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funding process when student mobility between schools is limited by land market imperfections, and some aspects of educational …
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In this paper we examine links between pupil mobility and pupil and school characteristics at all levels of compulsory … schooling in England. We derive measures of mobility from two academic years of the Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC …
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substantial movements beneath the surface. The US and the UK underwent a process of income polarisation. For the study of mobility …, stochastic kernels are used, because standard approaches based on mobility indices and transition matrices, which group persons … into income classes of arbitrary size, lead to misleading conclusions. The measures attribute greater mobility to Germany …
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2014: - Blanden, J. & Macmillan, L. (2014) Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Help or Hindrance? CASEpaper …
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migration and is hindered by strict local land use control. Our findings imply that tight regulation may hamper metro area level …
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This review of recent contributions reveals common conclusions about the effects of integration on location. For high trade costs, the need to supply markets locally encourages firms to spread across different regions. Integration weakens the incentives for self-sufficiency and for intermediate...
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fall, increasing returns interacting with labour mobility and/or inout-output linkages between firms create a tendency for …
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London is one of the world’s major cities, and one of its most diverse. London’s cultural diversity is widely seen as a social asset, but there is little hard evidence on its importance for the city’s businesses. Theory and evidence suggest various links between urban cultural diversity...
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In this paper, using the framework of a Roy theoretical model, we examine the performance of return migrants in Albania. We ask two main questions: (i) Had they chosen not to migrate, what would be the performance of return migrants compared to the non-migrants? and (ii) What would be the...
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