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Hot and Cold Seasons in the Housing Market

Ngai, L. Rachel; Tenreyro, Silvana - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

Every year during the second and thirdquarters (the "hot season") housing markets in the UK and the US experience systematic above-trend increases in both prices and transactions. During the fourth and first quarters (the "cold season"), house prices and transactions fall below trend. We propose...

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Gross Worker Flows in the Presence of Informal Labor Markets. The Mexican Experience 1987-2002

Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

This paper applies recent advances in the study of labor market dynamics to a representative developing country with a … with sharp countercyclical movements in the job separation rate, consistent with standard small firm dynamics and Davis and … patterns of worker transitions between all sectors, formal and informal correspond to the job-to-job dynamics observed in the …

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The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Male Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain

Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

Immigration to the UK has risen in the past 10 years and has had a measurable effect on the supply of different types of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e.g. Dustmann, Fabbri and Preston, 2005) have failed to find any...

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Did the National Minimum Wage Affect UK Prices?

Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

One potential channel through which the effects of the minimum wage could be directed is that firms who employ minimum wage workers could have passed on any higher labour costs resulting from the minimum wage in the form of higher prices. This study looks at the effects of the minimum wage on...

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Give PCs a Chance: Personal Computer Ownership and the Digital Divide in the United States and Great Britain

Schmitt, John; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

This paper summarizes inequalities in PC ownership using data from the US Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) and the British General Household Survey (GHS) for the period 1984-98. Between 1988 and 1994, British households were more likely than US households to own a personal computer (PC). After...

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The Self Selection of Migrant Workers Revisited

Yashiv, Eran - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

Work of low-skilled migrant workers from developing countries in developed economies is a growingphenomenon and a key political and economic issue. An extensive literature has found (for the mostpart) that these workers come from the lower part of the skill distribution. This paper revisits...

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Networks in the Premodern Economy: the Market for London Apprenticeships, 1600-1749

Leunig, Tim; Minns, Chris; Wallis, Patrick - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

This paper examines the importance of social and geographical networks in structuring entry into skilled occupations in premodern London. Using newly digitised records of those beginning an apprenticeship in London between 1600 and 1749, we find little evidence that networks strongly shaped...

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The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European … significance subsided again in the late 1990s and 2000s. In France the dynamics of unemployment are driven virtually entirely by … rates contribute significantly to the dynamics, very likely as a consequence of the prominence of fixed-term contracts since …

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The Transferable Scars: A Longitudinal Evidence of Psychological Impact of Past Parental Unemployment on Adolescents in the United Kingdom

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Vernoit, James - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

Using a longitudinal data of British youths, this paper explores the consequences of past parental unemployment on the current happiness and self-esteem of the children. We find that a past unemployment spell of the father has important consequences for their children and leads to them having...

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The Role of Worker Flows in the Dynamics and Distribution of UK Unemployment

Elsby, Michael W. L.; Smith, Jennifer C.; Wadsworth, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

Unemployment varies substantially over time and across subgroups of the labour market. Worker flows among labour market states act as key determinants of this variation. We examine how the structure of unemployment across groups and its cyclical movements across time are shaped by changes in...

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