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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

returns to education are not significantly reduced by this omission bias but there is evidence of substantial returns to the … children from low SES groups. The implications of these results for education are developed. Parental attitudes are much more …

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Why Are Migrants Paid More?

Bryson, Alex; Rossi, Giambattista; Simmons, Rob - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

In efficient global labour markets for very high wage workers one might expect wage differentials between migrant and domestic workers to reflect differences in labour productivity. However, using panel data on worker-firm matches in a single industry over a seven year period we find a...

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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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Self-Selection and the Performance of Return Migrants: the Source Country Perspective.

Piracha, Matloob; Coulon, Augustin de - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

In this paper, using the framework of a Roy theoretical model, we examine the performance of return migrants in Albania. We ask two main questions: (i) Had they chosen not to migrate, what would be the performance of return migrants compared to the non-migrants? and (ii) What would be the...

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Conflict-Induced Displacement and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina

Kondylis, Florence - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

This study uses a longitudinal data source to study the effects of conflict-induced displacement on labour market outcomes for Bosnians in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina. To account for endogeneity in the displacement status, I exploit the fact that the level of violence in the pre-war...

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Assimilation of Migrants into the British Labour Market

Dickens, Richard; McKnight, Abigail - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

This paper discusses the extent to which migrants to Britain have been assimilated into the workforce. Migration into …

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Improving education in two extremely poor regions: triumph and tragedy

Boone, Peter - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

running primary school education projects in the rural villages of Andhra Pradesh and Guinea-Bissau. Their initial survey of … two years of extra education that the project provides have scored significantly higher on tests. …

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Education and Health Knowledge: Evidence from UK Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … 15) and 1972 (from 15 to 16) to provide exogenous variation in education. These reforms predominantly induced adolescents … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …

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#ElectionEconomics: The Research Evidence on Key Issues for Voters in the 2015 UK General Election

Azmat, Ghazala; Bell, Brian; Colmer, Jonathan; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

Please see the CEP #ElectionEconomics report(Paper 1)and the Executive Summary (Paper 2) that cover all the election 2015 briefings, discussing the research evidence on 15 of the UK's key policy battlegrounds: immigration, austerity, real wages and living standards, productivity and business,...

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Changes in Intergenerational Mobility in Britain

Blanden, Jo; Goodman, Alissa; Gregg, Paul; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

This paper compares and contrasts estimates of the extent of intergenerational income mobility over time in Britain. Estimates based on two British birth cohorts show that mobility appears to have fallen in a cross-cohort comparison of people who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s (the 1958 birth...

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