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Oxford Review of Economic Policy:

The persistent consequences of adverse shocks: how the 1970s shaped UK regional inequality

The economic shocks experienced by the UK economy in the 1970s brought major changes in the spatial distribution of employment rates in the UK. This paper traces the long-run implications of these changes, suggesting tha...Read more...

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper

Minimum Wages and Schooling: Evidence from the UK's Introduction of a National Minimum Wage

This paper uses the introduction of the national minimum wage in the UK in April 1999 as a `natural experiment? to analyse the impact of minimum wages on enrolment in schooling. At the time of its introduction, only work...Read more...

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Policy Paper

Resurgent Cities and Regional Economic Performance

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CEP discussion paper

Economic Linkages Across Space

We develop a diagrammatic framework that can be used to study the economic linkages between regions or cities. Hitherto, such linkages have not been the primary focus of either the theoretical or empirical literatures. W...Read more...

CentrePiece article

Productivity: understanding regional differences

What drives variations in economic performance across Britain? Patricia Rice and Tony Venables find that access to cities has a big influence on regional productivity....Read more...

CEP discussion paper

Spatial Determinants of Productivity: Analysis for the Regions of Great Britain

This paper uses NUTS3 sub-regional data for Great Britain to analyse the determinants of spatial variations in income and productivity. We decompose the spatial variation of earnings into a productivity effect and an occ...Read more...