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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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The economics of pensions

Barr, Nicholas; Diamond, Peter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper sets out the economic analytics of pensions. After introductory discussion, successive sections consider the effects of different pension arrangements on labour markets, on national savings and growth, and on the distribution of burdens and benefits. These areas are controversial and...

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Consumption and savings with unemployment risk: implications for optimal employment contracts

Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper derives optimal employment contracts when workers are risk averse and there are employment and unemployment … risks. Without income insurance, consumption rises during employment and falls during unemployment. Optimal employment … dismissals are optimal if exogenous unemployment compensation is sufficiently generous. …

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Compensating wage differentials for defined benefit and defined contribution occupational pension scheme benefits

Inkmann, Joachim - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The theory of equalizing differences suggests that employer provided pension benefits should be compensated by reduced wage benefits for an employee’s given produc-tivity potential. This paper presents an empirical analysis of compensating wage differentials for occupational pension scheme...

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Do job security guarantees work?

Bryson, Alex; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lucifora, Claudio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

We investigate the effect of employer job security guarantees on employee perceptions of job security. Using linked employer-employee data from the 1998 British Workplace Employee Relations Survey, we find job security guarantees reduce employee perceptions of job insecurity. This finding is...

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The economic psychology of incentives: an international study of top managers

Pepper, Alexander; Gore, Julie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

The world-wide inflation in executive compensation in recent years has been accompanied by an increase in the prevalence of long-term incentives. This article demonstrates how the subjectively perceived value of long-term incentives is affected by risk aversion, uncertainty aversion, and time...

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Pension policy in EU25 and its possible impact on elderly poverty

Zaidi, Asghar; Grech, Aaron George; Fuchs, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper reviews changes in pension policies in EU countries between 1995 and 2005 and describes how they might affect risk of poverty for future pensioner populations. The pension landscape in Europe has changed considerably in the past decade and the paper highlights commonalities as well as...

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Evaluating the performance of the search and matching model

Yashiv, Eran - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

most of the key variables, as well as the negative co-variation of unemployment and vacancies. It offers a workable …

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How does product market competition shape incentive contracts?

Cuñat, Vicente; Guadalupe, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper studies the effect of product market competition on the explicit compensation packages that firms offer to their CEOs, executives and workers. We use a large sample of both traded and non-traded UK firms and exploit a quasi-natural experiment associated to an increase in competition....

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Labor market institutions, wages and investment

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...

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