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Life satisfaction, ethnicity and neighbourhoods: is there an effect of neighbourhood ethnic composition on life satisfaction?

Knies, Gundi; Nandi, Alita; Platt, Lucinda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Using a rich, nationally representative data set with a large sample of minorities and matched small area characteristics, we explore differences in life satisfaction for ethnic groups living in UK. We test the hypothesis that minorities will be less satisfied, which will in part be explained by...

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Cross-country determinants of life satisfaction: exploring different determinants across groups in society

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper explores a wide range of cross-country determinants of life satisfaction exploiting a database of 90,000 observations in 70 countries. We distinguish four groups of aggregate variables as potential determinants of satisfaction: political, economic, institutional, and human development...

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The marginal utility of income

Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen J - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys … (which are based directly on the scale of reported happiness) could be biased upwards if true utility is convex with respect … to reported happiness. We find some evidence of such bias, but it is small—yielding a new estimated elasticity of 1 …

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Gender segregation in employment contracts

Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from the ECHPS. Women are over-represented in part-time jobs in all countries considered, but while in northern Europe such allocation roughly reflects women’s preferences and their...

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Survey on competing in network industries : firm strategies, market outcomes, and policy implications

Koski, Heli; Kretschmer, Tobias - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

We review the recent literature on market structure, firm strategies and public policy in network industries. In particular, we focus on the latest applied work, including case studies and empirical work as well as refinements of the established theoretical results. We group each set of results...

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Social Capital and Public Policy in Greece.

Paraskevopoulos, Christos J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Social capital has emerged as a key concept on the social sciences in general and political science/public policy in particular over the last two decades or so, because, by facilitating collective action among the actors, it leads to increased levels of performance in several public policy areas...

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The internationalisation of public welfare policy

Banks, James; Disney, Richard; Duncan, Alan; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

With increasing globalisation of knowledge, there are increased opportunities to 'learn' from the experience of policy interventions elsewhere. This paper presents evidence on the extent of international convergence in public policy, with particular focus on labour, welfare, savings and...

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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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Evaluating spatial policies

Gibbons, Steve; Overman, Henry G.; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

In most countries economic prosperity is very unevenly distributed across space: regions, cities and neighbourhoods seem to be very unequal, whether we look at average earnings, employment, education or almost any other socio-economic outcome. Regional, urban and neighbourhood policies are often...

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Decentralization and local service provision: what do we know?

Ahmad, Ehtisham; Brosio, Giorgio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

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