The economic convergence of American regions has greatly slowed, and rates of long-term nonemployment have even been diverging. Simultaneously, the rate of non-employment for …
Many development policies, such as placement of infrastructure or local economic development schemes, are “place-based.” Such policies are generally intended to stimulate …
WF Maloney, G Nayyar - The World Bank Research Observer, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Governments are resource-and bandwidth-constrained, and hence need to prioritize productivity-enhancing policies. To do so requires information on the nature and magnitude …
This paper explores the impact of immigrants on the imports, exports and productivity of service-producing firms in the UK Immigrants may substitute for imported intermediate inputs …
This book had its genesis more than 15 years ago with the realisation that, despite significant engagement with the potential offered by technology, the university seemed …
Identifying policy-relevant treatment effects from randomized experiments requires the absence of spillovers between participants and nonparticipants (SUTVA) or variation in …
A Salvatori - Journal for labour market research, 2018 - Springer
This paper studies the contribution of different skill groups to the polarisation of the UK labour market. We show that the large increase in graduate numbers contributed to the …
Prior research emphasizes the centrality of audit offices in understanding auditing practices, and documents significant interoffice variation in audit outcomes based on industry expertise …
Volumes have been written about the value of more and better education. But is there sufficient evidence to support the commonly held belief that we, as individuals and as a …