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transactions in London offices sold between 2000 and 2011 courtesy of the Estates Gazette and Real Capital Analytics supplemented …
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Can state-owned banks spur development? Gerschenkron (1962) identified the State Bank of the Rus- sian Empire as the main institutional driver of the country's catch-up industrialization. In this paper, we test this assertion by evaluating the outcome of a policy experiment (1892-1903) under the...
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We use data from British Cities to examine the extent of the urban wage growth premium. We demonstrate the existence of a premium for wage levels, but not for wage growth. City living does have some impact on wage growth, however. Specifically, we show that workers who have at some point lived...
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Career progression is often associated with migration and/or industry change, but the relationship between the two, and their effect on the earnings and career satisfaction of recent graduates are not well understood. We analyse the relationship between migration and inter-industry mobility...
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theory of individual investment decisions allows us to analyze self-selection patterns across differences in wages and …Borjas (1987, 1991 and 1994) developed the self-selection theory, applying Roy's model (1951) to migration studies. He … the individual investment decision theory (Human Capital theory), applying simulated data by Monte-Carlo method. The …
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While there is a wealth of literature dealing with the spatial nature of knowledge and its transferral, I argue that the underlying mechanisms have not been sufficiently understood. Existing research relating the geography of inflows to firm productivity does not adequately address firm and...
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analyse the link between sectoral resource allocation, low productivity growth and stagnant real wages. My results suggest … raises growth of technology, labor productivity and real wages. I show, however, that a slowdown in productivity and … stagnation of real wages can in this setting constitute two sides of the same coin as a result of the shift in employment: In the …
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