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The Relative Economic Importance of Academic, Psychological and Behavioural Attributes Developed on Chilhood

Feinstein, L - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2000

This paper makes use of the substantial information about the psychological and behavioural development of children by age ten in the 1970 Cohort to predict later, economic outcomes, namely qualifications, employment and earnings. It is found that this previously unobserved individual...

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The Promise of Workplace Training for Non-College Bound Youth: Theory and Evidence from German Apprenticeship

Clark, Damon; Fahr, René - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

This paper assesses the potential of `workplace training' with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide `optimal' training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...

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Immigration, Diversity and the Labour Market Outcomes of Native Workers: Some Recent Developments

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

This brief essay provides a selective discussion of how in recent years economists in the neoclassical tradition have addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers' labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses: the distinction between the displacement,...

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Inequality: Are we really 'all in this together'?

Zucman, Gabriel - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

Continental Europe (8%). This share has been rising steadily since the late 1970s, mainly due to labour income (wages), but also …

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Has Performance Pay Increased Wage Inequality in Britain?

Bryan, Mark; Bryson, Alex - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the decade of economic growth which ended with the recession of 2008. PP was also associated with...

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The Long-Run Labour Market Consequences of Teenage Motherhood in Britain

Chevalier, Arnaud; Viitanen, Tarja K. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

Common wisdom states that teenage childbearing reduces schooling, labour market experience and adult wages. However …

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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

of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e … an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series … of British cross-sectional micro data of observations on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s …

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A Picture of Job Insecurity Facing British Men

Jones, Patricia Tracy; Nickell, Stephen; Quintini, Glenda - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2000

becoming unemployed, the costs of unemployment in terms of real wages losses and the probability that the continuously employed …

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Wage Equations, Wage Curves and All That

Bell, B; Nickell, Stephen; Quintini, Glenda - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2000

This paper is concerned with the relationship between wages and unemployment. Using UK regions and individuals as the … unemployment and wages or wage changes? Second, can we identify the relationship completely by looking at regional wages and … regional unemployment or do regional wages depend on aggregate unemployment as well? Third, are wages influenced only by the …

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The Incidence of an Earned Income Tax Credit: Evaluating the Impact on Wages in the UK

Azmat, Ghazala - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

Tax credits have been a popular way to alleviate in-work poverty. The assumption is typically that the incidence is on the claimant workers. However, economic theory suggests no particular reason to believe that this should be the case. This paper investigates the incidence of the Working...

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