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Assimilation of Migrants into the British Labour Market

Dickens, Richard; McKnight, Abigail - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

This paper discusses the extent to which migrants to Britain have been assimilated into the workforce. Migration into Britain has increased over the last 25 years, with a big increase in inflows in recent years. The paper shows that when a migrant worker first arrives they experience a pay gap...

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Labour Market Disadvantage amongst Disabled People:A Longitudinal Perspective

Rigg, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

Britain. But very little is knownabout the progression of disabled people in employment. This study uses datafrom the Labour … Force Survey (LFS) to examine the labour market progressionof disabled people in Britain along several dimensions: earnings … growth, lowpaytransition probabilities, changes in labour market participation, the rate oftraining and the rate of upward …

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Informal Employment in Countries in Transition:A conceptual framework

Bernabè, Sabine - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

In the past few years the informal sector in countries in transition hasincreasingly become the focus of research, public policy and the media.The term ‘informal sector’ has been used to describe an extremely widespectrum of activities, which do not necessarily have much in common,such as...

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Labour's wrongs and labour's remedy : or, the age of might and the age of right

Bray, John Francis - 1931 - [Repr. d. Ausg.] Leeds 1839

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Manpower policy and employment trends

Roberts, Benjamin C. (contributor); … - 1966

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Japanese labour and management in transition : diversity, flexibility and participation

Sako, Mari (ed.); Sato, Hiroki (contributor) - 1997 - 1. publ.

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The economics of teacher supply

Zabalza, Antoni; Turnbull, Philip; Williams, Gareth - 1979

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Rules and Reality: Quantifying the Practice of Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe

Minns, Chris; Wallis, Patrick - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This paper uses recently digitised samples of apprentices and masters in London and Bristol to quantify the practice of apprenticeship in the late 17th century. Apprenticeship appears much more fluid than is traditionally understood. Many apprentices did not complete their terms of indenture;...

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Labour Market Adjustment to Economic Downturns in the Catalan TextileIndustry, 1880-1910. Did Employers Breach Implicit Contracts?

Domenech, Jordi - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

remained fixed over the cycle. When facing a negative demand shock, firms adjusted by reducing output, hours of work, labour … labour market for female workers, limiting the pressure of unemployed workers on prevailing wages.[...] …

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Workers and ‘Subalterns’: A comparative study of labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Lewis, Colin M. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

labour. While the contributions may not be located within ‘subalternism’, to differing degrees they reflect responses in the …

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