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Membership has its priveleges : the effect of social capital and neighbourhood characteristics on the earnings of microfinance borrowers

Gomez, Rafael; Santor, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

and neighbourhood effects are integrated in an attempt to account for earnings differentials amongst a unique sample of … capital is a positive determinant of self-employment earnings. It also highlights the role that neighbourhoods play in …

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Does self-employment measure entrepreneurship? evidence from Great Britain

Faggio, Giulia; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Research on entrepreneurship often uses information on self-employment to proxy for business creation and innovative behaviour. However, little evidence has been collected on the link between these measures. In this paper, we use data from the UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) combined with data from...

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Self-employment and entrepreneurship in urban and rural labour markets

Faggio, Giulia; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We study the link between self-employment and some salient aspects of entrepreneurship – namely business creation and innovation – in urban and rural labour markets. In order to do so, we combine individual and firm-level data for Britain aggregated at the Travel-to-Work Area level. We find...

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The economic situation of first- and second-generation immigrants in France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Algan, Yann; Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

countries in terms of education, earnings, and employment. …

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Impact of work experience and training in the current and previous occupations on earnings: micro evidence from the national longitudinal survey of youth

Dougherty, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

In the empirical literature on work experience, job tenure, training and earnings, only one previous study has made a … training and vocational institute training for the current occupation have highly significant effects on earnings, with work … significantly negative effect on the earnings of those with high cognitive test scores, the previous-occupation counterparts do not …

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Numeracy, literacy and earnings: evidence from the national longitudinal survey of youth

Dougherty, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

The analysis is concerned with the contributions of numeracy and literacy to earnings, for three reasons: first, no … the contributions of numeracy and literacy as reflected in earnings. The results suggest that numeracy has a highly … significant effect on earnings, mostly through its effect on college attainment, but also directly, controlling for attainment …

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Do women earn less even as social entrepreneurs?

Estrin, Saul; Stephan, Ute; Vujić, Sunčica - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Based upon unique survey data collected using respondent driven sampling methods, we investigate whether there is a gender pay gap among social entrepreneurs in the UK. We find that women as social entrepreneurs earn 29% less than their male colleagues, above the average UK gender pay gap of...

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Biomarkers and long-term labour market outcomes: the case of creatine

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Hakulinen, Christian; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

I evaluate the impact of the UK Working Time Regulations 1998, which introduced mandatory paid holiday entitlement. The regulation gave (nearly) all workers the right to a minimum of 4 weeks of paid holiday per a year. With constant weekly pay this change amounts effectively to an increase in...

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It’s where you work: increases in earnings dispersion across establishments and individuals in the US

Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Davis, James C.; Freeman, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

earnings among individuals into the part due to changes in earnings among establishments and the part due to changes in … earnings within-establishments and finds that much of the 1970s-2010s increase in earnings inequality results from increased … dispersion of the earnings among the establishments where individuals work. It also shows that the divergence of establishment …

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