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In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country …
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productivity but not necessarily on its long run growth rate. I therefore predict that the UK will eventually return to the growth …The productivity performance of the UK economy in the period 1990-2007 was excellent. Based entirely on pre-crisis data …, and using a two-sector growth model, I project the future growth rate of GDP per hour in the market sector to be 2.61% p …
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productivity in the UK while leaving the long run growth rate unaffected. Based entirely on pre-crisis data, and using a two …-sector growth model, I project the future growth rate of GDP per hour in the market sector to be 2.61% p.a. Based on a cross …
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Guy Michaels and colleagues show how new technologies are polarising the labour market, with the middle-skilled losing out most
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We revisit Western Europe’s record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater total factor productivity gains. These (relatively) high rates of … capital accumulation and TFP growth reflect convergence along two margins. One margin (between industry) is a massive …
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Individuals and business owners engage in an increasingly complex array of financial decisions that are critical for their success and well-being. Yet a growing literature documents that in both developed and developing countries, a large fraction of the population is unprepared to make these...
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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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Entrepreneurs are believed to be the ultimate engine of modern economic systems. Yet, the study of entrepreneurship … entrepreneur. This suggests that, if the JAT Attitude matters for entrepreneurship, it is an innate and time-invariant individual …
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which international financial integration can affect entrepreneurship (a foreign direct investment channel and a capital …
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their attention to the long-term effects of diversity on productivity. Yet little is known about these issues. This paper …
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