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Does better rail access improve homeowners’ happiness?: evidence based on micro surveys in Beijing
Wu, Wenjie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Development of urban transport infrastructures is a key policy focus---particularly in countries like China which have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126107
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Land reform, poverty reduction and growth : evidence from India
Besley, Timothy; Burgess, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998
In recent times there has been a renewed interest in relationships between redistribution, growth and welfare. Land reforms have been central to strategies to improve the asset base of the poor in developing countries thought their effectiveness has been hindered by political constraints on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746031
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Privatization, entry regulation and the decline of labor's share of GDP: a cross-country analysis of the network industries
Azmat, Ghazala; Manning, Alan; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
-experiment in the OECD: the privatization of many network industries (e.g. telecommunications and utilities). We present a model … labor share, employment and wages respond to privatization and other regulatory changes. We exploit cross-country panel data … on several network industries and find that privatization can account for a significant proportion of the fall of labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746486
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The political economy of government responsiveness: theory and evidence from India
Besley, Timothy; Burgess, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
The determinants of government responsiveness to its citizens is a key issue in political economy. Here we develop a model based on the solution of political agency problems. Having a more informed an politically active electorate strengthens incentives for governments to be responsive. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928605
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Modernisation and son preference
Burgess, Robin; Zhuang, Juzhong - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
Gaps in welfare attainment between boys and girls in China have attracted international attention. In this paper demand … girls. Taken together, the results suggest that son preference in rural China is not driven solely by cultural factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928624
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Coordinating tasks in M-form and U-form organisations
Qian, Yingyi; Roland, Gerard; Xu, Cheng-Gang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
more innovation and reform. The theory is illustrated by the organisational differences between China and the former Soviet … approach in China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928762
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Does public investment spur the land market?: evidence from transport improvement in Beijing
Wu, Wenjie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
policy making in China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125946
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Profit share and returns on capital stock in Italy: the role of privatisations behind the rise of the 1990s
Torrini, Roberto - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
Profit share in Italy has been growing between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s, remaining stable at historically high levels since than. After dropping in the first half of the 1070s, owing to an unprecedented rapid rise in wages, profit share started to recover. The rise during the 1980s...
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Changes in wage inequality
Machin, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
We examine trends in wage inequality in the US and other countries over the past four decades. We show that there has been a secular increase in the 90-50 wage differential in the US and the UK since the late 1970s. By contrast the 50-10 differential rose mainly in the 1980s and flattened or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746032
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Do women earn less even as social entrepreneurs?
Estrin, Saul; Stephan, Ute; Vujić, Sunčica - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Based upon unique survey data collected using respondent driven sampling methods, we investigate whether there is a gender pay gap among social entrepreneurs in the UK. We find that women as social entrepreneurs earn 29% less than their male colleagues, above the average UK gender pay gap of...
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