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A general analysis of sequential merger games with an application to cross-border mergers

Salvo, Alberto - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper seeks to uncover why the pattern of equilibria in sequential merger games of a certain type is similar …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745143

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 analysis is used to try and uncover the factors which may be driving the emergence of the gender gaps. Drawing on household expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich...

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The impact of mandatory entitlement to paid leave on employment in the UK

Lembcke, Alexander - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

treatment. Adjustments in wages cannot explain this result as they are increasing for the treated groups relative to the control …

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Does the labour market explain lower female schooling in India?

Gandhi Kingdon, Geeta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

Labour market discrimination against women and parental discrimination against daughters are two of the most commonly cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market explanation for India using household survey data...

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What happens when employers are free to discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League

Bryson, Alex; Chevalier, Arnaud - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Research on employers’ hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League, where employers can freely exercise their taste for...

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The effect of public sector employment on local labour markets

Faggio, Giulia; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper considers the impact of public sector employment on local labour markets. Using English data at the Local Authority level for 2003–2007 we find that public sector employment has no identifiable effect on total private sector employment. However, public sector employment does affect...

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A picture of job insecurity facing British men

Nickell, Stephen; Jones, Tracy; Quintini, Glenda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

becoming unemployed, the costs of unemployment in terms of real wages losses and the probability that the continuously employed …

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Wage equations, wage curves and all that

Bell, Brian; Nickell, Stephen; Quintini, Glenda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper is concerned with the relationship between wages and unemployment. Using UK regions and individuals as the … unemployment and wages or wage changes? Second, can we identify the relationship completely by looking at regional wages and … regional unemployment or do regional wages depend on aggregate unemployment as well? Third, are wages influenced only by the …

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The relative economic importance of academic, psychological and behavioural attributes developed on childhood

Feinstein, Leon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper makes use of the substantial information about the psychological and behavioural development of children by age ten in the 1970 Cohort to predict later, economic outcomes, namely qualifications, employment and earnings. It is found that this previously unobserved individual...

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Accounting for big-city growth in low-paid occupations: immigration and/or service-class consumption

Gordon, Ian; Kaplanis, Ioannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

The growth of “global cities” in the 1980s was supposed to have involved an occupational polarization, including the increase in low-paid service jobs. Although held to be untrue for European cities at the time, some such growth did emerge in London a decade later than first reported for New...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126623

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