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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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Everybody needs good neighbours?

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

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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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The Impact of the Labour Market on the Timing of Marriage and Births in Spain.

Gutierrez-Domenech, Maria - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

The main purpose of this paper is to show how the labour market affects Spanish individual fertility decisions. Spain is an interesting case due to its huge fertility decline. Our hypothesis is that precarious Spanish labour markets (i.e. high unemployment rates and fixedterm contracts) postpone...

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Employment After Motherhood: A European Comparison

Gutierrez-Domenech, Maria - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

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. …

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Employment Penalty After Motherhood In Spain

Gutierrez-Domenech, Maria - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

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 …

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Landing The First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring

Stanton, Christopher; Thomas, Catherine - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Online markets for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract with each other directly. Despite this, intermediaries - called outsourcing agencies - have emerged in these markets. This paper shows that agencies signal to employers that inexperienced workers are high quality....

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Robots at Work

Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We...

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Assignment Reversals: Trade, Skill Allocation and Wage Inequality

Sampson, Thomas - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

Understanding the allocation of skilled labor across industries is necessary to explain inter-industry wage differences and the effect of trade on wages. This paper develops a multi-sector assignment model with both heterogeneous labor and a non-labor input in which high skill agents match with...

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Knowledge Spillovers from Clean and Dirty Technologies

Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Martin, Ralf; Mohnen, Myra - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

How much should governments subsidize the development of new clean technologies? We use patent citation data to investigate the relative intensity of knowledge spillovers in clean and dirty technologies in two technological fields: energy production and transportation. We introduce a new...

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