This thesis will discuss how fragmented UK firms are and how they have changed between 1997-2008. We examine possible explanations for fragmentation and try to capture the effects of fragmentation on employment and labour productivity. We consider an organisational and a spatial dimension of fragmentation for the manufacturing and the tradable service sector. The data used comes from the Business Structure Database - a firm and plant level database which captures 99 percent of UK economic activity.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:559703 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Riegler, Robert |
| Publisher | University of Nottingham |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12770/ |
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