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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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Change and continuity among minority communities in Britain

Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

There is widespread concern currently that some ethnic minority communities within Britain, especially Muslim, are not following the stereotypical immigrant path of economic and cultural assimilation into British society. Indeed, many seem to have the impression that differences between Muslims...

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Ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation in the UK: evidence from patents microdata

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

Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do ‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory, ethnicity might affect positively innovation...

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Inactivity among prime age men in the UK

Faggio, Giulia; Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Inactivity rates among prime-age men in the UK have risen by at least five times since the early 1970s whereas unemployment rates are much the same. Furthermore, inactivity is strongly concentrated among the unskilled and those suffering from a limiting long-term illness or disability. In our...

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Labor pooling, labor poaching and spatial clustering

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

When firms cluster in the same local labor market, they face a trade-off between the benefits of labor pooling (i.e., access to workers whose knowledge help reduce costs) and the costs of labor poaching (i.e., loss of some key workers to competition and the indirect effect of a higher wage bill...

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Incentives in competitive search equilibrium

Moen, Espen R.; Rosen, Asa - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper analyses the interaction between internal agency problems within firms and external search frictions when workers have private information. We show that the allocation of resources is determined by a modified Hosios Rule. We then analyze the effect of changes in the macro economic...

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Identifying sorting: in theory

Eeckhout, Jan; Kircher, Philipp - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Assortative Matching between workers and firms provides evidence of the complementarities or substitutes in production. The presence of complementarities is important for policies that aim to achieve the optimal allocation of resources, for example unemployment insurance. We argue that using...

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Conflict-induced displacement and labour market outcomes: evidence from post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina

Kondylis, Florence - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This study uses a longitudinal data source to study the effects of conflict-induced displacement on labour market outcomes for Bosnians in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina. To account for endogeneity in the displacement status, I exploit the fact that the level of violence in the pre-war...

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Transitions in labour market status in the European Union

Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie; Macchiarelli, Corrado - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper presents information on labour market mobility in 23 EU countries, using Eurostat’s Labour Force Survey (LFS) data over the period 1998-2008. More specifically, it discusses alternative measures of labour market churning; including the ease with which individuals can move between...

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Endogenous industry structure in vertical duopoly

Halonen, Maija - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1994

This paper examines integration decisions of successive duopolists. It is shown that qualitatively the same pattern of … integration emerges whether there is Cournot or Bertrand competition in the input market. The degree of integration in the … the fixed integration cost. There jis a tendency for partial integration when one upstream firm is relatively efficient …

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