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The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Male Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain

Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

Immigration to the UK has risen in the past 10 years and has had a measurable effect on the supply of different types … of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e … an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series …

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Trophy architects and the ‘dark matter' of London’s planning system

Cheshire, Paul; Dericks, Gerard - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

A quarter of London's skyscrapers are designed by architects who have already won a lifetime achievement award and whose work thus has the imprimatur of 'iconic design'; this compares with just 3% in Chicago. According to research by Paul Cheshire and Gerard Dericks, employing such 'trophy...

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Did the National Minimum Wage Affect UK Prices?

Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

One potential channel through which the effects of the minimum wage could be directed is that firms who employ minimum wage workers could have passed on any higher labour costs resulting from the minimum wage in the form of higher prices. This study looks at the effects of the minimum wage on...

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Give PCs a Chance: Personal Computer Ownership and the Digital Divide in the United States and Great Britain

Schmitt, John; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

This paper summarizes inequalities in PC ownership using data from the US Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) and the British General Household Survey (GHS) for the period 1984-98. Between 1988 and 1994, British households were more likely than US households to own a personal computer (PC). After...

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The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European countries, the United Kingdom, France and Spain. We compare performance in these three countries making use of both administrative and labor force survey data. We find that the...

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Jobs in the recession

Gregg, Paul; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

The recession of 2008-09 inflicted a larger cumulative loss of UK output than any of the previous post-war recessions, yet there has been a relatively low loss of employment, at least so far. Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth look for an explanation.

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The Self Selection of Migrant Workers Revisited

Yashiv, Eran - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

premia for migrants — an important issue in the immigration literature — are upward biased ifselection is not accounted for …

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Networks in the Premodern Economy: the Market for London Apprenticeships, 1600-1749

Leunig, Tim; Minns, Chris; Wallis, Patrick - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

This paper examines the importance of social and geographical networks in structuring entry into skilled occupations in premodern London. Using newly digitised records of those beginning an apprenticeship in London between 1600 and 1749, we find little evidence that networks strongly shaped...

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Unemployment in the Great Recession

Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

This paper studies the responses of unemployment in Germany, the United States and Britain to the Great Recession of 2008-09 by making use of Beveridge curve analysis, and in the entire OECD with other techniques. It is shown that Britain suffered from recession but no structural problems; the...

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The Transferable Scars: A Longitudinal Evidence of Psychological Impact of Past Parental Unemployment on Adolescents in the United Kingdom

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Vernoit, James - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

Using a longitudinal data of British youths, this paper explores the consequences of past parental unemployment on the current happiness and self-esteem of the children. We find that a past unemployment spell of the father has important consequences for their children and leads to them having...

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