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The returns to temporary migration to the United States: evidence from the Mexican urban employment survey
Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
analyses many different aspects of this phenomenon, the economic performance of migrants with respect to the Mexican labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745692
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125984
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126072
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Immigration, offshoring, and American jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Gregory - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Following Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008) we present a model in which tasks of varying complexity are matched to workers of varying skill in order to develop and test predictions regarding the effects of immigration and offshoring on US native-born workers. We find that immigrant and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126370
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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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Employment trajectories for mothers in low-skilled work: evidence from the British lone parent cohort
Stewart, Kitty - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
UK government policy encourages mothers of young children in low-income families to enter or return to work, via tax credit subsidies and support for childcare. Maternal employment is seen a central plank in the campaign against child poverty, both because it raises income immediately and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744941
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Employment trajectories and later employment outcomes for mothers in the British Household Panel Survey: an analysis by skill level
Stewart, Kitty - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Maternal employment formed a central plank in the former Labour Government’s strategy to reduce child poverty. Even where potential jobs were low-skilled and low-paid, policy was explicitly work (rather than training) first, and lone parents in particular were given direct and indirect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745816
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Right to the city and critical reflections on property rights activism in China’s urban renewal contexts
Shin, Hyun Bang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
examine how nail houses are received among local residents and migrants, and discusses the extent to which migrants can fit … for the need to form a place-based alliance that enables urbanites including migrants to come together to launch an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746263