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CEP discussion paper

The shift to remote work lessens wage-growth pressure

The recent shift to remote work raised the amenity value of employment. As compensation adjusts to share the amenity-value gains with employers, wage-growth pressures moderate. We find empirical support for this mechanis...Read more...

Journal article

Cambridge Journal of Economics:

Profitability of small- and medium-sized enterprises in Marshall?s time: sector and spatial heterogeneity in the nineteenth century

New data on profit heterogeneity of small- and medium-sized firms for 1861?81 in England and Wales are used to reinterpret Marshall's contemporary insights. Profit level differences are chiefly explained by location, mai...Read more...

Journal article

Business History:

Changes in Victorian entrepreneurship in England and Wales 1851-1911: methodology and business population estimates

The full population of England and Wales employers and own-account business proprietors is estimated using population censuses 1851?1911. The main contribution of the article is a method of mixed single imputation to ove...Read more...

Journal article

Business History:

The population of non-corporate business proprietors in England and Wales 1891?1911

This article uses population censuses to provide the first consistent counts of the population of business proprietors for 1891?1911. After appropriate adjustments for imperfect Census design the article confirms the per...Read more...