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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

This paper summarizes research on the relative level of intergenerational mobility – whether classified by income, education or social class. The literatures on education and income mobility reveal a similar ranking with South America, other developing nations, southern European countries and...

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Concentration versus re-matching? Evidence about the locational effects of commuting costs

Boehm, Michael J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Using administrative employer-employee data from Germany, I exploit two reductions of tax breaks for commuting in 2003/4 and 2006/7 to estimate commuting costs’ effect on the decision to switch job and move house. Standard theory predicts that higher commuting costs should lead to increased...

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A general method for valuing non-market goods using wellbeing data: three-stage wellbeing valuation

Fujiwara, Daniel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Subjective wellbeing data is becoming increasingly popular in economics research. The wellbeing valuation approach uses wellbeing data instead of data gleaned from preferences to attach monetary values to non-market goods. This method could be an important alternative to preference-based...

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On the relative gains to immigration: a comparison of the labour market position of Indians in the USA, the UK and India

De Coulon, Augustin; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

While most studies of the decision to immigrate focus on the absolute income differences between countries, we argue that relative change in purchasing power or status, as captured by an individual’s ranking in the wage distribution, may also be important. This will in turn be influenced by...

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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 …

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The impact of policy change on job retention and advancement

Dickins, Richard; McKnight, Abigail - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper examines the impact of the Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC) on employment retention and advancement. The WFTC, which replaced Family Credit in October 1999, supplemented earnings of low paid workers living in low income families. It was designed to increase the financial incentive...

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The impact of policy change on job retention and advancement

Dickins, Richard; McKnight, Abigail - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

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Rise of the machines: the effects of labor-saving innovations on jobs and wages

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

complexity and its training requirements. When two tasks are equally complex, firms will automate the task that requires more … training and in which labor is hence more expensive. Under quite general conditions this leads to job polarization, a decline …. The model makes novel predictions regarding occupational training requirements, which we find to be consistent with US …

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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...

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Team leadership in the intensive care unit: the perspective of specialists

Reader, Tom W.; Flin, Rhona; Cuthbertson, Brian H. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

intensive care unit team leaders and have implications for the development of team leadership training and assessment tools. …

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