anthony J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

This paper uses NUTS3 sub-regional data for Great Britain to analyse the determinants of spatialvariations in income and productivity. We decompose the spatial variation of earnings into aproductivity effect and an occupational composition effect. For the former (but not the latter) wefind a...

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Shifts in Economic Geography and their Causes

Venables, Anthony J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

This paper analyses some of the forces that are changing the spatial distribution of activity in the world economy. It draws on the 'new economic geography' literature to argue the importance of increasing returns to scale and cumulative causation processes in shaping the productivity and...

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The Effect of Information and Communication Technologies on Urban Structure

Ioannides, Y; Overman, Henry; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

The geographic concentration of economic activity occurs because transport costs for goods, people and ideas give individuals and organisations incentives to locate close to each other. Historically, all of these costs have been falling. Such changes could lead us to predict the death of...

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Buzz: Face-to-Face Contact and the Urban Economy

Storper, Michael; Venables, Anthony J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

This paper argues that existing models of urban concentrations are incomplete unless grounded in the most fundamental aspect of proximity; face-to-face contact. Face-to-face contact has four main features; it is an efficient communication technology; it can help solve incentive problems; it can...

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Upward Social Mobility, Well-being and Political Preferences: Evidence from the BHPS

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Angelo, Emanuela - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

relative to one's parents on job and life satisfaction, preferences for redistribution, pro-public sector attitudes and voting …

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Gender Gaps in the UK Labour Market: jobs, pay and family-friendly policies

Azmat, Ghazala - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

sizeable 'gender gaps' in employment and wages. Certain factors help to explain a good part of gender gaps, including caring … changes have focused on supporting family-friendly employment for both men and women, including improvements in childcare …

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Employment, Inequality and the UK National Minimum Wage over the Medium-Term

Dolton, Peter; Rosazza-Bondibene, Chiara; Wadsworth, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the … increased bite of the NMW is associated with falls in lower tail wage inequality. Moreover, while the average employment effect … of the NMW over the entire period is broadly neutral, there are small but significant positive employment estimates from …

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Minimum wages: the economics and the politics

Manning, Alan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

popular with voters - but even most economists now agree that they have little or no negative effect on employment. Big … increases in minimum wages will test the view that negative effects on employment must eventually kick in. …

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