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Comparing Willingness-to-Pay and Subjective Well-Being in the Context of Non-Market Goods

Dolan, Paul; Metcalfe, Robert - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

In order to value non-market goods, economists estimate individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for these goods using revealed or stated preference methods. We compare these conventional approaches with subjective well-being (SWB), which is based on individuals' ratings of their happiness or life...

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Fees and loathing: higher education finance and university participation

Wyness, Gill - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

With the UK's cap on tuition fees due to rise to £9,000, Gill Wyness looks at the impact of past fee increases on young people's decisions to go to university.

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Why is the Rate of Return to Schooling Higher For Women Than For Men?

Dougherty, C - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

The rate of return to schooling appears to be nearly two percentage points greater for females than for males in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set, despite the fact that females tend to earn less, both absolutely and controlling for personal characteristics. A survey of previous...

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Education and Italian Regional Development

Liberto, Adriana Di; Symons, James - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2001

Given recent emphasis on externality to education, macroeconomic studies have a role to play in the analysis of return to schooling. In this paper we study the connection between growth and human capital in a convergence regression for the panel of Italian regions. We include measures of...

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Changes in Returns to Education in Latin America: the Role of Demand and Supply of Skills

Manacorda, Marco; Sanchez-Paramo, Carolina; Schady, Norbert - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

Changes in the relative wages of workers with different amounts of education have profound implications for developing … America depressed the wages of workers with secondary school. We also show that there have been sharp increases in the demand …

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The Returns to Scarce Talent: Footedness and Player Remuneration in European Soccer

Bryson, Alex; Frick, Bernd; Simmons, Rob - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

We investigate the salary returns to the ability to play football with both feet. The majority of footballers are … players in the German Bundesliga, we find robust evidence of a substantial salary premium for two-footed ability, even after … controlling for available player performance measures. We assess how this premium varies across the salary distribution and by …

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Gender Gaps in the UK Labour Market: jobs, pay and family-friendly policies

Azmat, Ghazala - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

sizeable 'gender gaps' in employment and wages. Certain factors help to explain a good part of gender gaps, including caring …

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The Economic Performance of UK Cities: Can Urban and Regional Policy Make a Difference to the North-South Divide

Overman, Henry - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

There are large variations in economic performance across UK cities and on some measures, they have widened since the global financial crisis. All main parties promise action to reduce them, but there is little difference between them in terms of the policies that they would pursue to meet this...

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Has Performance Pay Increased Wage Inequality in Britain?

Bryan, Mark; Bryson, Alex - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the decade of economic growth which ended with the recession of 2008. PP was also associated with...

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Trade Union Membership and Influence 1999-2009

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

This paper analyses the continued decline of trade unions in Britain and examines the possible implications for workers, employers, and unions themselves. Membership of trade unions declined precipitously in the 1980s and 1990s. The rate of decline has slowed in the most recent decade, but we...

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