, and the UK, chosen for their distinctive legal and institutional arrangements, within a common European Union context. It … for information provision, the law and institutions complement one another less; in the UK, there are contradictory …

We estimate the impact of a carbon tax on manufacturing plants using panel data from the UK production census. Our …

market. On balance, the evidence for the UK labour market suggests that fears about adverse consequences of rising … much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on average. Immigrants, especially in recent years, tend to be younger and … better educated than the UK-born and less likely to be unemployed. Future migration trends will, as ever, depend on relative …

from the UK production census. Our identification strategy builds on the comparison of trends in outcomes between plants …

Britain. However, US firms that have only recently entered the UK market are found to be significantly more energy intensive … at an order of magnitude corresponding to the between country US-UK gap. This difference vanishes with an increased … duration of stay in the UK; however, with a considerable time lag. This suggests firstly, that barriers to knowledge diffusion …