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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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Self-employment and entrepreneurship in urban and rural labour markets

Faggio, Giulia; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We study the link between self-employment and some salient aspects of entrepreneurship – namely business creation and … not evident when focussing on entrepreneurship. Finally, we show that the misalignment between self-employment and our … proxies for entrepreneurship in rural areas disappears once we account for local labour market conditions. Our results suggest …

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Productivity growth and employment: theory and panel estimates

Pissarides, Christopher; Vallanti, Giovanna - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Theoretical predictions of the effect of TFP growth on employment are ambiguous, and depend on the extent to which new technology is embodied in new jobs. We estimate a model for employment, wages and investment with an annual panel for the United States, Japan and Europe and find that TFP...

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The Conflict Trap in the Greek Civil War 1946-1949: An economic approach

Christodoulakis, Nicos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

The paper provides a quantitative analysis of the armed confrontation that took place in Greece between the Communist Party and the Centre-Right Government during 1946-1949. Using monthly data for battle casualties a dynamic Lotka-Volterra framework is estimated, pointing to the existence of a...

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Lisbon five years later: what future for European employment and growth?

Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

At the Lisbon summit of 2000 the European Union (EU) set an agenda for making Europe the most competitive economy in the world. The targets that were set then are unlikely to be achieved. European countries need to concentrate on change in the lower productivity, more labour-intensive service...

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Medicines in parallel trade in the European Union: a gravity specification

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Kanavos, Panos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

While recent research has explored the phenomenon of drug parallel trade in regulated environments such as the European Union (EU), or the European Economic Area, little is known about the mechanisms that explain its origin or the role of the distribution chain in exporting and importing...

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Productivity growth and the role of ICT in the United Kingdom: an industry view, 1970-2000

Oulton, Nicholas; Srinivasan, Sylaja - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

We use a new industry-level dataset to quantify the role of ICT in explaining productivity growth in the UK, 1970-2000. The dataset is for 34 industries covering the whole economy (31 in the market sector). Using growth accounting, we find that ICT capital played an increasingly important, and...

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Investing for prosperity: skills, infrastructure and innovation

Besley, Timothy; Coelho, Miguel; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

What policies and institutions are needed to sustain long-run growth in the UK? We describe an optimistic story of the UK economy over the past 30 years. From the late 1970s, the UK reversed a century of relative decline in terms of per capita GDP with our main counterparts in the US, France and...

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The conflict trap in the Greek Civil War 1946-1949: an economic approach

Christodoulakis, Nicos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

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Anthropometric dividends of Czechoslovakia’s break up

Costa-Font, Joan; Kossarova, Lucia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide institutional reform on well-being. Changes in population heights are regarded as virtuous pointers of well-being improvements in psycho-social environments, which improve with...

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