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Can family-support policies help explain differences in working hours across countries?

Sila, Urban - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

It has been suggested in the literature that taxes and subsidies play an important role in explaining the differences in working hours across countries. In this paper I test whether public programmes for family support play a role in explaining this variation. I analyse two types of policies:...

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Ambition, human capital acquisition and the metropolitan escalator

Gordon, Ian R. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

This paper examines the relation between ambition, as a form of dynamic human capital, and the escalator role of high-order metropolitan regions, as originally identified by A. J. Fielding. It argues that occupational progression in such places particularly depends on concentrations both of...

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2000 families: identifying the research potential of an origins-of-migration study

Güveli, Ayşe; Ganzeboom, Harry; Baykara-Krumme, Helen; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Despite extensive recent advances in the empirical and theoretical study of migration, certain critical areas in the … analysis of European migration remain relatively underdeveloped both theoretically and empirically. Specifically, we lack … multiple generations and incorporating family migration trajectories. This paper outlines the development, data and design of …

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Cultural diversity, cities and innovation: firm effects or city effects?

Lee, Neil - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Growing cultural diversity is seen as important for innovation. Research has focused on two potential mechanisms: a firm effect, with diversity at the firm level improving knowledge sourcing or ideas generation, and a city effect, where diverse cities helping firms innovate. This paper uses a...

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Does cultural diversity help innovation in cities: evidence from London firms

Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

London is one of the world’s major cities, and one of its most diverse. London’s cultural diversity is widely seen as a social asset, but there is little hard evidence on its importance for the city’s businesses. Theory and evidence suggest various links between urban cultural diversity...

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Ambition, human capital acquisition and the metropolitan escalator

Gordon, Ian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This paper examines the relation between ambition, as a form of dynamic human capital, and the escalator role of high order metropolitan regions, as originally identified by Fielding (1989). It argues that occupational progression in such places particularly depends on concentrations both of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746485

Conflict-induced displacement and labour market outcomes: evidence from post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina

Kondylis, Florence - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This study uses a longitudinal data source to study the effects of conflict-induced displacement on labour market outcomes for Bosnians in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina. To account for endogeneity in the displacement status, I exploit the fact that the level of violence in the pre-war...

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Long term care partnerships: are they 'fit for purpose'?

Bergquist, Savannah; Costa-Font, Joan; Swartz, Katherine - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

The risk of high costs of long-term care services and supports (LTSS) is one of the largest uninsured risks for American families and a major challenge to the sustainability of Medicaid. To address the latter, the long-term care partnership (LTCP) program was an initiative designed to encourage...

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Female labor supply and divorce: new evidence from Ireland

Bargain, Olivier; González, Libertad; Keane, Claire; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

If participation in the labor market helps to secure women’s outside options in the case of divorce/separation, an increase in the perceived risk of marital dissolution may accelerate the increase in female labor supply. This simple prediction has been tested in the literature using time...

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Small-area measures of income poverty

Fenton, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper considers techniques for measuring the prevalence of income poverty within small areas, or “neighbourhoods”, in Britain. The ultimate purpose is applying such statistics to investigating how the micro-spatial distribution of poverty within cities and regions changes over time as a...

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