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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 impact of immigration on the structure of male wages: theory and evidence from Britain
Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
of British cross-sectional micro data of observations on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s … of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e … an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series …
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On the relative gains to immigration: a comparison of the labour market position of Indians in the USA, the UK and India
De Coulon, Augustin; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
While most studies of the decision to immigrate focus on the absolute income differences between countries, we argue that relative change in purchasing power or status, as captured by an individual’s ranking in the wage distribution, may also be important. This will in turn be influenced by...
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Immigration and the UK labour market: the latest evidence from economic research
Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
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 …
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Immigration, the European union and the UK labour market
Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on average. Immigrants, especially in recent years, tend to be younger and …
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