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, degree class awarded, and Social Class of family background, ceteris paribus. Our results suggest that there is likely to be …
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Each year, many pregnant women fast from dawn to sunset during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Medical theory … fasting mainly occurring among women who, irrespective of fasting or not, would have had unhealthier children anyway. …
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There has been a growing literature in both the US (for example Haurin and Brasington 1996, and Black 1999) and the UK (for example Gibbons & Machin, 2003) that estimates the way in which school quality is capitalised into house prices. Cheshire and Sheppard 1995 and 1999 estimated hedonic...
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enable the poorest women to shift out of agricultural labor and into running small businesses. This shift, which persists and … disadvantaged women take on occupations which were the preserve of non-poor women, is shown to be a powerful means of transforming …
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framework combines family context, opportunity cost, and social-psychological perspectives. Each perspective has predictive … power. Race, ethnicity, gender, type of religious upbringing, parental education, and parental expectations for their child …’s education are aspects of family context that consistently show significant relationships with expectations and desires …
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National Business Survey. I construct measures of diversity and sameness across ethnicity and gender 'bases', alongside …
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A dynamic panel data model is considered that contains possibly stochastic individual components and a common fractional stochastic time trend. We propose four different ways of coping with the individual effects so as to estimate the fractional parameter. Like models with autoregressive...
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The paper uses two data sources to map trends in resource availability for trade unions in Britain. Union resources exist on the one hand in the form of subscription income and accumulated assets shown in union accounts and, on the other, establishment level resources provided by employers and...
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Incentive pay systems have undergone major changes in recent decades. This paper investigates use of incentive pay systems in British and French private sector establishments in 2004, focusing on payment-by-results, merit pay, and profit sharing, using British and French workplace surveys: WERS...
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Using data from large-scale establishment surveys in Britain and France, we show that incentive pay for non-managers is more widespread in France than in Britain. We explain this finding in terms of the ‘beneficial constraint’ arising from stronger employment protection in France, which...
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