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The impact of the labour market on the timing of marriage and births in Spain

Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (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 … hours) postpone first and second birth in any cohort, even accounting for any potential endogeneity between fertility and …

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Lags and leads in life satisfaction: a test of the baseline hypothesis

Clark, Andrew E.; Diener, Ed; Georgellis, Yannis; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

marriage, divorce, widowhood, birth of child, and layoff. However, there is little evidence of adaptation to unemployment. Men …

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Back to baseline in Britain: adaptation in the British household panel survey

Clark, Andrew E.; Georgellis, Yannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of child and widowhood appears to be rapid and complete; this is not so for unemployment …

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Employment after motherhood: a European comparison

Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (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...

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Employment penalty after motherhood in Spain

Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (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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Social comparisons, health and well-being

Clark, Andrew E. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Health and well-being are socially determined. One of the ways in which this comes about is via social comparisons with other individuals in the same personal, geographic or social networks, with the comparisons referring either to income or other aspects of economic and social life. The...

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Employee voice and private sector workplace outcomes in Britain, 1980-2004

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Kretschmer, Tobias; Willman, P. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Non-union direct voice has replaced union representative voice as the primary avenue for employee voice in the British private sector. This paper provides a framework for examining the relationship between employee voice and workplace outcomes that explains this development. As exit-voice theory...

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Do organisational climate and strategic orientation moderate the relationship between human resource management practices and productivity?

Neal, Andrew; West, Michael A.; Patterson, Malcolm G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Contingency formulations of Human Resource Management (HRM) theory suggest that the effectiveness of HRM practices should vary across firms. This study examined whether the relationship between HRM practices and productivity in manufacturing companies is contingent upon organizational climate...

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Employee stock purchase plans – gift or incentive? evidence from a multinational corporation

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Many large listed firms offer workers the opportunity to buy shares in the firm at discounted rates through employee stock purchase plans (ESPP). The discounted rate creates a gift exchange, where the firm hopes that workers who accept the gift reciprocate with greater loyalty and effort. But...

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What happens when employers are free to discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League

Bryson, Alex; Chevalier, Arnaud - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Research on employers’ hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League, where employers can freely exercise their taste for...

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