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Apprenticeship policy in England: increasing skills versus boosting young people’s job prospects
Steedman, Hilary - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Successive British governments have committed substantial public resources to apprentice training, but far too few young people benefit and not enough high value skills have been developed. That is the central conclusion of a new report published by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP). The...
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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
, 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 … mobility is negatively correlated with inequality and the return to education but positively correlated with a nation …
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Neighbourhood effects in small neighbourhoods
Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
This paper uses data on a sample of Australian teenagers to test for neighbourhood effects on school dropout rates. The data allows us to test for neighbourhood effects at two different spatial scales. We find that educational composition of the larger neighbourhood can influence the dropout...
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The impact of vocational qualifications on the labour market outcomes of low-achieving school-leavers
McIntosh, Steven - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
This paper creates a pseudo cohort of individuals who left school in the mid-1990s, using Labour Force Survey. The extent of low achievement at school amongst this group is documented, and then the impact of such low achievement on labour force status is estimated. The main focus of the paper is...
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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...
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Access all areas? The impact of fees and background on student demand for postgraduate higher education in the UK
Wales, Philip - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper analyses participation in postgraduate higher education in the UK at the micro-level makes several …
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Intergenerational mobility in the United States and Great Britain: a comparative study of parent-child pathways
Blanden, Jo; Haveman, Robert; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
pathways by which parental status is related to offspring status, including education, labor market attachment, occupation … because of the higher returns to education and skills, the pathway through offspring education is relatively more important …
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Why are higher skilled workers more mobile geographically?: the role of the job surplus
Amior, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
The skill gap in geographical mobility is entirely driven by workers who report moving for a new job. A natural explanation lies in the large expected surplus accruing to skilled job matches. Just as large surpluses ease the frictions which impede job search in general, they also help overcome...
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Immigration to the land of redistribution
Boeri, Tito - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
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Efficiency wages and the economic effects of the minimum wage: evidence from a low-wage labour market
Georgiadis, Andreas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
We exploit a natural experiment provided by the 1990 introduction of the UK National Minimum Wage (NMW) to investigate the relationship between wages and monitoring and to test for Efficiency Wages considerations in a low-wage sector, the UK residential care homes industry. Our findings seem to...
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