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Employment After Motherhood: A European Comparison
Gutierrez-Domenech, Maria - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003
withdrawal from work is due to marriage or to motherhood. Results show that Spain and West-Germany are the countries with the … lowest rates of staying on in the labour market after childbearing. Higher education is a key explanatory factor of the …), education and part-time employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797292
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Employment Penalty After Motherhood In Spain
Gutierrez-Domenech, Maria - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
This paper investigates whether there exists an employment penalty from motherhood in Spain. In particular, we are … pre-birth job features and education. We find that around 40 percent of Spanish women who were at work one year before … human capital (experience and higher level of education) increases the probability of staying at work. There is evidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016846
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Making the UK's aid budget work better
Boone, Peter - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
All the UK's major parties agree on ring-fencing foreign aid spending at current levels, even while the country's dire financial situation requires sharp cuts to other budgets. Peter Boone draws on the evidence on aid effectiveness to argue that our focus should not be on the amount we spend but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416247
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The Part-Time Pay Penalty
Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005
who work FT, PT women are more likely to have low levels of education, to be in a couple, to have young and numerous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017042
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Gender Gaps Across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled- to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371119
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Fear and the Response to Terrorism: An Economic Analysis
Becker, Gary S.; Rubinstein, Yona - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
frequent users. Education and the exposure to media coverage also matters. We find a large impact of suicide attacks during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323009
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Teachers' Pay and Pupil Performance
Dolton, Peter; Gutierrez, Oscar Marcenaro - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
If you pay peanuts, do you get monkeys? If teachers were better paid and higher up the national income distribution, would there be an improvement in pupil performance? Peter Dolton and Oscar Marcenaro-Gutierrez examine the enormous variation in teachers' pay across OECD countries and its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351536
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Young People Without Qualifications: How 'Headline Numbers' Shape Policy and Aspiration
Steedman, Hilary - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
England's most widely used indicator of young people's education and labour market status is the NEET category - 'not … in education, employment or training'. Making comparisons with how France and Germany measure school leavers' progression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351537
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The Minimum Wage and Inequality - The Effects of Education and Technology
Bárány, Zsófia L. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
While there has been intense debate in the empirical literature about the effects of minimum wages on inequality in the US, its general equilibrium effects have been given little attention. In order to quantify the full effects of a decreasing minimum wage on inequality, I build a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293675
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The State of Apprenticeship in 2010: International Comparisons - Australia, Austria, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland. A Report for the Apprenticeship Ambassa...
Steedman, Hilary - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
Forward by Sir Roy Gardner (Chairman, Compass Group plc; Chairman, Apprenticeship Ambassadors Network) August 2010: I am pleased to commend this report, commissioned by the Apprenticeship Ambassadors Network, of which I am Chairman. The Network is a group of senior business leaders committed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702101