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Early, Late or Never? When Does Parental Education Impact Child Outcomes?

Dickson, Matt; Gregg, Paul; Robinson, Harriet - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

We study the intergenerational effects of parents' education on their children's educational outcomes. The endogeneity of parental education is addressed by exploiting the exogenous shift in education levels induced by the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age (RoSLA) from age 15 to 16 in...

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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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The Careers of Immigrants

Matos, Ana Damas de - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

I use a unique linked employer employee panel covering all wage earners in the private sector in Portugal to shed new light on the careers of immigrants. During the first ten years in the country immigrants close one third of the initial immigrant-native wage gap. I show that one third of this...

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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

wage changes to identify those effects; and the problem of assessing a causal link from immigration to natives' labour … addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers' labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses …: the distinction between the displacement, productivity and amenity effects of immigration; the issues that arise in using …

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Culture Clash or Culture Club? The Identity and Attitudes of Immigrants in Britain

Manning, Alan; Roy, Sanchari - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

). This might have consequences for immigration policy - how many immigrants to allow into a country and from what cultural …

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The Economic Situation of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Algan, Yann; Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but …

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On the Relative Gains to Immigration: A Comparison of the Labour Market Position of Indians in the USA, the UK and India

Wadsworth, Jonathan; Coulon, Augustin de - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

While most studies of the decision to immigrate focus on the absolute income differences between countries, we argue that relative change in purchasing power or status, as captured by an individual's ranking in the wage distribution, may also be important. This will in turn be influenced by...

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Change and Continuity Among Minority Communities in Britain

Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

There is widespread concern currently that some ethnic minority communities within Britain, especially Muslim, are not following the stereotypical immigrant path of economic and cultural assimilation into British society. Indeed, many seem to have the impression that differences between Muslims...

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Changes in Earnings Inequality and Mobility in Great Britain 1978/9-2005/6

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

This paper examines changes in earnings inequality and mobility between 1978/9 and 2005/6 using a unique dataset that includes both those with secure patterns of employment and a wider group who experience periods without earnings. It finds significant increases in annual earnings inequality for...

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Upward Social Mobility, Well-being and Political Preferences: Evidence from the BHPS

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Angelo, Emanuela - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

The paper uses 18 waves of BHPS data to provide evidence of the roles of both own social status and upward mobility relative to one's parents on job and life satisfaction, preferences for redistribution, pro-public sector attitudes and voting. Both own social status and greater mobility with...

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