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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 via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …

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Research and development, spillovers, innovation systems, and the genesis of regional growth in Europe

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Crescenzi, Riccardo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

regional innovation systems, and knowledge and socio-economic spillovers. This approach allows the discrimination between the …Research on the impact of innovation on regional economic performance in Europe has fundamentally followed three …) the study of the existence and efficiency of regional innovation systems; and (3) the examination of the geographical …

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Digital goods and the new economy

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …

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Can pay regulation kill? Panel data evidence on the effect of labor markets on hospital performance

Hall, Emma; Propper, Carol; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

Labor market regulation can have harmful unintended consequences. In many markets, especially for public sector workers, pay is regulated to be the same for individuals across heterogeneous geographical labor markets. We would predict that this will mean labor supply problems and potential falls...

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Do bad risks know it? Experimental evidence on optimism and adverse selection

Coelho, Marta; de Meza, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Subjects who overestimate their performance in experimental tasks unrelated to travel are less willing to insure against failing in the task and also less inclined to buy travel insurance. This suggests intrinsic optimism influences insurance demand and diminishes adverse selection

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When pressure sinks performance: evidence from diving competitions

Garbi, Elni; Genakos, Christos; Pagliero, Mario - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

Tournaments are designed to enhance participants’ effort and productivity. However, ranking near the top may increase psychological pressure and reduce performance. We empirically study the impact of interim rank on performance using data from international diving tournaments. We find that...

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The future of the German industrial relations model

Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

The paper examines recent evidence on the erosion of the German industrial relations model. Although its coverage has declined, much of this has occurred in smaller and newer establishments, and compared with Britain, it has remained solid in the areas of Germany's traditional industrial...

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Explaining cross-country differences in productivity: is it efficiency or factor endowments?

Gerba, Eddie; Pikoulakis, Emmanuel V. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

In this paper we develop a two-sector growth model of optimizing agents and apply this model to the data for the purpose of addressing the two interrelated questions that preoccupy the literature on development and growth accounting, namely: (1) What determines sustained growth and (2) What...

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Ambition, human capital acquisition and the metropolitan escalator

Gordon, Ian R. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

elements of tacit knowledge, interacting in thick, competitive labour markets. This is partially confirmed with analyses of …

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How far do England’s second-order cities emulate London as human-capital ‘escalators’?

Champion, Tony; Coombes, Mike; Gordon, Ian R. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

In the urban resurgence accompanying the growth of the knowledge economy, second-order cities appear to be losing out …

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