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Co-worker networks, labour mobility, and productivity growth in regions

Lengyel, Balázs; Eriksson, Rikard - 2015

This paper provides a new empirical perspective for analysing the role of social networks for an economic geography approach on regional economic growth by constructing large-scale networks from employee-employee co-occurrences in plants in the entire Swedish economy 1990-2008. We calculate the...

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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...

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Co-Worker Networks, Labour Mobility and Productivity Growth in Regions

Lengyel, Balázs - 2016

The mobility of workers is an important source of regional dynamics, but the effect of mobility on regional productivity growth is not straightforward, as some firms tend to win while others lose from mobility. In the present paper, we argue that the co-worker networks across plants that are...

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Ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation in the UK: evidence from patents microdata

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (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...

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Urban wage premium increasing with education level: Identification of agglomeration effects for Norway

Stokke, Hildegunn; Rattsø, Jørn; Carlsen, Fredrik - 2012

the agglomeration effect is hard to identify. Recent advances make use of individual level data to separate out sorting … population in Norway with complete description of their education level. The data allow for estimation of the agglomeration … effect for different education groups and the results show that agglomeration economies are increasing with education level …

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Provincial valuations of human capital in urban China, inter-regional inequality and the implicit value of a Guangdong hukou

Zax, Jeffrey - 2016

This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in multiple provinces, comparing the province of maximum predicted earnings to the province of residence and assessing the predicted gains from relocation. The paper performs the...

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Labor Migration, Human Capital Agglomeration and Regional Development in China

Fu, Yuming - 2011

We estimate a skill-based directional migration model to assess the effects of regional human capital agglomeration on … the importance of human capital agglomeration benefits to disparate regional growth trajectories in China …

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House Prices and the Skill Mix of Cities : Testing Models Using the Location of Hispanic Workers

Broxterman, Daniel - 2019

Competing theories have been offered to explain differences in skill mix across cities. Two of these predict housing price effects when strong assumptions of homothetic and homogeneous preferences are relaxed. This paper shows these two housing demand theories taken together imply the college...

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Provincial Valuations of Human Capital in Urban China, Inter-provincial Inequality and the Implicit Value of a Guangdong Hukou

Zax, Jeffrey S. - 2019

This paper assesses regional inequality in urban China. It predicts earnings for each worker in multiple provinces, compares provinces of residence and maximum predicted earnings, and estimates predicted relocation gains. It presents a reference comparison for the U.S. in 1940. Only 7.4% of U.S....

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Does technological growth-induced migration lead to income convergence? The case of India’s early 2000s telecom boom

Dutta, Arnab; Randolph, Gregory - 2022

This paper demonstrates that India’s early 2000s mobile phone service expansion, or the “telecom boom” led to net rural-urban migration of about 13 million individuals out of which 4 million moved for employment. To estimate the effects, we exploit the heterogeneous expansion of telecom...

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