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Can labour regulation hinder economic performance? Evidence from India

Besley, Timothy; Burgess, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper investigates whether the industrial relations climate in Indian States has affected the pattern of manufacturing growth in the period 1958-92. We show that pro-worker amendments to the Industrial Disputes Act are associated with lowered investment, employment, productivity and output...

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Nationalism, urban poverty and identity in Maputo, Mozambique

Sumich, Jason - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper examines the changing perceptions of Frelimo's nationalist project amongst members of the middle class in Maputo, Mozambique's capital. I argue that nationalism in Mozambique created a system of meaning and new forms of identity that are especially relevant for more privileged...

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When work disappears: new implications for race and urban poverty in the global economy

Wilson, William Julius - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

This paper discusses the impact of growing joblessness and dwindling work opportunities on inner-city areas in America. The lack of low-skilled manual work in the inner city is linked to poverty, crime, family dissolution and the social life of neighbourhoods. The paper discusses this impact at...

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Evaluation via extended orderings: empirical findings from west and east

Gaertner, Wulf; Jungeilges, Jochen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

The theoretical background of the empirical investigations to be reported in this paper are positionalist aggregation functions which are numerically representable. More concretely, the broad Borda rule is proposed as an aggregation mechanism for the case of a complete set (profile) of so-called...

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Crisis Social Policy and Social Justice: the case for Greece

Venieris, Dimitris - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper explores the potential contribution of social justice and social policy for an equitable recovery from the … crisis in the case of Greece. The first part discusses some theoretical dimensions of social justice focusing on its … interrelation with social policy. Social justice is a contested theoretical concept in social and political theory, and a powerful …

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Optimal control of externalities in the presence of income taxation

Kaplow, Louis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

AA substantial literature examines second-best environmental policy, focusing particularly on how the Pigouvian directive that marginal taxes should equal marginal external harms needs to be modified in light of the preexisting distortion due to labor income taxation. Additional literature is...

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Distributional orderings: an approach with seven flavours

Amiel, Yoram; Cowell, Frank; Gaertner, Wulf - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

flavours include inequality, risk, social welfare and justice. The issue of personal involvement in the distributional …

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Deep uncertainty in long-term hurricane risk: scenario generation and implications for future climate experiments

Ranger, Nicola; Niehörster, Falk - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Current projections of long-term trends in Atlantic hurricane activity due to climate change are deeply uncertain, both in magnitude and sign. This creates challenges for adaptation planning in exposed coastal communities. We present a framework to support the interpretation of current long-term...

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