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Poverty and inequality and social policy in China
Li, Bingqin; Piachaud, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
social policies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined. The limitations of a social policy that … livelihood approach is analysed and its potential to reduce poverty and inequality are considered. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126132
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Sex in older age in rural Malawi
Freeman, Emily; Coast, Ernestina - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
This paper examines how older people living in rural Malawi explain and understand their sex lives. We present sex in this setting as a field in which broader understandings of ageing, aged identities, and conceptions of person- or adulthood in older age are played out and constructed....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125959
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The impact of community mobilisation on HIV prevention in middle and low income countries: a systematic review and critique
Cornish, Flora; Priego-Hernandez, Jacqueline; Campbell, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
While community mobilisation (CM) is increasingly advocated for HIV prevention, its impact on measurable outcomes has not been established. We performed a systematic review of the impact of CM within HIV prevention interventions (N = 20), on biomedical, behavioural and social outcomes. Among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126058
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Social policies and labor market outcomes in Latin America and the Caribbean: a review of the existing evidence
Bosch, Mariano; Manacorda, Marco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
Latin America and the Caribbean have become in the last decade or so a formidable laboratory for the design and implementation of innovative social policies. In the face of an unprecedented surge in the number of non-contributory social assistance benefit programs in the region, there is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126219
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Accounting for big-city growth in low-paid occupations: immigration and/or service-class consumption
Gordon, Ian; Kaplanis, Ioannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
The growth of “global cities” in the 1980s was supposed to have involved an occupational polarization, including the increase in low-paid service jobs. Although held to be untrue for European cities at the time, some such growth did emerge in London a decade later than first reported for New...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126623
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Employment outcomes in the welfare state
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
We examine the implications of tax and subsidy policies for employment in the “three worlds of welfare”, Anglo-Saxon, Continental European and Scandinavian. We argue that home production is key to a proper evaluation of the employment outcomes. Anglo-Saxon lowsupport policies encourage more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071076
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Employment outcomes in the welfare state
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
We examine the implications of tax and subsidy policies for employment in the “three worlds of welfare”, Anglo-Saxon, Continental European and Scandinavian. We argue that home production is key to a proper evaluation of the employment outcomes. Anglo-Saxon low-support policies encourage more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071508
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Giving a little help to girls? evidence on grade discrimination and its effect on students' achievement
Terrier, Camille - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … from a substantive positive discrimination in math but not in French. This bias is not explained by girls' better behavior … to show that classes in which teachers present a high degree of discrimination in favor of girls are also classes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266091
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Political Discrimination in the Aftermath of Violence: the case of the Greek riots.
Hugh-Jones, David; Katsanidou, Alexia; Riener, Gerhard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
We examine discrimination against outgroups in the context of the December 2008 riots in Greece after the killing of a … police, in modified Dictator games, allowing us to test theories of discrimination on behavior with real payoff consequences …. Treatments examined the effect of in-group norms and environmental cues on discrimination. We find that cues in the environment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008635789
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Unions and the sword of justice: unions and pay systems, pay inequality, pay discrimination and low pay
Metcalf, David; Hansen, Kirstine; Charlwood, Andy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
Dispersion in pay is lower among union members than among non-unionists. This reflects two factors. First, union members and jobs are more homogeneous than their non-union counterparts. Second, union wage policies within and across firms lower pay dispersion. Unions'' minimum wage targets also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746592