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Unemployment clusters across European regions and countries

Overman, Henry G.; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

intermediate rates have been driven by changes in regional employment, only partly offset by labour force changes. Regions …

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Trade shocks and industrial location: the impact of EEC accession on the UK

Overman, Henry G.; Winters, L. Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

geography models of how external trade affects the spatial distribution of employment. Our results suggest that accession … increase employment while increased import competition decreases employment. …

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The port geography of UK international trade

Overman, Henry G.; Winters, L Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper examines how the geography of UK international trade has changed since the United Kingdom’s accession to the European Economic Community, using a newly constructed dataset that gives a detailed breakdown of the United Kingdom’s imports and exports by both port of entry and exit...

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The spatial distribution of economic activities in the European Union

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper considers the spatial distribution of economic activities in the European Union. It has three main aims. (i) To describe the data that is available in the EU and give some idea of the rich spatial data sets that are fast becoming available at the national level. (ii) To present...

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The geography of UK international trade

Overman, Henry G.; Winters, L. Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper examines how the geography of UK international trade has changed since the UK¿s accession to the European Economic Community using a newly constructed data set that gives a detailed breakdown of the UK¿s imports and exports by both port of entry and exit and commodity. Our results...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071343

Internationalization and innovation of firms: evidence and policy

Altomonte, Carlo; Aquilante, Tommaso; Békés, Gábor; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We use a representative and cross-country comparable sample of manufacturing firms (EFIGE) to document patterns of interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom). We...

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The effect of public sector employment on local labour markets

Faggio, Giulia; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper considers the impact of public sector employment on local labour markets. Using English data at the Local … Authority level for 2003–2007 we find that public sector employment has no identifiable effect on total private sector … employment. However, public sector employment does affect the sectoral composition of the private sector. Specifically, each …

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New road infrastructure: the effects on firms

Gibbons, Stephen; Lyytikainen, Teemu; Overman, Henry G.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

, but not the employment of existing firms. We also find effects on labour productivity and wages at the firm level …This paper estimates the impact of road improvements on firm employment and productivity using plant level longitudinal … data for Britain. Exposure to transport improvements is measured by changes in employment accessibility along the road …

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The causal effects of an industrial policy

Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry G.; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …

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