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Worktime regulations and spousal labor supply

Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We study interdependencies in spousal labor supply by exploiting the design of the French workweek reduction, which introduced exogenous variation in one's spouse's labor supply, at constant earnings. Treated employees work on average two hours less per week. Husbands of treated women respond by...

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Gender discrimination and growth: theory and evidence from India

Esteve-Volart, Berta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

discrimination is an inefficient practice. We model gender discrimination as the complete exclusion of females from the labor market … and unskilled positions, and in human capital investment, are analyzed. It is found that both types of discrimination … allocation of talent. Both types of discrimination imply lower female-to-male schooling ratios. We discuss the sustainability of …

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Political Discrimination in the Aftermath of Violence: the case of the Greek riots.

Hugh-Jones, David; Katsanidou, Alexia; Riener, Gerhard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

We examine discrimination against outgroups in the context of the December 2008 riots in Greece after the killing of a … police, in modified Dictator games, allowing us to test theories of discrimination on behavior with real payoff consequences …. Treatments examined the effect of in-group norms and environmental cues on discrimination. We find that cues in the environment …

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Unions and the sword of justice: unions and pay systems, pay inequality, pay discrimination and low pay

Metcalf, David; Hansen, Kirstine; Charlwood, Andy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

Dispersion in pay is lower among union members than among non-unionists. This reflects two factors. First, union members and jobs are more homogeneous than their non-union counterparts. Second, union wage policies within and across firms lower pay dispersion. Unions'' minimum wage targets also...

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When work disappears: racial prejudice and recession labour market penalties

Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper assesses whether racial prejudice and labour market discrimination is counter-cyclical. This may occur if … prejudice and discrimination are partly driven by competition over scarce resources, which intensifies during periods of …

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Reviewing the terms of inclusion: transactional processes, currencies and context

Witcher, Sally - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

or currencies) and discrimination (failure to enable, recognize, or act consistently upon, the presentation of currencies … construed, or misconstrued. A typology of discrimination is described, along with its potential exclusory outcomes. Yet, changes …

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A general framework for analysing endogenous trade divergences

Walsh, Patrick - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1991

determined by the maximum potential profitability of the home industry. It is argued that interpretations based on ?profit …

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The interrelationship between HR, strategy and profitability in service SMEs: empirical evidence from the UK tourism hospitality and leisure sector

Georgiadis, Andreas; Pitelis, Christos N. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

We investigate the strategies, HR attributes and their synergies that are associated with superior performance in service SMEs using data from the UK Tourism Hospitality and Leisure (THL) sector. A major advantage of our analysis is that our sample includes information also on very small firms...

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The impact of the diffusion of a financial innovation on company performance: an analysis of SWIFT adoption

Scott, Susan V.; Zachariadis, Markos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

1,689 SWIFT adopters) between 1998 and2005. We find that adoption appears to have large effects on profitability, but it … between new technologies and firm organization. The profitability effectoperates by both raising sales and decreasing …

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