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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320414
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The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities: Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection
Combes, PierrePhilippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2009
Firms are more productive on average in larger cities. Two explanations have been offered: agglomeration economies … (larger cities promote interactions that increase productivity) and firm selection (larger cities toughen competition allowing … selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in larger cities left truncates the productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008692886
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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2014
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729220
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Urban Growth Drivers in a Europe of Sticky People and Implicit Boundaries
Cheshire, Paul; Magrini, Stefano - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2008
imply that cities in Europe form nationalrather than a single continental system. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037485
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The Urban Wage Growth Premium: Sorting or Learning?
D'Costa, Sabine; Overman, Henry G. - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2013
sorting on the basis of unobservables we find no evidence of an urban wage growth premium. Experience in cities does have some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659502
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Top Team Demographics, Innovation and Business Performance: Findings from English Firms and Cities 2008-9
Nathan, Max - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2013
diversity and co-ethnic networks play? And do cities amplify or dampen these channels? I explore using a rich dataset of over 6 … (particularly big cities) may amplify any demographics-performance effects. I create a repeat cross-section of firms from the RDA … diverse' probably result from external constraints. Further tests for intervening effects of capital cities, metropolitan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617520
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The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Redding, Stephen J.; Sturm, Daniel M. - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2012
This paper develops a quantitative model of city structure to separate agglomeration forces, dispersion forces and fundamentals as determinants of location choices. The model remains tractable and amenable to empirical analysis because of stochastic shocks to worker productivity, which yield a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570489
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Here Be Startups: Exploring a young digital cluster in Inner East London
Nathan, Max; Vandore, Emma - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2013
The digital industries cluster known as 'Silicon Roundabout' has been quietly growing in East London since the 1990s. Now rebranded 'Tech City', it is now the focus of huge public and government attention. National and local policymakers wish to accelerate the local area's development: such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010705898
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Immigrant Diversity and Economic Development in Cities: A Critical Review
Kemeny, Thomas - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2013
This paper reviews a growing literature investigating how 'immigrant' diversity relates to urban economic performance. As distinct from the labor-supply focus of much of the economics of immigration, this paper reviews work that examines how growing heterogeneity in the composition of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010718635
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The Long Term Impacts of Migration in British Cities: Diversity, Wages, Employment and Prices
Nathan, Max - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2011
British cities are becoming more culturally diverse, with migration a main driver. Is this growing diversity good for … urban economies? This paper explores, using a new 16-year panel of UK cities. Over time, net migration affects both local …, suggest both processes are operating in British cities. Long-term industrial decline and casualisation of entry-level jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008867522