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Teenage expectations and desires about family formation in the United States

Plotnick, Robert D. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Using data collected in 2000 on a racially and ethnically diverse sample of high school seniors (typically 17-18 years old), this study analyzes teenagers’ expectations and desires about marriage, having children, and becoming unwed parents. The study is the first to examine all six outcomes...

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Trends in hours and economic growth

Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We study long-run trends in aggregate market hours of work and shifts across economic sectors within the context of balanced aggregate growth. We show that a model of many goods and uneven TFP growth in market and home production can rationalize the observed falling or U-shaped aggregate hours...

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Can labour supply explain the rise in unemployment and intergroup wage inequality in the OECD?

Wasmer, E. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

the ''50s may have increased competition between women, young workers and low skilled workers in some segments of the …

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Employment and taxes

Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper considers the impact of taxation policy on market work. On the basis of the evidence, we find that a 10 percentage point rise in the tax wedge will reduce overall labour input provided via the market by around 2 per cent of the population of working age. The tax wedge is the sum of...

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You can't always get what you want: the impact of the jobseeker's allowance

Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

In 1996 the UK made major changes to its welfare system for the support of the unemployed with the introduction of the Jobseeker’s Allowance. This tightened the work search requirements needed for eligibility for benefit. It resulted in large flows out of claimant status, but, this paper...

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The returns to temporary migration to the United States: evidence from the Mexican urban employment survey

Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Mexican migration to the United States has been a very important issue throughout the twentieth century, and its relevance has reached unprecedented levels during the last two decades. Even though there is a huge body of literature that analyses many different aspects of this phenomenon, the...

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Labour supply, search and taxes

Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

Classical labour supply theory is one of the most sophisticated parts of labour economics. Yet, there is no compelling theoretical reason to believe in an outcome on a classical labour supply curve and it is unclear whether it is a good empirical description of the way in which labour markets...

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Labour force participation of women in India: some facts, some queries

Bhalla, Surjit; Kaur, Ravinder - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

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The creation of UN Women

Charlesworth, Hilary; Chinkin, Christine - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

process has been the creation in 2010 of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, known as UN Women …, which came into operation on January 1, 2011. UN Women incorporates four existing parts of the UN system dealing with women … structure for the situation of women worldwide from the perspective of international law. Is UN Women simply a bureaucratic …

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FEAR, UNEMPLOYMENT AND PAY FLEXIBILITY

BLANCHFLOWER, D. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1989

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