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Changes in returns to education in Latin America: the role of demand and supply of skills
Manacorda, Marco; Sanchez-Paramo, Carolina; Schady, Norbert - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
Changes in the relative wages of workers with different amounts of education have profound implications for developing countries, where initial levels of inequality are often very high. In this paper we use micro data for five Latin American countries over the 1980s and 1990s to document trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745530
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Education, inequality and income inequality
Checchi, Daniele - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
In this paper we propose to measure inequality of educational achievements by constructing a Gini index on educational attainments. We then use the proposed measure to analyse the relationship between inequality in incomes and educational achievements (in terms of both the average attainments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745976
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Productivity as if space mattered: an application to factor markets across China
Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
Optimal production decisions depend on local market characteristics. This paper develops a model to explain firm labor demand and firm density across regions. Firms vary in their technology to combine imperfectly substitutable worker types, and locate across regions with distinct distributions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746456
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Convergence of firm-level productivity, globalisation, information technology and competition: evidence from France
Chevalier, Paul-Antoine; Lecat, Rémy; Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … level. This article sheds light on this convergence process in the 1990s and the 2000s in France and on some of the factors … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744856
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Self-selection and the performance of return migrants: the source country perspective
De Coulon, Augustin; Piracha, Matloob - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
In this paper, using the framework of a Roy theoretical model, we examine the performance of return migrants in Albania. We ask two main questions: (i) Had they chosen not to migrate, what would be the performance of return migrants compared to the non-migrants? and (ii) What would be the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746106
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Conflict-induced displacement and labour market outcomes: evidence from post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kondylis, Florence - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
This study uses a longitudinal data source to study the effects of conflict-induced displacement on labour market outcomes for Bosnians in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina. To account for endogeneity in the displacement status, I exploit the fact that the level of violence in the pre-war...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746697
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Ambition, human capital acquisition and the metropolitan escalator
Gordon, Ian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This paper examines the relation between ambition, as a form of dynamic human capital, and the escalator role of high order metropolitan regions, as originally identified by Fielding (1989). It argues that occupational progression in such places particularly depends on concentrations both of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746485
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Ambition, human capital acquisition and the metropolitan escalator
Gordon, Ian R. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
This paper examines the relation between ambition, as a form of dynamic human capital, and the escalator role of high-order metropolitan regions, as originally identified by A. J. Fielding. It argues that occupational progression in such places particularly depends on concentrations both of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125904
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Networks in the premodern economy: the market for London apprenticeships, 1600-1749
Leunig, Tim; Minns, Chris; Wallis, Patrick - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
This paper examines the importance of social and geographical networks in structuring entry into skilled occupations in premodern London. Using newly digitised records of those beginning an apprenticeship in London between 1600 and 1749, we find little evidence that networks strongly shaped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746261
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Crime and immigration: evidence from large immigrant waves
Bell, Brian; Machin, Stephen; Fasani, Francesco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745408