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Haskel J, Slaughter MJ, 2003, Have Falling Tariffs and Transportation Costs Raised US Wage Inequality?, Review of International Economics, Vol: 11, Pages: 630-650
Disney R, Haskel J, Heden Y, 2003, Restructuring and productivity growth in UK manufacturing, ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Vol: 113, Pages: 666-694, ISSN: 0013-0133
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Fabbri F, Haskel JE, Slaughter MJ, 2003, DOES NATIONALITY OF OWNERSHIP MATTER FOR LABOR DEMANDS?, JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION, Vol: 1, Pages: 698-707, ISSN: 1542-4766
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- Citations: 59
Disney R, Haskel J, Heden Y, 2003, Entry, exit and establishment survival in UK manufacturing, JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS, Vol: 51, Pages: 91-112, ISSN: 0022-1821
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Haskel JE, Slaughter MJ, 2003, Have falling tariffs and transportation costs raised US wage inequality?, Review of International Economics, Vol: 11, Pages: 630-650, ISSN: 0965-7576
To gauge the effect of international trade on the rising US skill premium, the paper analyzes the sector bias of price changes induced by changes in US tariffs and transportation costs. It is found that, in both the 1970s and 1980s, cuts in tariffs and transportation cost levels were concentrated in unskilled-intensive sectors. Despite this suggestive evidence, the authors estimate that price changes induced by tariffs or transportation costs mandated a rise in inequality that was mostly statistically insignificant. Thus, they do not find strong evidence that falling tariffs and transport costs, working through price changes, mandated rises in inequality.
Haskel JE, Slaughter MJ, 2002, Does the sector bias of skill-biased technical change explain changing skill premia?, EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, Vol: 46, Pages: 1757-1783, ISSN: 0014-2921
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Barnes M, Haskel J, 2002, Job Creation, Job Destruction and the Contribution of Small Businesses: Evidence for UK Manufacturing
We use the ARD micro level data set for UK manufacturing to document job creation and job destruction (JC&D). Due to data limitations, previous UK studies were unable to use entry and exit in calculations of JC&D and/or were are at the firm rather than establishment/plant level and/or used data that understate the number of small businesses in the economy. Our data can overcome these problems being based on plant and establishment-level data from the UK Census of Production. We compute JC&D levels and rates and the contribution of small businesses for UK manufacturing between 1980 and 1991 and compare our findings with previous UK studies and other countries. We find: a) establishment (plant) job creation and destruction rates of 10.0% and 13.5% (11.2% and 14.7%) respectively, higher than other studies; b) large establishments (plants) are responsible for about 60% (55%) of job destruction; and c) small establishments (plants) are responsible for between 50% and 68% (57% and 70%) of job creation, depending on calculation method.
Bonjour D, Cherkas L, Haskel J, et al., 2002, Returns to Education: Evidence from UK Twins
Haskel JE, Pereira SC, Slaughter MJ, 2002, Does Inward Foreign Direct Investment Boost the Productivity of Domestic Firms?
Are there productivity spillovers from FDI to domestic firms, and, if so, how much should host countries be willing to pay to attract FDI? To examine these questions we use a plant-level panel covering U.K. manufacturing from 1973 through 1992. Across a wide range of specifications, we estimate a significantly positive correlation between a domestic plant's TFP and the foreign-affiliate share of activity in that plant's industry. This is consistent with positive FDI spillovers. We do not generally find significant effects on plant TFP of the foreign-affiliate share of activity in that plant's region. Typical estimates suggest that a 10 percentage-point increase in foreign presence in a U.K. industry raises the TFP of that industry's domestic plants by about 0.5 percent. We also use these estimates to calculate the per-job value of these spillovers. These calculated values appear to be less than per-job incentives governments have granted in recent high-profile cases, in some cases several times less.
Haskel J, Pereira SC, Slaughter MJ, 2002, Does Inward Foreign Direct Investment Boost the Productivity of Domestic Firms?
Haskel J, Martin C, 2001, Technology, wages, and skill shortages: evidence from UK micro data, OXFORD ECONOMIC PAPERS-NEW SERIES, Vol: 53, Pages: 642-658, ISSN: 0030-7653
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Carlin W, Haskel J, Seabright P, 2001, Understanding ‘the essential fact about capitalism’: Markets, competition and creative destruction, National Institute Economic Review, Vol: 175, Pages: 67-84, ISSN: 0027-9501
This paper examines two ways in which competition works in modern capitalist economies to improve productivity. The first is through incentives: encouraging improvements in technology, organisation and effort on the part of existing establishments and firms. The second is through selection: replacing less-productive with more productive establishments and firms, whether smoothly via the transfer of market shares from less to more productive firms, or roughly through the exit of some firms and the entry of others. We report evidence from the UK suggesting that selection is responsible for a large proportion of aggregate productivity growth in manufacturing, and that much of this is due in turn to selection between plants belonging to multi-plant firms. We also investigate whether the nature of the selection process varies across the business cycle and report evidence suggesting that it is less effective in booms and recessions. Finally, although in principle productivity catch-up by low-income countries ought to be easier than innovation at the frontier, in the absence of a well functioning competitive infrastructure (a predicament that characterises many poor countries), selection may be associated with much more turbulence and a lower rate of productivity growth than in relatively prosperous societies. We report results of a survey of firms in transition economies suggesting that, particularly in the former Soviet states (excluding the Baltic states), poor output and productivity performance has not been due to an unwillingness on the part of firms to change and adapt. On the contrary, there has been a great deal of restructuring, much new entry and large reallocations of output between firms; but such activity has been much more weakly associated with improved performance than we would expect in established market economies. © 2001, Sage Publications. All rights reserved.
Haskel J, Slaughter MJ, 2001, Trade, technology and UK wage inequality, ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Vol: 111, Pages: 163-187, ISSN: 0013-0133
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Haskel J, Wolf H, 2001, The law of one price - A case study, SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, Vol: 103, Pages: 545-558, ISSN: 0347-0520
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Disney RF, Haskel J, Heden Westerdahl Y, 2000, Restructuring and Productivity Growth in UK Manufacturing
Haskel J, Sanchis A, 2000, A bargaining model of Farrell inefficiency, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION, Vol: 18, Pages: 539-556, ISSN: 0167-7187
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Haskel JE, 2000, Recent findings on trade, technology and wage inequality, Conference on Policies for Low-Wage Employment and Social Exclusion in Europe, Publisher: EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LTD, Pages: 191-205
Haskel J, 1999, The Trade and Labour Approaches to Wage Inequality, Publisher: Wiley
Haskel J, Heden Y, 1999, Computers and the demand for skilled labour: Industry- and establishment-level panel evidence for the UK, ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Vol: 109, Pages: C68-C79, ISSN: 0013-0133
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Haskel J, 1999, Small firms, contracting-out, computers and wage inequality: Evidence from UK manufacturing, ECONOMICA, Vol: 66, Pages: 1-21, ISSN: 0013-0427
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Slaughter MJ, Haskel J, 1998, Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Wage Inequality?
Haskel J, 1998, Job creation and destruction., ECONOMICA, Vol: 65, Pages: 154-156, ISSN: 0013-0427
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Haskel J, 1998, The skilled wage premium and the growth of small firms in UK manufacturing, Labour, Vol: 12, Pages: 221-238, ISSN: 1121-7081
We document the role of small firms in explaining the growth of the skilled/unskilled wage premium in UK manufacturing over the 1980s. Our major findings are (i) the share of manufacturing employment in small firms' (0-99) employees has risen by 35 percent over this period; (ii) small firms pay more unequal wages than do large firms: the non-manual/manual wage premium is 1.53 in small firms and 1.50 in firms over 1500 workers; (iii) the growth in small firms over the period explains about 20 percent of the rise in the skilled/unskilled wage premium.
Haskel J, Kersley B, Martin C, 1997, Labour market flexibility and employment adjustment: Micro evidence form UK establishments, OXFORD ECONOMIC PAPERS-NEW SERIES, Vol: 49, Pages: 362-379, ISSN: 0030-7653
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- Citations: 14
Haskel J, Scaramozzino P, 1997, Do other firms matter in oligopolies?, JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS, Vol: 45, Pages: 27-45, ISSN: 0022-1821
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HASKEL J, SANCHIS A, 1995, PRIVATISATION AND X-INEFFICIENCY - A BARGAINING APPROACH, JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS, Vol: 43, Pages: 301-321, ISSN: 0022-1821
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HASKEL J, MARTIN C, SMALL I, 1995, PRICE, MARGINAL COST AND THE BUSINESS-CYCLE, OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS, Vol: 57, Pages: 25-41, ISSN: 0305-9049
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HASKEL J, JUKES R, 1995, SKILLED AND UNSKILLED EMPLOYMENT IN UK MANUFACTURING OVER THE 1980S, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANPOWER, Vol: 16, Pages: 36-52, ISSN: 0143-7720
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