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Access all areas? The impact of fees and background on student demand for postgraduate higher education in the UK
Wales, Philip - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper analyses participation in postgraduate higher education in the UK at the micro-level makes several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126604
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011206867
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The dynamics of employment growth: new evidence from 18 countries
Criscuolo, Chiara; Gal, Peter N.; Menon, Carlo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Motivated by the on-going interest of policy makers in the sources of job creation, this paper presents results from a new OECD project on the dynamics of employment (DynEmp) based on an innovative methodology using firm-level data (i.e. national business registers or similar sources). It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126705
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884716
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Over-education and the skills of UK graduates
Chevalier, Arnaud; Lindley, Joanne - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
investigates the effect of the expansion on early labour market attainment, focusing on over-education. We define over-education by … over-education wage penalties have remained stable. This suggests that the labour market accommodated most of the large … genuinely over-educated graduates principally lack non-academic skills such as management and leadership. Additionally, genuine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745327
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Entrepreneurship: can the Jack-of-all-trades attitude be acquired?
Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
Entrepreneurs are believed to be the ultimate engine of modern economic systems. Yet, the study of entrepreneurship suffers from the lack of consensus on the most crucial question: what makes an entrepreneur? A recent theory developed by Edward Lazear suggests that individuals mastering a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746173
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Neighbourhood effects in small neighbourhoods
Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
This paper uses data on a sample of Australian teenagers to test for neighbourhood effects on school dropout rates. The data allows us to test for neighbourhood effects at two different spatial scales. We find that educational composition of the larger neighbourhood can influence the dropout...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745534
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The impact of vocational qualifications on the labour market outcomes of low-achieving school-leavers
McIntosh, Steven - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
This paper creates a pseudo cohort of individuals who left school in the mid-1990s, using Labour Force Survey. The extent of low achievement at school amongst this group is documented, and then the impact of such low achievement on labour force status is estimated. The main focus of the paper is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746387
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Social housing, neighborhood quality and student performance
Weinhardt, Felix - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the short-term effect of very deprived neighborhoods, characterized by a high density of social housing, on the educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126243
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Intergenerational mobility in the United States and Great Britain: a comparative study of parent-child pathways
Blanden, Jo; Haveman, Robert; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
because of the higher returns to education and skills, the pathway through offspring education is relatively more important … pathways by which parental status is related to offspring status, including education, labor market attachment, occupation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240196