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The effect of trade on the demand for skill - evidence from the interstate highway system
Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the … labor market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System … provides a unique policy experiment, which I use to identify the effect of reducing trade barriers on the relative demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745495
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The effect of trade on the demand for skill - evidence from the interstate highway system
Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the … labor market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System … provides a unique policy experiment, which I use to identify the effect of reducing trade barriers on the relative demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745883
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Winners and losers from a commodities-for-manufactures trade boom
Costa, Francisco; Garred, Jason; Pessoa, João Paulo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126579
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To leave or not to leave? A regression discontinuity analysis of the impact of failing the High School exit exam
Ou, Dongshu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
The high school exit exam (HSEE) is rapidly becoming a standardized assessment procedure for educational accountability in the United States. I use a unique state-specific dataset to identify the effect of failing the HSEE on the likelihood that a student drops out early based on a Regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884554
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Understanding low achievement in English schools
Kingdon, Geeta; Cassen, Robert - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications in England. This paper seeks to build a fuller picture of Key Stage 4 low achievement and its correlates than available hitherto. We focus on three aspects. Firstly, the role of students’ personal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884594
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Peer effects in science: evidence from the dismissal of scientists in Nazi Germany
Waldinger, Fabian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
This paper analyzes peer effects among university scientists. Specifically, it investigates whether the number of peers and their average quality affects the productivity of researchers in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The usual endogeneity problems related to estimating peer effects are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745806
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Paying out and crowding out? The globalisation of higher education
Machin, Stephen; Murphy, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We investigate the rapid influx of overseas students into UK higher education and the impact on the number of domestic students. Using administrative data since 1994/5, we find no evidence of crowd out of domestic undergraduate students and indications of increases in the domestic numbers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126622
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Money for nothing: estimating the impact of student aid on participation in higher education
Dearden, Lorraine; Fitzsimons, Emla; Wyness, Gill - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Understanding how higher education (HE) finance policy can affect HE decisions is important for understanding how governments can promote human capital accumulation. Yet there is a severe lack of evidence on the effectiveness of student aid in encouraging HE participation outside of the US, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126729
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Inequality and unemployment in a global economy
Helpman, Elhanan; Itshoki, Oleg; Redding, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
This paper develops a new framework for examining the distributional consequences of international trade that …. Larger firms pay higher wages and exporters pay higher wages than non-exporters. The opening of trade enhances wage … is larger in a trade equilibrium than in autarky, reductions of trade impediments can either raise or reduce wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884563
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Evolution of locations, specialisation and factor returns with two distinct waves of globalisation
Thia, Jang Ping - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
This paper presents an economic geography model with two differentiated sectors that exhibit weaker inter and stronger intra-industry input-output linkages. Labour is also differentiated according to skills in a hierarchy of tasks they can perform. Globalisation occurs in two distinct phases,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928749