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Neighbourhood effects in small neighbourhoods

Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper uses data on a sample of Australian teenagers to test for neighbourhood effects on school dropout rates. The data allows us to test for neighbourhood effects at two different spatial scales. We find that educational composition of the larger neighbourhood can influence the dropout...

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Do organisational climate and strategic orientation moderate the relationship between human resource management practices and productivity?

Neal, Andrew; West, Michael A.; Patterson, Malcolm G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Contingency formulations of Human Resource Management (HRM) theory suggest that the effectiveness of HRM practices should vary across firms. This study examined whether the relationship between HRM practices and productivity in manufacturing companies is contingent upon organizational climate...

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Neighbourhood effects in small neighbourhoods

Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

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Employment pathways and wage progression for mothers in low-skilled work: evidence from three British datasets

Bastagli, Francesca; Stewart, Kitty - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

encouraging women back into work when their children were relatively young (pre-school age), first through tax credits and …

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Pathways and penalties: mothers’ employment trajectories and wage growth in the Families and Children Study

Bastagli, Francesca; Stewart, Kitty - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper uses panel data from the British Families and Children Study to analyse the employment patterns of women … with children and the ways in which part-time work and interruptions in paid employment influence the wages of working … higher-skilled and lower-skilled mothers and for mothers of younger and older children. We find that mothers follow a wide …

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The impact of an innovative human resource function on firm performance: the moderating role of financing strategy

Knight-Turvey, Neal; Neal, Andrew; West, Michael A.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

The current study examined the impact of the human resource function and financing strategy on the financial performance of 104 UK manufacturing firms. Hypotheses are drawn from a resource-based perspective on human resource management and a financial theory perspective on capital structure....

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The influence of neighbourhood effects on education decisions in a nationally funded education system : the case of Australia

Overman, Henry G.; Heath, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

Empirical papers studying the effects of neighbourhood characteristics on socio-economic variables have predominantly used US data. We argue that the local nature of the US schooling system means that neighbourhood effects on education decisions may act through fiscal or social channels. We use...

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