In this paper we estimate the importance of local labour structure in the spread of COVID-19 during the first year of the pandemic. We build a unique data set across 6,700 neighbourhoods in England that allows us to distinguish between people living (residents) and people working (workers) in a...

This study explores the characteristics and determinants of innovation of exceptionally innovative small and medium sized UK enterprises. The focus is placed on 'serial' innovators, defined as independent companies with a persistent unusually high frequency of innovations over time. The aim of...

This paper evaluates the potential existence of a low skill equilibrium in the UK. Using data from numerous waves of the National Employer Skills Survey (NESS) we investigate the relationship between skills shortages in firms and the type and intensity of response of firms to their identified...

This article explores whether a relationship exists between the skill shortages that a market faces, and the wages in the market, using both pseudo panel and individual wage equations over the period 2004-2014. Both sets of results suggest that workers in markets with higher levels of skill...