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Peer effects in science: evidence from the dismissal of scientists in Nazi Germany
Waldinger, Fabian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
This paper analyzes peer effects among university scientists. Specifically, it investigates whether the number of peers and their average quality affects the productivity of researchers in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The usual endogeneity problems related to estimating peer effects are...
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126167
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126243
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Parental investment in childhood and later adult well-being: can more involved parents offset the effects of socioeconomic disadvantage?
Hango, Darcy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
type of involvement and the gender of the parent. Father interest in education has the strongest impact on earlier poverty …, especially at age 11. Meanwhile, both father and mother interest in school at age 16 have the largest direct impact on education …. The frequency of outings with mother at age 11 also has a larger direct impact on education than outings with father …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126544
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Reconciling workless measures at the individual and household level: theory and evidence from the United States, Britain, Germany, Spain and Australia
Gregg, Paul; Scutella, Rosanna; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
Individual and household based aggregate measures of worklessness can, and do, offer conflicting signals about labour market performance. We outline a means of quantifying the extent of any disparity, (polarisation), in the signals stemming from individual and household-based measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744988
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Are you happy while you work?
Bryson, Alex; MacKerron, George - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Recent work in psychology and economics has investigated ways in which individuals experience their lives. This literature includes influences on individuals’ momentary happiness. We contribute to this literature using a new data source, Mappiness (www.mappiness.org.uk), which permits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745240
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Monopsony and the efficiency of labour market interventions
Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
Implicit in many discussions of labour market policy is the assumption that, in the absence of interventions, the operation of the labour market is well-approximated by the perfectly competitive model. The merits or demerits of particular policies is then seen as a trade-off between efficiency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745358
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Imperfect competition in the labour market
Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
It is increasingly recognized that labour markets are pervasively imperfectly competitive, that there are rents to the employment relationship for both worker and employer. This chapter considers why it is sensible to think of labour markets as imperfectly competitive, reviews estimates on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745736
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On the game-theoretic foundations of competitive search equilibrium
Galenianos, Manolis; Kircher, Philipp - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
We provide a unified directed search framework with general production and matching specifications that encompass most of the existing literature. We prove the existence of subgame perfect Nash equilibria in pure firm strategies in a finite version of the model. We use this result to derive a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746108
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Educational attainment, labour market institutions, and the structure of production
Nickell, Stephen J; Redding, Stephen; Swaffield, Joanna - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
A key feature of OECD economic growth since the early 1970s has been the secular decline in manufacturing’s share of GDP and the secular rise of service sectors. This paper examines the role played by relative prices, technology, factor endowments, and labour market institutions in the process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746522