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Does self-employment measure entrepreneurship? evidence from Great Britain

Faggio, Giulia; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Research on entrepreneurship often uses information on self-employment to proxy for business creation and innovative behaviour. However, little evidence has been collected on the link between these measures. In this paper, we use data from the UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) combined with data from...

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Great Britain's second-order city regions in recessions, 1978-2010

Champion, Tony; Townsend, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

While it is now accepted that the 2008-09 recession accentuated regional differences in Britain, it is more difficult to identify the role of major cities, especially over a longer time scale. Using previously established methods focussed on employment, this paper assesses the record of nine...

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Transition from work to retirement in EU25

Zaidi, Asghar; Makovec, Mattia; Fuchs, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The policy agenda of extending working lives requires a holistic understanding of factors underlying the decision of older workers to withdraw from work and to retire. This brief paper presents employment patterns and trends of older people across EU Member States and identifies policy...

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Disability and disadvantage: selection, onset and duration effects

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Rigg, John A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper analyses the economic disadvantage experienced by disabled persons of working-age using data from the British Household Panel Survey. We argue that there are three sources of disadvantage among disabled persons: pre-existing disadvantage among those who become disabled (a...

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Transitions in labour market status in the European Union

Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie; Macchiarelli, Corrado - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

the ease with which individuals can move between employment, unemployment and inactivity over time. The results suggest … countries. Nonetheless, transitions from unemployment and inactivity back into the labour market are relatively weak in the euro … remaining in unemployment over two consecutive periods decreased in Sweden, the euro area, and,to a lesser extent, Denmark …

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All-Star or benchwarmer? relative age, cohort size and career success in the NHL

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as a function of the demographic conditions into which they were born. We have three main findings. First, larger birth cohorts substantially affect careers. A player born into a...

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Private sector employment growth, 1998-2004: a panel analysis of British workplaces

Bryson, Alex; Nurmi, Satu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

Using nationally representative panel data for British private sector workplaces this paper points to the importance of distinguishing between workplace and firm size when analysing employment growth, and finds that the factors associated with growth differ markedly between single independent...

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Trends in hours and economic growth

Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We study long-run trends in aggregate market hours of work and shifts across economic sectors within the context of balanced aggregate growth. We show that a model of many goods and uneven TFP growth in market and home production can rationalize the observed falling or U-shaped aggregate hours...

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Trends in hours and economic growth

Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

We study substitutions between home and market production over long periods of time. We use the results to get predictions about long-run trends in aggregate market hours of work and about employment shifts across economic sectors, driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. The...

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Globalisation, productive systems, and inequalities

Duranton, Gilles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

Using the idea that the division of labor is limited not only by the extent of the market but also by its heterogeneity, it is proposed in this paper that ''globalisation'' is redrawing the lines of division within and between countries. Our model builds on the concept of productive systems. Our...

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