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Conception and Contraception failures in a life cycle model of fecundity, fertility and female labor supply

Lavado, Pablo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2011

The effect of fertility on female labor supply has been a topic widely studied. Literature on treatment effects have … estimated the effect of second and higher order births on female labor supply. Nevertheless, the effect of the first born child … labor force participation and contraception decisions. Preliminary results considering unobserved heterogeneity in tastes …

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Fear of Labor Rigidities – The Role of Expectations in Employment Growth in Peru

Lavado, Pablo; Yamada, Gustavo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2013

paper aims to analyze the role of expectations on peruvian formal and informal labor market; using news as our … identification variable. We use the monthly number of news related to the approval of the General Labor Law (GLL), a proposal … entailing future stronger labor rigidities, from January 2001 to May 2012. Using the Permanent Employment Survey (EPE), we find …

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Labor Market Discrimination in Lima, Peru: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Galarza, Francisco; Yamada, Gustavo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2011

We analyze labor discrimination in Peru, a fast-growing country where much anecdotal evidence suggests the presence of …

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The effect of a child on female work when family planning may fail

Lavado, Pablo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2011

information on participation, contraception and children. Key factors driving the importance of the effect are education, labor …

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Did Globalization Aid Industrial Development In Colonial India? A Study of Knowledge Transfer in the Iron Industry

Roy, Tirthankar - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

The paper explores the link between international economic integration and technological capability in colonial India. The example of iron industry shows that many new ideas and skills flowed into India from Europe, but not all met with commercial success. The essay suggests that in those fields...

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The Limits of Social Democracy?

Clark, Tom - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

This paper is a revised version of an Economic History thesis submitted to the London School of Economics in September 2000.The main text assumes analytical rather than chronological form, and, to avoid breaking the flow of the argument, it refers to persons, Labour Party structures and...

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The formation of “Modern” Economics: Engineering and Ideology

Morgan, Mary S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

Economics has always had two connected faces in its Western tradition. In Adam Smith's eighteenth century, as in John Stuart Mill's nineteenth, these might be described as the science of political economy and the art of economic governance. The former aimed to describe the workings of the...

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The ‘Labour Question’ in Nineteenth Century Brazil: railways, export agriculture and labour scarcity

Lamounier, Lucia - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

This paper examines changing patterns of labour relations innineteenth-century Brazil associated with the building of railways andexpansion of export agriculture. It addresses the 1850s-1880s period,decades when the `labour question' became a pressing issue forcontemporaries. The extinction of...

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Pensions: Challenges and Choices: What next?

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

The analysis in the Report of the Pensions Commission (UK Pensions Commission2004, henceforth referred to as the Report), is sound, the data a wonderful treasure trove, thepresentation particularly clear, and the diagnosis correct. This comment takes the Report’sanalysis as given, and sets out...

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Paying for higher education: What policies, in what order?

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

Building on earlier work (Barr 2004a), this paper discusses the role of tuition fees in paying for teaching at universities in England, though much of the analysis applies also to the rest of the UK and to OECD countries. There is no discussion of financing research. The paper addresses three...

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