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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...

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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...

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How far do England’s second-order cities emulate London as human-capital ‘escalators’?

Champion, Tony; Coombes, Mike; Gordon, Ian R. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

just one ‘escalator region’ where the rate of career progression is much faster, especially for in-migrants. This paper … Collar Core. For non- migrants, the transition rates for all the second-order cities are found to fall well short of London … during the decade experienced much stronger upward social mobility than their non-migrants. This ‘migrant premium’ was …

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Ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation in the UK: evidence from patents microdata

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …

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Immigration, offshoring, and American jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Gregory - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

workers of varying skill in order to develop and test predictions regarding the effects of immigration and offshoring on US … effect of offshoring and a positive effect of immigration on native-born employment suggest that immigration and offshoring …

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Why are higher skilled workers more mobile geographically?: the role of the job surplus

Amior, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

The skill gap in geographical mobility is entirely driven by workers who report moving for a new job. A natural explanation lies in the large expected surplus accruing to skilled job matches. Just as large surpluses ease the frictions which impede job search in general, they also help overcome...

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To leave or not to leave? A regression discontinuity analysis of the impact of failing the High School exit exam

Ou, Dongshu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

The high school exit exam (HSEE) is rapidly becoming a standardized assessment procedure for educational accountability in the United States. I use a unique state-specific dataset to identify the effect of failing the HSEE on the likelihood that a student drops out early based on a Regression...

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Keeping it simple: financial literacy and rules of thumb

Drexler, Alejandro; Fischer, Gregory; Schoar, Antoinette - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Individuals and business owners engage in an increasingly complex array of financial decisions that are critical for their success and well-being. Yet a growing literature documents that in both developed and developing countries, a large fraction of the population is unprepared to make these...

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Quality matters: the expulsion of professors and Ph.D. student outcomes in Nazi Germany

Waldinger, Fabian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

I investigate the effect of faculty quality on Ph.D. student outcomes. To address the endogeneity of faculty quality I use exogenous variation provided by the expulsion of mathematics professors in Nazi Germany. I find that faculty quality is a very important determinant of short and long run...

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Close neighbours matter: neighbourhood effects on early performance at school

Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Children’s outcomes are strongly correlated with those of their neighbours. The extent to which this is causal is the subject of an extensive literature. An identification problem exists because people with similar characteristics are observed to live in close proximity. Another major...

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