How does entry affect productivity growth of incumbents? In this paper we exploit policy reforms in the United Kingdom that changed entry conditions by opening up the U.K. economy during the 1980s and panel data on British establishments to shed light on this question.
This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two issues neglected in the existing literaturethe role of multinationals in service sectors and the importance of R&D activity conducted by foreign multinationals.
Why have some countries done so much better than others over the recent past? In order to shed new light on this issue, this paper provides a decomposition of the change in the distribution of output-per-worker across countries over the period 1960-98
This study analyses the macro-economic impact of product market reforms undertaken in the European Union over the 1980s and 1990s by examining a large number of regulations and reforms across EU countries.
This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership andproductivity, paying particular attention to two issues neglected in the existing literature the role of multinationals in service sectors and the importance of R&D activity conductedby foreign multinationals.
This paper presents a model of international trade that features heterogeneous firms, relative endowment differences across countries, and consumer taste for variety.
This lecture, for the IFS Public Economics Lectures series, focuses on why there is a productivity gap between the UK and some other countries, notably the US, why we want to reward R & D and ways to do this through the tax system.
The Chancellor, in his pre-budget report in December, re-emphsized the Government's commitment to close the productivity gap that exists between Britian and its competitor economies.
We compare the importance of occupational gender segregation for the gender wage gap in East and West Germany in 1995 using a sample of social-security wage records for full-time workers.
Considering immigrant earnings in the context of post-arrival human capital investment implies: cohort quality should be defined in terms of the present value of the whole earnings profile; and, an appropriate definition of macro effects is obtained using the earnings profile of the native
