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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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Inequity in long-term care use and unmet need: two sides of the same coin

García-Gómez, Pilar; Hernandez-Quevedo, Christina; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

health. At the time of the analysis, only those respondents with the highest dependency level were covered by the recently …

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Sex in older age in rural Malawi

Freeman, Emily; Coast, Ernestina - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

this setting as a field in which broader understandings of ageing, aged identities, and conceptions of person- or adulthood … ageing body was constructed as a weakened body, incompatible with understandings of adulthood based on physical productivity … constructions of ageing and sex can influence complex experiences of marital and non-marital sex in older age. We contribute to …

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Migrant diversity, migration motivations and early integration: the case of Poles in Germany, the Netherlands, London and Dublin

Luthra, Renee; Platt, Lucinda; Salamońska, Justyna - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

The expansion of the European Union eastwards in 2004, with an ensuing massive increase in East-West migration from the accession countries has been represented as a new migration system of a kind unique in recent migration history, with its specific features of rights of movement and low...

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Does the underground economy hold back financial deepening? Evidence from the Italian credit market

Gobbi, Giorgio; Zizza, Roberta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

The paper investigates the relationship between underground activities and financial deepening. The access to external finance requires entrepreneurs to disclose credible information through formal documentation. This requirement may be impossible to oblige to for many informal producers who...

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Factor price equality and the economies of the United States

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

We develop a methodology for identifying departures from relative factor price equality across regions that is valid under general assumptions about production, markets and factors. Application of this methodology to the United States reveals substantial and increasing deviations in relative...

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The spatial sorting and matching of skills and firms

Mion, Giordano; Naticchioni, Paolo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

In this paper we make use of a matched employer-employee database for Italy to look at the spatial distribution of wages. Using this rich database we aim to open up the black box of agglomeration economies exploiting the micro dimension of interaction among economic agents, both individuals and...

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Cities, matching and the productivity gains of agglomeration

Andersson, Fredrick; Burgess, Simon; Lane, Julia I. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

The striking geographical concentration of economic activities suggests that there are substantial benefits to agglomeration. However, the nature of those benefits remains unclear. In this paper we take advantage of a new dataset to quantify the role of one of the main contenders - the matching...

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Does cultural diversity help innovation in cities: evidence from London firms

Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

London is one of the world’s major cities, and one of its most diverse. London’s cultural diversity is widely seen as a social asset, but there is little hard evidence on its importance for the city’s businesses. Theory and evidence suggest various links between urban cultural diversity...

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Agricultural returns and conflict: quasi-experimental evidence from a policy intervention programme in Rwanda

Kondylis, Florence - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

In 1997 Rwanda introduced a re-settlement policy for refugees displaced during previous conflicts. We exploit geographic variation in the speed of implementation of this policy to investigate the impact of conflict-induced displacement and the re-settlement policy on household agricultural...

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