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CEP discussion paper
The public sector and the misallocation of labor: evidence from a policy experiment in India

State-owned enterprises are often thought to represent a distortion in the labor market, but the implied efficiency losses have not been carefully estimated. This paper presents the first rigorous quantification of the a...Read more...

Matthew Baird, A.V. Chari, Shanthi Nataraj, Alexander Rothenberg, Shqiponja Telhaj and L. Alan Winters

23 January 2019

CEP discussion paper
Trade as an Engine of Creative Destruction: Mexican Experience with Chinese Competition

This paper exploits the surge in Chinese exports from 1994 to 2004 as a natural experiment to evaluate the effects of a unilateral low wage trade and competition shock to producers in Mexico. We find that this shock caus...Read more...

Leonardo Iacovone, Ferdinand Rauch and L. Alan Winters

September 2010

CentrePiece article
Small Isn't Beautiful: the Cost Disadvantages of Small Remote Economies

Small remote economies like Anguilla and Vanuatu face huge competitive challenges, not least the higher costs of doing business. L Alan Winters and Pedro Martins measure the size of their cost disadvantages and explore p...Read more...

Pedro Martins and L. Alan Winters

June 2005

CentrePiece article
North and South

Joining the European Union had a big impact on the geography of UK trade and manufacturing. Henry Overman and Alan Winters trace the continuing effects of that decision on the North-South divide....Read more...

Henry Overman and L. Alan Winters

October 2004

CEP discussion paper
Is the Medical Brain Drain Beneficial? Evidence from Overseas Doctors in the UK

The ¿beneficial brain drain¿ hypothesis suggests that skilled migration can be good for a sending country because the incentives it creates for training increase that country¿s supply of skilled labour. To work, this hyp...Read more...

Simon Commander, Mari Kangasniemi and L. Alan Winters

February 2004

CEP discussion paper
The Geography of UK International Trade

This paper examines how the geography of UK international trade has changed since the UK¿s accession to the European Economic Community using a newly constructed data set that gives a detailed breakdown of the UK¿s impor...Read more...

Henry Overman and L. Alan Winters

January 2004

CEP discussion paper
Trade Shocks and Industrial Location: the Impact of EEC Accession on the UK

This paper combines detailed production data (from the ARD) with international trade data by port to examine the impact of accession to the EEC on the location of UK manufacturing. The paper has two main objectives. The ...Read more...

Henry Overman and L. Alan Winters

November 2003