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British jobs for British workers? UK industrial action and free movement of services in EU law

Kilpatrick, Claire - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

The European Court of Justice’s new approach to posting of workers is explored in light of recent UK industrial action. Four doctrinal positions are identified and probed: the host-state standards posted workers can enjoy, the role of collective standards and action to set and enforce...

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Is there a human right not to be a trade union member?: labour rights under the European Convention on Human Rights

Mantouvalou, Virginia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper examines the protection of labour rights in the context of civil and political rights documents and explores the compatibility of closed shop arrangements with human rights law. It contributes to the relevant debates in two ways. First, it seeks to examine how the “integrated...

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Life after work: privacy and dismissal

Mantouvalou, Virginia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This article addresses the issue of termination of employment because of the conduct of the employee in her leisure time, in the light of the human right to private life. It explores the impact on the retention of employment of activities taking place outside the workplace and outside working...

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Is child work necessary?

Bhalotra, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper investigates why children work by studying the wage elasticity of child labour supply. Incorporating subsistence constraints in to a model of labour supply, we show that a negative wage elasticity favours the hypothesis that poverty compels work whereas a positive wage elasticity...

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Does the labour market explain lower female schooling in India?

Gandhi Kingdon, Geeta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market …. Using the Blinder-Oaxaca method, the gross gender difference in earnings is decomposed into the part that is explained by …

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Offline social identity and online chat partner selection

Helsper, Ellen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

-efficacy differed significantly between boys and girls when youth and gender identities were emphasized but not when stressing personal …

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Top team demographics, innovation and business performance: findings from English firms and cities 2008-9

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

National Business Survey. I construct measures of diversity and sameness across ethnicity and gender 'bases', alongside …

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Continuity and change in pathways to young adult disadvantage: results from a British birth cohort

Hobcraft, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

A life-course account of the pathways to adult social exclusion for children born in 1958 is explored. We identify the pervasive childhood factors, associated with a wide range of adult disadvantage, and specific life-course domain antecedents. Childhood disadvantage has more powerful legacies...

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Living with HIV post-diagnosis: a qualitative study of the experiences of Nairobi slum residents

Wekesa, Eliud; Coast, Ernestina - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Objectives: To characterise the experiences of heterosexual men and women living with HIV post-diagnosis and explain these experiences in relation to their identity and sexuality. Design: Qualitative study using in-depth interviews and theoretically informed biographic disruption theory....

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Gender and the labor market: what have we learned from field and lab experiments?

Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: to gain less from negotiation, women appear to …

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