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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,...

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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In brief: Does management matter in schools?

Lemos, Renata - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Better school management is associated with better pupil achievement, according to CEP analysis of the quality of management practices in schools in a range of developed and developing countries. Renata Lemos notes that the quality of school management is related to leadership traits of the head...

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Immigration, the European Union and the UK Labour Market

Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

During periods of strong economic growth, migration is and has always been important for filling gaps in the labour market. On balance, the evidence for the UK labour market suggests that fears about adverse consequences of rising immigration in general and EU immigration in particular have...

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Everybody needs good neighbours?

Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

There are large disparities between the achievements, behaviour and aspirations of children in different neighbourhoods - but does this mean that the place where you grow up determines your later life outcomes? Steve Gibbons, Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt outline the findings of a series of CEP...

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Does school spending matter?

Gibbons, Steve; McNally, Sandra - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

income devoted to education would make much of a difference, they ask what is the ideal balance of spending between early … years, primary and secondary education. They conclude that there is no compelling case to support a transfer of resources … from later stages of education to early years: early years investment may offer higher returns, but the returns erode …

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