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The Allocation of Talent over the Business Cycle and its Effect on Sectoral Productivity
Boehm, Michael; Watzinger, Martin - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
It is well documented that graduates enter different occupations in recessions than in booms. In this article, we examine the impact of this reallocation for long-term productivity and output across sectors. We develop a model in which talent flows to stable sectors in recessions and to cyclical...
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Home Computers and Married Women's Labor Supply
Lembcke, Alexander C. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
I consider how the availability of a personal computer at home changed employment for married women. I develop a … employment is 1.5 to 7 percentage points higher for women in households with a computer. The model predicts that the increase in … that both women with low levels of education (high school diploma or less) and women with the highest levels of education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747938
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Trends in Hours and Economic Growth
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the structural transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and services and on the marketization of home production. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016811
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The Returns to Temporary Migration to the United States: Evidence from the Mexican Urban Employment Survey
Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
minimizing the problems of self-selection bias that are common in most of the alternative data sources. Fixed-effects estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150974
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Gender Segregation in Employment Contracts
Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
ECHPS. Women are over-represented in part-time jobsin all countries considered, but while in northern Europe such allocation … involuntary and provide significantly lower job satisfaction than fulltimeones. Women are also over-represented in fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016835
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Child Labor and the Labor Supply of Other Household Members: Evidence from 1920 America
Manacorda, Marco - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003
This paper analyses the effect of child labor on household labor supply using 1920 US Census micro data. The aim of the analysis is to understand who in the household benefits from child labor. In order to identify a source of exogenous variation in child labor I use State-specific child labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017118
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Unemployment and Hours of Work: The North Atlantic Divide Revisited
Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
I examine the dynamic evolutions of unemployment, hours of work and the service share since the war in the United States and Europe. The theoretical model brings together all three and emphasizes technological growth. Computations show that the very low unemployment in Europe in the 1960s was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150972
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The Employment of Married Mothers in Great Britain: 1974-2000
Gregg, Paul; Gutierrez-Domenech, Maria; Waldfogel, Jane - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003
This paper analyses the increase in mothers¿ employment in Britain over the period 1974¿2000. The approach consists of isolating those birth cohorts whose mothers experienced significant increases in employment and relating those to changes in policies (maternity rights, taxation and...
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Employment Outcomes in the Welfare State
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008
We examine the implications of tax and subsidy policies for employment in the "three worlds of welfare", Anglo-Saxon, Continental European and Scandinavian. We argue that home production is key to a proper evaluation of the employment outcomes. Anglo-Saxon low-support policies encourage more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151058
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'The Value of Rude Health': Employees' Well Being, Absence and Workplace Performance
Marsden, David; Moriconi, Simone - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
This paper brings new evidence on the relationship between employees' well being, sickness absence and four dimensions of workplace performance i.e. productivity, efficiency, quality of service and profitability. It uses a new panel dataset with monthly observations over two years for 48 local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256483