This paper uses the Workplace Employee Relations Survey panel for 1990-1998 to investigate the relationship between foreign ownership, skill-structure and use of microelectronic technologies in British establishments. We find that foreign-owned establishments are early adopters of new...

The National Institute produces four World Economy forecasts each year based on the output of the Global Model, NiGEM. We have rebased and expanded the model. The trade and competitiveness system is now based on the pattern of trade in 1987, and we have adapted the model in order that we can...