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Connecting worlds: the translation of international auditing standards into post-Soviet audit practice

Mennicken, Andrea - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper analyses the use and circulation of nternational auditing standards within a large post-Soviet Russian audit firm, as it faces up to the challenges of international harmonisation. It describes this process as one of ‘connecting worlds’ and translation. In a detailed field study...

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Collective agreements, wages and restructuring in transition

Magda, Iga; Marsden, David; Moriconi, Simone - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

, wages and restructuring in transition in three former centrally planned economies (Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland). They … adopt a natural experiment approach and capture the restructuring process triggered by the launch of transition by means of … agreements depends on restructuring and its timing in the transition. In early-middle transition firms, industry level agreements …

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Concentration versus re-matching? Evidence about the locational effects of commuting costs

Boehm, Michael J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Using administrative employer-employee data from Germany, I exploit two reductions of tax breaks for commuting in 2003/4 and 2006/7 to estimate commuting costs’ effect on the decision to switch job and move house. Standard theory predicts that higher commuting costs should lead to increased...

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The economic situation of first- and second-generation immigrants in France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Algan, Yann; Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe’s largest economies. France, Germany and the United Kingdom have all become, perhaps unwittingly,...

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The spatial sorting and matching of skills and firms

Mion, Giordano; Naticchioni, Paolo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

In this paper we make use of a matched employer-employee database for Italy to look at the spatial distribution of wages. Using this rich database we aim to open up the black box of agglomeration economies exploiting the micro dimension of interaction among economic agents, both individuals and...

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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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Do workers' remittances reduce the probability of current account reversals?

Bugamelli, Matteo; Paterno, Francesco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The paper combines the literature on financial crises in emerging markets and developing economies with that on international migrations by investigating whether the increasingly large flows of workers’ remittances can help reduce the probability of current account reversals. The rationale for...

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The returns to temporary migration to the United States: evidence from the Mexican urban employment survey

Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Mexican migration to the United States has been a very important issue throughout the twentieth century, and its relevance has reached unprecedented levels during the last two decades. Even though there is a huge body of literature that analyses many different aspects of this phenomenon, the...

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Assimilation of migrants into the British labour market

Dickens, Richard; McKnight, Abigail - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper discusses the extent to which migrants to Britain have been assimilated into the workforce. Migration into Britain has increased over the last 25 years, with a big increase in inflows in recent years. The paper shows that when a migrant worker first arrives they experience a pay gap...

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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

London is one of the world’s major cities, and one of its most diverse. London’s cultural diversity is widely seen as a social asset, but there is little hard evidence on its importance for the city’s businesses. Theory and evidence suggest various links between urban cultural diversity...

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