Relative wages vary considerably across regions of the United Kingdom, with skill-abundant regions exhibiting lower skill premia than skill-scarce regions. This paper shows that the location of economic activity is correlated with the variation in relative wages. U.K. regions with low skill...

This paper considers whether offshoring has been a contributing factor to the increase in the wage gap between lower and higher skilled workers. It shows that offshoring was not a driver of the increasing skills premium in the United Kingdom between 1992 and 2004. On the contrary, the wage gap...

This paper considers whether offshoring has been a contributing factor to the increase in the wage gap between lower and higher skilled workers. It shows that offshoring was not a driver of the increasing skills premium in the United Kingdom between 1992 and 2004. On the contrary, the wage gap...

In this paper we investigate the relative importance of net exchanges of skills embodied in intra-industry and inter-industry trade for the UK's trade with some middle income countries. We also separately measure the net exchanges of skills embodied in vertical and horizontal intra-industry...

Inclusivity is perhaps the single most important human need to facilitate and demonstrate fairness for all members in an open and free society. When this principle need is compromised by appearances of unscrupulous self-interested privileged elites to perpetuate a systemic widening disparity...

Relative wages vary considerably across regions of the United Kingdom, with skill-abundant regions exhibiting lower skill premia than skill-scarce regions. This paper shows that the location of economic activity is correlated with the variation in relative wages. U.K. regions with low skill...