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Michaels, Guy; Zhi, Xiaojia - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

Do firms choose inputs that minimize their cost of production, ignoring the attitudes of their owners and employees? We examine this question using an episode of worsening relations between the US and France: from February 2002 to March 2003, France's favorability rating in US public opinion...

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Productivity, Wages and Marriage: The Case of Major League Baseball

Cornaglia, Francesca; Feldman, Naomi E. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

The effect of marriage on productivity and, consequently, wages has been long debated in economics. A primary explanation for the impact of marriage on wages has been through its impact on productivity, however, there has been no direct evidence for this. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap...

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Not So Dissatisfied After All? The Impact of Union Coverage on Job Satisfaction

Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

The links between unionisation and job satisfaction remain controversial. In keeping with the existing literature we find strong statistically significant negative correlations between unionisation and overall job satisfaction. However, in contrast to the previous literature we find that once...

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Immigrant Enclaves and Crime

Bell, Brian; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

There is conflicting evidence on the consequences of immigrant neighbourhood segregation for individual outcomes, with various studies finding positive, negative or insubstantial effects. In this paper, we document the evolution of immigrant segregation in England over the last 40 years. We show...

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What Happens When Employers are Free to Discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League

Bryson, Alex; Chevalier, Arnaud - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Research on employers' hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers …, where employers can freely exercise their taste for racial discrimination in terms of hiring and firing. The setting allows … us to eliminate co-worker, consumer-based and statistical discrimination as potential sources of discrimination, thus …

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Racial Segregation Patterns in Selective Universities

Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban; Hussey, Andrew; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

This paper examines sorting into interracial friendships at selective universities. We show significant friendship segregation, particularly for blacks. Indeed, black friendships are no more diverse in college than in high school despite the colleges blacks attend having substantially smaller...

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Explaining Cross-Racial Differences in the Educational Gender Gap

Aucejo, Esteban - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

The sizable gender gap in college enrolment, especially among African Americans, constitutes a puzzling empirical regularity that may have serious consequences on marriage markets, male labor force participation and the diversity of college campuses. For instance, only 35.7 percent of all...

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Trust and Racial Income Inequality: Evidence from the U.S.

Tesei, Andrea - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial groups (racial income inequality). I find that...

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The Impact of Immigration on the Local Labor Market Outcomes of Blue Collar Workers: Panel Data Evidence

Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

Using a large administrative French panel data set for 1976-2007, we examine how low- educated immigration affects the wages, employment, occupations and locations of blue-collar native workers. The natives in the sample are initially in occupations heterogeneous in the presence of immigrants,...

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In brief: Mother tongue:the economics of language learning

Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

Javier Ortega and Gregory Verdugo look at the drivers of language assimilation in the English- and French-majority cities in Canada.

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