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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...

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Has ICT polarized skill demand? Evidence from eleven countries over 25 years

Michaels, Guy; Natraj, Ashwini; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We test the hypothesis that information and communication technologies (ICT) “polarize” labor markets, by increasing demand for the highly educated at the expense of the middle educated, with little effect on low-educated workers. Using data on the US, Japan, and nine European countries from...

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Technological innovation and economic performance in the United Kingdom

Nickell, S. J.; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

due to a weakness in technological innovation despite a high quality science base. This includes comparatively low and …

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Is Poland the next Spain?

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

efficiently. The other margin (within industry) reflects capital deepening and technology catchup at the industry level. In …

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The evolution of inequality in productivity and wages: panel data evidence

Faggio, Giulia; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

There has been a remarkable increase in wage inequality in the US, UK and many other countries over the past three decades. A significant part of this appears to be within observable groups (such as age-gender-skill cells). A generally untested implication of many theories rationalizing the...

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Changes in wage inequality

Machin, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We examine trends in wage inequality in the US and other countries over the past four decades. We show that there has been a secular increase in the 90-50 wage differential in the US and the UK since the late 1970s. By contrast the 50-10 differential rose mainly in the 1980s and flattened or...

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Factor price equalization in the UK?

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

differences, unobserved region- industry factor quality differences and variation in production technology across industries. We … findings, including multiple cones of diversification, region-industry technology differences, agglomeration and increasing …

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The shrinking middle

Michaels, Guy; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Guy Michaels and colleagues show how new technologies are polarising the labour market, with the middle-skilled losing out most

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Wage inequality, technology and trade: 21st Century evidence

Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

good fraction of thisinequality growth is due to technology-related increases in the demand for skilled workersoutstripping … clerks, leaving the demand for the lowest skilled service tasks largely unaffected.Finally, I argue that technology is partly …

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Changes in healthcare professional work afforded by technology: the introduction of a national electronic patient record in an English hospital

Petrakaki, Dimitra; Klecun, Ela; Cornford, Tony - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This article considers changes in healthcare professional work afforded by technology. It uses the sociology of … professionals’ literature together with a theory of affordances to examine how and when technology allows change in healthcare … materiality of technology. Two main lines of argument are developed here. First, that technological affordances do not solely lie …

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