This paper examines potential explanations for recent declines in teenage pregnancy, in particular, the promotion of long acting reversible contraception (LARCs). We estimate models of teenage conception, birth and abortion rates using panel data from England which allows us to control for...

This paper extends the existing literature on FDI and wage inequality. We do this in two ways. Firstly, we incorporate more precise measures of inward investment into the model, by allowing for differences in the effects between horizontal and vertical FDI. Secondly, after establishing the...

This paper focuses on the role of absorptive capacity in determining whether or not domestic firms benefit from productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments located at different quantiles of the productivity...