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Does cultural diversity help innovation in cities: evidence from London firms

Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

various links between urban cultural diversity and innovation, at individual, firm and urban level. This paper uses a sample …

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Top team demographics, innovation and business performance: findings from English firms and cities 2008-9

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

information on revenues, product and process innovation. I then regress these measures of business performance on top team … between diversity and business performance, which is net positive for process innovation and net negative for turnover …

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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: a survey of the literature for receiving countries

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...

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Cultural diversity, innovation and entrepreneurship: firm-level evidence from London

Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

cultural diversity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and sales strategies in London businesses between 2005 and 2007. London is … entrepreneurship. Overall, the results provide some support for claims that diversity is an economic asset, as well as a social benefit. …

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Education or inflation? The roles of structural factors and macroeconomic instability in explaining Brazilian inequality in the 1980s

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Litchfield, Julie A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

This paper investigates possible explanations for the increases in inequality observed in Brazil during the 1980s …

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Do oil windfalls improve living standards?: evidence from Brazil

Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls. We find muted effects of oil through market channels: offshore oil has no effect on municipal non-oil GDP or its composition, while onshore oil has only modest effects on non-oil GDP...

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Fertility and union dissolution in Brazil: an example of multi-process modelling using the Demographic and Health Survey calendar data

Leone, Tiziana; Hinde, Andrew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

between union instability and fertility in Brazil which has been long understudied. Using the example of Brazil it … fertility in Brazil using multiprocess event history analysis techniques as developed by Lillard (1993). This type of …

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Violence and birth outcomes: evidence from homicides in Brazil

Koppensteiner, Martin Foureaux; Manacorda, Marco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

, where violence is endemic. Our estimates imply that homicides in Brazil are responsible for at least 0.5 percent of the …

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Matching demand and supply in a weightless economy : market-driven creativity with and without IPRs

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …

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Coordinating tasks in M-form and U-form organisations

Qian, Yingyi; Roland, Gerard; Xu, Cheng-Gang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

compare the performance of organisational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In … more innovation and reform. The theory is illustrated by the organisational differences between China and the former Soviet …

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