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Ethnic Inventors, Diversity and Innovation in the UK: Evidence from Patents Microdata

Nathan, Max - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2011

Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do … 'ethnicity-innovation' channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via 'star' migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …

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Employment and Technological Change: On the Geography of Labour Market Adjustments

Gagliardi, Luisa - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of technological change on local labour market outcomes in Britain. Using a newly assembled panel database for the period 2000-2007 and a directly observed measure of technological change based on patent records, the analysis suggests that employment levels are...

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Ambition, Human Capital Acquisition and the Metropolitan Escalator

Gordon, Ian - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2012

to valued elements of tacit knowledge, interacting in thick, competitive labour markets. This is partially confirmed with …

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Local Human Capital and Its Impact on Local Employment Chances in Britain

Kaplanis, Ioannis - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2010

This paper examines how high human capital in a locality is associated with the employment outcomes of individuals. A probit model is used to examine how the employment probability of otherwise similar working age males is associated with changes in the share of degree holders in the local area....

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Moving into the Projects: Social Housing Neighbourhoods and School Performance in England

Weinhardt, Felix - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2010

This study estimates the effect of living in a very deprived neighbourhood, as identified by a high density of social housing, on the educational attainment of fourteen years old (9th grade) students in England. Neighbourhoods with markedly high concentrations of social housing have very high...

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Wage Effects from Changes in Local Human Capital in Britain

Kaplanis, Ioannis - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2010

This paper examines the wage effects arising from changing local human capital in the labour market areas of Britain. Employing wage regressions, it is found that individuals' wages are positively associated with changes in the employment shares of high-paid occupation workers in the British...

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Geography or Economics? A Micro-Level Analysis of the Determinants of Degree Choice in the Context of Regional Economic Disparities in the UK

Wales, Philip - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2010

The importance of human capital to the economic performance of a national, regional or local economy is now well established. Labour markets are thought to reward individuals in proportion to their marginal productivity and to encourage an efficient allocation of skilled workers. However, labour...

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Minimum Wages and Schooling: Evidence from the UK's Introduction of a National Minimum Wage

Rice, Patricia - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2010

This paper uses the introduction of the national minimum wage in the UK in April 1999 as a 'natural experiment' to analyse the impact of minimum wages on enrolment in schooling. At the time of its introduction, only workers aged 18 years or more were covered by the legislation. The paper uses...

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Access All Areas? The Impact of Fees and Background on Student Demand for Postgraduate Higher Education in the UK

Wales, Philip - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2013

This paper analyses participation in postgraduate higher education in the UK at the micro-level makes several contributions to the literature. Firstly, it describes trends in postgraduate participation in the UK. Secondly, it introduces a hitherto unavailable dataset of postgraduate tuition fees...

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Do Large Departments Make Academics More Productive? Agglomeration and Peer Effects in Research

Bosquet, Clément; Combes, Pierre-Philippe - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2013

We study the effect of a large set of department characteristics on individual publication records. We control for many individual time-varying characteristics, individual fixed-effects and reverse causality. Department characteristics have an explanatory power that can be as high as that of...

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