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Does self-employment measure entrepreneurship? evidence from Great Britain

Faggio, Giulia; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Research on entrepreneurship often uses information on self-employment to proxy for business creation and innovative …

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Accounting for big city growth in low paid occupations: immigration and/or service class consumption

Gordon, Ian; Kaplanis, Ioannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Growth of 'global cities' in the 1980s was supposed to have involved an occupational polarisation, including growth of low paid service jobs. Though held to be untrue for European cities, at the time, some such growth did emerge in London a decade later than first reported for New York. The...

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Great Britain's second-order city regions in recessions, 1978-2010

Champion, Tony; Townsend, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

While it is now accepted that the 2008-09 recession accentuated regional differences in Britain, it is more difficult to identify the role of major cities, especially over a longer time scale. Using previously established methods focussed on employment, this paper assesses the record of nine...

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The territorial dynamics of innovation in China and India

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Storper, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This article analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is …. Innovative areas in China, rather than generate knowledge spillovers, seem to produce strong backwash effects. In India, by …

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One third of the world's growth and inequality

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper studies growth and inequality in China and India – two economies that account for a third of the world … countries. For personal income inequalities in a China-India universe, the forces assuming first-order importance are …

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Happiness in transition: the case of Kyrgyzstan

Namazie, Ceema; Sanfey, Peter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

We analyse self-reported measures of satisfaction with life in a transition country, Kyrgyzstan, using 1993 household survey data. We test whether higher levels of satisfaction are associated with greater economic well-being. This hypothesis is strongly supported by the data. Unhappiness is...

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Job destruction, job creation and unemployment in transition countries: what can we learn?

Faggio, Giulia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Sixteen years into the transition, the problem of high joblessness has not been solved. Of the three explanations commonly discussed (i.e. ongoing reallocation; finished reallocation with redundant labour; wrong choice of institutional framework), we concentrated on the ongoing reallocation...

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Naivete, projection bias, and habit formation in gym attendance

Acland, Dan; Levy, Matthew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We develop a model capturing habit formation, projection bias, and present bias in an intertemporal-choice setting, and conduct a field experiment to identify its main parameters. We elicit subjects' pre- and post-treatment predictions of post-treatment gym attendance, using a habit-formation...

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Unemployment insurance and cultural transmission: theory and application to European unemployment

Michau, Jean-Baptiste - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This paper emphasizes the two-way causality between the provision of unemployment insurance and the cultural transmission of work ethic. Values affect the size of the moral-hazard problem and, hence, the policy to be implemented. Conversely, when parents rationally choose how much effort to...

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Trust and racial income inequality: evidence from the U.S.

Tesei, Andrea - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial groups (racial income inequality). I find that...

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