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Social networks and technology adoption in Northern Mozambique

Bandiera, Oriana; Rasul, Imran - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Despite their potentially strong impact on poverty, agricultural innovations are often adopted slowly. Using a unique household dataset on sunflower adoption in Mozambique, we analyse whether and how individual adoption decisions depend upon the choices of others in the same social networks....

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Do friends and relatives really help in getting a good job?

Pellizzari, Michele - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Informal contacts are extensively used by both firms and workers to find jobs and fill vacancies. The common wisdom in the economic literature is that jobs created through this channel are of better quality and pay higher wages than jobs created through formal methods. This paper explores the...

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The structure of online activism

Lewis, Kevin; Gray, Kurt; Meierhenrich, Jens - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Despite the tremendous amount of attention that has been paid to the internet as a tool for civic engagement, we still have little idea how “active” is the average online activist or how social networks matter in facilitating electronic protest. In this paper, we use complete records on the...

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Community networks and poverty reduction programmes: evidence from Bangladesh

Bandiera, Oriana; Gulesci, Selim; Rasul, Imran; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Whether basic entrepreneurship can be inculcated amongst the poorest in society and serve as a route out of poverty remains an open question. We provide evidence on this issue by looking at the effects of a large-scale asset transfer and training programme which is targeted at the poorest women...

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The territorial dynamics of innovation in China and India

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Storper, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This article analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in …

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An 'integrated' framework for the comparative analysis of the territorial innovation dynamics of developed and emerging countries

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

conceptual framework to explain the differences between innovation systems and their geography by drawing on elements of … endogenous growth, new economic geography and regional innovation systems. This framework forms the basis of the subsequent …

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Cross-generation correlations of union status for young people in Britain

Blanden, Jo; Machin, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper investigates whether young people whose fathers are union members are themselves more likely to join a union. We find that young people with unionized fathers are twice as likely to be unionized as those with non-union fathers and that this rises to three times higher for those whose...

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Cross-generation correlations of union status for young people in Britain

Blanden, Jo; Machin, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

In this paper we investigate whether young people whose fathers are union members are themselves more likely to join a union. The work builds upon a large social science literature on intergenerational mobility that, to our knowledge, has not been applied to industrial relations questions. The...

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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 …

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Employment patterns in OECD countries

Nickell, Stephen; Nunziata, Luca - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i …) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no … evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by employment protection; (iii) union density and coverage are negatively …

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