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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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Capital mobility and unemployment dynamics: evidence from a panel of OECD countries

Vallanti, Giovanna - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

We use a panel of 20 OECD countries over a 30-year period to estimate the implications of international capital mobility for unemployment. We find that the increase in capital flows since the mid1980s has contributed to an amplification of the impulse response of unemployment to country-specific...

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A simple model of the juggernaut effect of trade liberalisation

Baldwin, Richard E.; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper posits a formal political economy model where the principle of reciprocity in multilateral trade talks results in the gradual elimination of tariffs. Reciprocity trade talks turn each nation’s exporters into anti-protectionists at home; they lower foreign tariffs by convincing their...

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Is Poland the next Spain?

Caselli, Francesco; Tenreyro, Silvana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

We revisit Western Europe’s record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both higher rates of physical capital accumulation and...

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Medicines in parallel trade in the European Union: a gravity specification

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Kanavos, Panos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

While recent research has explored the phenomenon of drug parallel trade in regulated environments such as the European Union (EU), or the European Economic Area, little is known about the mechanisms that explain its origin or the role of the distribution chain in exporting and importing...

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Was Germany ever united?: evidence from intra- and international trade 1885-1933

Wolf, Nikolaus - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper asks whether Germany was ever an economically integrated area. I explore the geography of trade costs in a new data set of about 40,000 observations on regional trade flows within and across the borders of Germany over the period 1885 – 1933. There are three key results. First, the...

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RELATIVE WAGE FLEXIBILITY IN FOUR COUNTRIES

PISSARIDES, C.; MOGHADAM, R. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1989

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Wage disparities in Britain: people or place?

Gibbons, Stephen; Overman, Henry G.; Pelkonen, Panu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper investigates wage disparities across sub-national labour markets in Britain using anewly available microdata …

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Young Canadians’ apprenticeship labour in user-generated content

Shepherd, Tamara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

-generated content (UGC) as a kind of apprenticeship labour. Based on case studies of four young Montréalers engaged in creating user …-generated content, the author developed the apprenticeship-type model of UGC labour to denote a process by which online immaterial … labour or “free labour” coincides with self-directed and informal job training, channelled specifically toward a career in …

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THE EFFECTS OF UNIONS ON CORPORATE INVESTMENT: EVIDENCE FROM ACCOUNTS DATA, 1972-86

WADHWANI, S.; WALL, M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1989

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