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Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

discussed include improving education and overall well-being for children in the lower part of the ability range, raising wage …

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Helter skelter: families, disabled children and the benefit system

Preston, Gabrielle - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disability benefits … experience of applying for disability living allowance (DLA) and how they use additional benefit income. Families report that DLA …

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Parental investment in childhood and later adult well-being: can more involved parents offset the effects of socioeconomic disadvantage?

Hango, Darcy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

type of involvement and the gender of the parent. Father interest in education has the strongest impact on earlier poverty …, especially at age 11. Meanwhile, both father and mother interest in school at age 16 have the largest direct impact on education …. The frequency of outings with mother at age 11 also has a larger direct impact on education than outings with father …

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Immigration, the European union and the UK labour market

Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

During periods of strong economic growth, migration is and has always been important for filling gaps in the labour market. On balance, the evidence for the UK labour market suggests that fears about adverse consequences of rising immigration in general and EU immigration in particular have...

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Internationalization and innovation of firms: evidence and policy

Altomonte, Carlo; Aquilante, Tommaso; Békés, Gábor; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We use a representative and cross-country comparable sample of manufacturing firms (EFIGE) to document patterns of interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom). We...

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Modelling vulnerability in the UK

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

In this paper we examine the concept of "vulnerability" (Townsend 1994) within the context of income mobility of the poor. We test for the dynamics of vulnerable households in the UK using Waves 1 - 12 of the British Household Panel Survey and find that, of three different types of risks that we...

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Mixed dominance: a new criterion for poverty analysis

Howes, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1993

The second-order stochastic dominance criterion for inequality analysis introduced by Atkinson (1970) covers nearly all well-known inequality indices. The same cannot be said, in respect of poverty indices, for the second-order stochastic dominance criterion for poverty analysis introduced by...

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Sustainability and well-being indicators

Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper provides a review and critical discussion of indicators, which attempt to combine the measurement of sustainability with that of well-being. It starts with some commonly agreed definitions of sustainability, showing how most well-being indicators tell us little if anything at all...

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Static and dynamic poverty in Spain, 1993-2000

Barcena, E; Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We focus on the statics and dynamics of poverty in Spain using data from the first eight waves of the European Community Household Panel from 1994 to 2001, a period not sufficiently covered by recent literature. The results confirm the pattern of poverty changes noted by other authors for the...

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Socio-economic status and child behaviour: evidence from a contemporary UK cohort

Propper, Carol; Rigg, John A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper examines whether and how socio-economic status is associated with children’s behavioural development in today’s children. Using a large cohort of English children born in the early 1990s we find significant social inequalities in several dimensions of child behaviour at age 7. We...

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