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In brief: The educational background of postgrad students
Machin, Stephen; Murphy, Richard - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
Has the boom in postgraduate courses in the UK over recent years had a negative impact on intergenerational mobility? Research by Stephen Machin and Richard Murphy suggests that there is a small but significant imbalance in favour of undergraduates who have been privately educated.
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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
wages and living standards, productivity and business, Europe, the NHS, schools, tuition fees, gender gaps, urban and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269056
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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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Inequality and opportunity: the return of a neglected debate
Machin, Stephen; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
During this election period many Americans are feeling angry towards the very rich, especially those working in the financial sector, who helped cause the Great Recession and yet were bailed out by the government. Increases in inequality might be tolerable at a time of growing consumption for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010585812
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Moving Up and Sliding Down: An Empirical Assessment of the Effect of Social Mobility on Subjective Wellbeing
Dolan, Paul; Lordan, Grace - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
Many people remain in the same income group as their parents and this is a cause of much discussion and some concern. In this work, we examine how intergenerational mobility affects subjective wellbeing (SWB) using the British Cohort Study. Our SWB measures encapsulate life satisfaction and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610736
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Life Opportunities: The Evidence on the UK’s Declining Social Mobility
Blanden, Jo - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005
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Gender Gaps Across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a … positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled- to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked … shaping gender differences in labor market outcomes across skills and countries. We use a simple multi-sector framework to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371119
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Fear and the Response to Terrorism: An Economic Analysis
Becker, Gary S.; Rubinstein, Yona - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
frequent users. Education and the exposure to media coverage also matters. We find a large impact of suicide attacks during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323009
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Teachers' Pay and Pupil Performance
Dolton, Peter; Gutierrez, Oscar Marcenaro - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
If you pay peanuts, do you get monkeys? If teachers were better paid and higher up the national income distribution, would there be an improvement in pupil performance? Peter Dolton and Oscar Marcenaro-Gutierrez examine the enormous variation in teachers' pay across OECD countries and its...
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Young People Without Qualifications: How 'Headline Numbers' Shape Policy and Aspiration
Steedman, Hilary - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
England's most widely used indicator of young people's education and labour market status is the NEET category - 'not … in education, employment or training'. Making comparisons with how France and Germany measure school leavers' progression …
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