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Social Policies and Labor Market Outcomes in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review of the Existing Evidence

Bosch, Mariano; Manacorda, Marco - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

Latin America and the Caribbean have become in the last decade or so a formidable laboratory for the design and implementation of innovative social policies. In the face of an unprecedented surge in the number of non-contributory social assistance benefit programs in the region, there is a...

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What Can Life Satisfaction Data Tell Us About Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities? A Structural Equation Model for Australia and the United Kingdom

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Wooden, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

) employment; (iii) health (iv) partner relationships; (v) children; (vi) friendship networks; and (vii) education. Lesbian, gay …Very little is known about how the differential treatment of sexual minorities could influence subjective reports of …

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Sexism at work

Erikssoon, Björn; Karlsson, Tobias; Leunig, Tim; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

a simple model of sex-based discrimination. Instead, the gender wage gap can be decomposed into two components. First … the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper … investigates the gender wage gap in cigar making around 1900. Strength was rarely an issue, but the gender wage gap was large. Two …

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Gender and the labour market: evidence from experiments

Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

differences in men and women's pay and employment opportunities can be explained by discrimination or by differences in their …

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Gender, Productivity and the Nature of Work and Pay: Evidence from the Late Nineteenth-Century Tobacco Industry

Eriksson, Björn; Karlsson, Tobias; Leunig, Tim; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?

Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …

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Evaluating the Performance of the Search and Matching Model

Yashiv, Eran - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

Does the search and matching model fit aggregate U.S. labor market data? While the model has become an important tool of macroeconomic analysis, recent literature pointed to some failures in accounting for the data. This paper aims to answer two questions: (i) Does the model fit the data, and,...

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Do Job Security Guarantees Work?

Bryson, Alex; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lucifora, Claudio - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

We investigate the effect of employer job security guarantees on employee perceptions of jobsecurity. Using linked employer-employee data from the 1998 British Workplace EmployeeRelations Survey, we find job security guarantees reduce employee perceptions of jobinsecurity. This finding is robust...

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How Does Product Market Competition Shape Incentive Contracts?

Cuñat, Vicente; Guadalupe, María - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

This paper studies the effect of product market competition on the explicit compensation packages that firms offer to their CEOs, executives and workers. We use a large sample of both traded and non-traded UK firms and exploit a quasi-natural experiment associated to an increase in competition....

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Consumption and Savings with Unemployment Risk: Implications for Optimal Employment Contracts

Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

This paper derives optimal employment contracts when workers are risk averse and there are employment and unemployment risks. Without income insurance, consumption rises during employment and falls during unemployment. Optimal employment contracts offer severance compensation to smooth...

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