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The unemployment volatility puzzle: is wage stickiness the answer?
Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
the model’s failure to match the observed cyclical volatility of unemployment.. Job creation in the model is influenced by … are consistent with the evidence. Therefore explanations of the unemployment volatility puzzle have to preserve the … cyclical volatility of wages. I discuss some extensions of the model that can increase cyclical unemployment volatility through …
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Employment after motherhood: a European comparison
Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
There is theoretical evidence that economic and family policies have an important impact on mother''s employment. The aim of this article is to study empirically the women''s transitions from employment to non-employment after they have their first birth in Belgium, West-Germany, Italy, Spain...
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Employment penalty after motherhood in Spain
Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper investigates whether there exists an employment penalty from motherhood in Spain. In particular, we are interested in transitions from employment to non-employment and downward occupational mobility. Results show that Spanish women experience significant transitions from employment to...
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The impact of the labour market on the timing of marriage and births in Spain
Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
.e. high unemployment rates and fixedterm contracts) postpone childbearing. We test if female employment (full and part …. From our male sample analysis we learn that male unemployment, at the individual level, impacts negatively on fertility …
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Informal employment in countries in transition: a conceptual framework
Bernabe, Sabine - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
In the past few years the informal sector in countries in transition has increasingly become the focus of research, public policy and the media. The term ¿informal sector¿ has been used to describe an extremely wide spectrum of activities, which do not necessarily have much in common, such as...
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From Russia with love: the impact of relocated firms on incumbent survival
Falck, Oliver; Guenther, Christina; Heblich, Stephan; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions...
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The cost of grade retention
Manacorda, Marco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
This paper uses administrative longitudinal micro data on the universe of Junior High school students in Uruguay to measure the effect of grade failure on students' subsequent school outcomes. Exploiting the discontinuity induced by a rule establishing automatic grade failure for pupils missing...
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Labour force participation of women in India: some facts, some queries
Bhalla, Surjit; Kaur, Ravinder - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
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Migrant diversity, migration motivations and early integration: the case of Poles in Germany, the Netherlands, London and Dublin
Luthra, Renee; Platt, Lucinda; Salamońska, Justyna - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
The expansion of the European Union eastwards in 2004, with an ensuing massive increase in East-West migration from the accession countries has been represented as a new migration system of a kind unique in recent migration history, with its specific features of rights of movement and low...
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Intergenerational mobility in the United States and Great Britain: a comparative study of parent-child pathways
Blanden, Jo; Haveman, Robert; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We build on cross-national research to examine the relationships underlying estimates of relative intergenerational mobility in the United States and Great Britain using harmonized longitudinal data and focusing on men. We examine several pathways by which parental status is related to offspring...
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