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Conflict-Induced Displacement and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina

Kondylis, Florence - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

This study uses a longitudinal data source to study the effects of conflict-induced displacement on labour market outcomes for Bosnians in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina. To account for endogeneity in the displacement status, I exploit the fact that the level of violence in the pre-war...

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Immigrants at Retirement: Stay/Return or 'Va-et-Vient'

Wolff, Francois-Charles; Coulon, Augustin de - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

. Assuming that migrants derive some satisfaction from contact and visits with other family members, we suggest that migrants may … location intention at retirement using a recent data set on migrants currently living in France. We found that the migrant …

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Discussion Sessions Coupled with Microfinancing May Enhance the Roles of Women in Household Decision-Making in Burundi

Ferrari, Giulia; Iyengar, Radha - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

The empowerment of women within households remains a major issue around the world including in Africa. We have conducted a study in Burundi coupling discussion sessions with microfinancing to determine if they enhance the role of women in decisions regarding household purchases and the reduction...

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Can Helping the Sick Hurt the Able? Incentives, Information and Disruption in a Disability-Related Welfare Reform

Bagaria, Nitika; Petrongolo, Barbara; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

Disability rolls have escalated in developed nations over the last 40 years. The UK, however, stands out because the numbers on these benefits stopped rising when a welfare reform was introduced that integrated disability benefits with unemployment insurance (UI). This policy reform improved job...

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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

There is theoretical evidence that economic and family policies have an important impact on mother's employment. The aim of this article is to study empirically the women's transitions from employment to non-employment after they have their first birth in Belgium, West-Germany, Italy, Spain and...

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Can Family-Support Policies Help Explain Differences in Working Hours Across Countries?

Sila, Urban - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

people with children and people without children. Childcare subsidies should increase working hours in the economy and these … effects should differ between people with children and people without children. Public support to families is also expected to … working hours are weak and insignificant. In regressions with time spent caring for children as a dependent variable, the …

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Employment Penalty After Motherhood In Spain

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

This paper investigates whether there exists an employment penalty from motherhood in Spain. In particular, we are interested in transitions from employment to non-employment and downward occupational mobility. Results show that Spanish women experience significant transitions from employment to...

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The Part-Time Pay Penalty

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

children, to work in small establishments in distribution, hotels and restaurants and in low-level occupations. Taking account …

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Unequal Britain: How Real Are Regional Disparities?

Gibbons, Steve; Overman, Henry - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

Average earnings vary widely across the regions of Britain, a fact that has prompted many decades of policies aimed at reducing regional disparities. But as Henry Overman and Steve Gibbons demonstrate, such variation reveals little, especially if we ignore regional differences in the cost of...

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