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The impact of vocational qualifications on the labour market outcomes of low-achieving school-leavers

McIntosh, Steven - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper creates a pseudo cohort of individuals who left school in the mid-1990s, using Labour Force Survey. The extent of low achievement at school amongst this group is documented, and then the impact of such low achievement on labour force status is estimated. The main focus of the paper is...

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Schools in disadvantaged areas: recognising context and raising quality

Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower in disadvantaged areas than others and much recent policy attention has been focused on each. This paper looks at the quality problem, exploring the relationships between disadvantaged contexts, what schools do, and the quality...

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How do child and adolescent mental health problems influence public sector costs? Interindividual variations in a nationally representative British sample

Knapp, Martin; Snell, Tom; Healey, Andrew; Guglani, Sacha; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

service use into primary care, specialist mental health services, frontline education, special education and social care …, inequality and inefficiency in the way that mental health, education and social care systems respond to emotional and behavioural …

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Immigration and the UK labour market: the latest evidence from economic research

Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

During periods of strong economic growth, migration is and has always been important for filling gaps in the labour market. On balance, the evidence for the UK labour market suggests that fears about the consequences of rising immigration have been exaggerated. It is hard to find evidence of...

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Big ideas: valuing schooling through house prices

Gibbons, Steve - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

significance for public policy for education, cities and social mobility. …

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Cross-national rankings of intergenerational mobility: a comparison of approaches from economics and sociology

Blanden, Jo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

, education or social class. The literatures on education and income mobility reveal a similar ranking with South America, other … second part of the paper looks for explanations for the differences in earnings and education persistence and finds that … mobility is negatively correlated with inequality and the return to education but positively correlated with a nation …

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Social housing, neighborhood quality and student performance

Weinhardt, Felix - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the short-term effect of very deprived neighborhoods, characterized by a high density of social housing, on the educational...

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Parallel lives? Ethnic segregation in schools and neighbourhoods

Burgess, Simon; Wilson, Deborah; Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

compare patterns of segregation across nine ethnic groups, and across Local Education Authorities in England. Looking at both …

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The dynamics of school attainment of England's ethnic minorities

Wilson, Deborah; Burgess, Simon; Briggs, Adam - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We exploit a universe dataset of state school students in England with linked test score records to document the evolution of attainment through school for different ethnic groups. The analysis yields a number of striking findings. First, we show that, controlling for personal characteristics,...

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Education, equity and social mobility: a summary of three research papers

Utting, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

2014: - Blanden, J. & Macmillan, L. (2014) Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Help or Hindrance? CASEpaper … education: analysis using linked administrative data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A), Vol. 176, Part 2, pp … Research Paper 46. London: Institute of Education. …

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