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Is there an impact of household computer ownership on children's educational attainment in Britain?
Schmitt, John; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
If personal computers (PCs) are used to enhance learning and information gathering across a variety of subjects, then a home computer might reasonably be considered an input in an educational production function. Using data on British youths from the British Household Panel Survey between 1991...
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The interrelationship between HR, strategy and profitability in service SMEs: empirical evidence from the UK tourism hospitality and leisure sector
Georgiadis, Andreas; Pitelis, Christos N. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
We investigate the strategies, HR attributes and their synergies that are associated with superior performance in service SMEs using data from the UK Tourism Hospitality and Leisure (THL) sector. A major advantage of our analysis is that our sample includes information also on very small firms...
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The impact of wealth on consumption and retirement behaviour in the UK
Blake, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
Housing and pension wealth are shown to be important determinants of personal sector consumption and retirement … promotes greater savings. Greater private defined benefit pension wealth encourages earlier retirement, while greater de …¯ned contribution pension wealth has the e®ect of delaying retirement. State pension wealth appears to have no effect on the retirement …
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The long-term consequences of regional specialization
Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
The Long-Term Consequences of Regional Specialization* What are the consequences of resource-based regional specialization, when it persists over a long period of time? While much of the literature argues that specialization is beneficial, recent work suggests it may be costly in the long run,...
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The long term consequences of resource based specialization
Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
The Long-Term Consequences of Regional Specialization* What are the consequences of resource-based regional specialization, when it persists over a long period of time? While much of the literature argues that specialization is beneficial, recent work suggests it may be costly in the long run,...
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Conscience accounting: emotional dynamics and social behaviour
Madarász, Kristóf; Gneezy, Uri; Imas, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
We develop a simple dynamic model of decision making in the presence of moral constraints. Norm violations induce a temporal feeling of guilt that depreciates with time. Due to endogenous fluctuations of guilt, people exhibit a dynamic inconsistency in social preferences—a behavior we term...
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Employment and taxes
Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
This paper considers the impact of taxation policy on market work. On the basis of the evidence, we find that a 10 percentage point rise in the tax wedge will reduce overall labour input provided via the market by around 2 per cent of the population of working age. The tax wedge is the sum of...
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The part-time pay penalty
Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
Women working part-time in the UK have hourly earnings that are on average 26 percent less than women working fulltime. Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo investigate what's behind this part-time pay penalty.
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The long term impacts of compulsory schooling: evidence from a natural experiment in school leaving dates
Del Bono, Emilia; Galindo-Rueda, Fernando - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
This paper investigates a unique feature of the English educational system to estimate the causal effect of compulsory schooling on labour market outcomes. We examine school leaving rules that allow for discrete variation in exit dates by date of birth within school cohorts. This natural...
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The part-time pay penalty
Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
In 2003, women working part-time in the UK earned, on average, 22% less than women working full-time. Compared to women who work FT, PT women are more likely to have low levels of education, to be in a couple, to have young and numerous children, to work in small establishments in distribution,...
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