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The shifting balance of private and public welfare activity in the United Kingdom, 1979 to 2007
Edmiston, Daniel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
updating the existing evidence with a snapshot of the welfare mix in 2007/2008 across five different welfare sectors: Education …, Health, Housing, Income Maintenance and Social Security and Personal Social Services. The paper systematically explores who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744869
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The changing architecture of the UK welfare state
Hills, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
This article looks at the way in which the role of the state has evolved within different aspects of welfare activity (broadly defined) in the United Kingdom since 1979 and forward to the possible impacts of the plans of the Coalition government that took office in 2010 for changing that role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745960
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Cross-national rankings of intergenerational mobility: a comparison of approaches from economics and sociology
Blanden, Jo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
mobility is negatively correlated with inequality and the return to education but positively correlated with a nation …, education or social class. The literatures on education and income mobility reveal a similar ranking with South America, other … second part of the paper looks for explanations for the differences in earnings and education persistence and finds that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126209
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Dynastic management
Caselli, Francesco; Gennaioli, Nicola - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
failure of meritocracy that reduces a firm’s Total Factor Productivity. We present a simple model that studies the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928662
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Economics and politics of alternative institutional reforms
Caselli, Francesco; Gennaioli, Nicola - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
firms (entrepreneurship) and the average quality of management (meritocracy). Legal reform also reduces financial … improve meritocracy at the expense of entrepreneurship. As a result, legal reform encounters less political opposition than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071299
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What happens when employers are free to discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League
Bryson, Alex; Chevalier, Arnaud - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Research on employers’ hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League, where employers can freely exercise their taste for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126485
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The antinomies of audit: opacity, instability and charisma in the economic governance of a Hooghly shipyard
Bear, Laura - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper rethinks audit regimes from the shadow-land of outsourcing in India. This is the arena of informalized work environments that are connected to global value chains and the revenue streams of an extractive liberalization state focused on public debt repayment. Based on ethnography of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126585
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When work disappears: new implications for race and urban poverty in the global economy
Wilson, William Julius - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998
interaction between these levels and the intergenerational repercussions that result. The paper goes on to look at race in this … context, identifying a new form of cultural racism. It examines the way race becomes an issue as black people become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126701
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WAGES AND HOUSE PRICES: CROSS-SECTION EVIDENCE
BLANCHFLOWER, D.; OSWALD, A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1989
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005776300
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Decomposing the growth in residential land in the United States
Overman, Henry G.; Puga, Diego; Turner, Matthew A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
This paper decomposes the growth in land occupied by residences in the United States to give the relative contributions of changing demographics versus changes in residential land per household. Between 1976 and 1992 the amount of residential land in the United States grew 47.7% while population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746285