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Are Public Sector CEOs Different?Leadership Wages and Performance in Schools

Besley, Timothy; Machin, Stephen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

This paper uses a unique data set to investigate the link betweenthe pay and performance of school principals. It is frequently arguedthat public sector CEOs are paid like bureaucrats with little rewardfor good performance. However, this ignores the possibility of implicitlabor market...

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Accountability and incentives: The impacts of dierent regimes on hospitalwaiting times in England and Wales

Besley, Timothy; Bevan, Gwyn; Burchardi, Konrad - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

Improving accountability in public services has been a central ob-jective of many public sector reforms in recent years. Chief amongthese have been efforts to generate observable performance measuresas a basis for monitoring performance. This paper examines a nat-ural experiment in regimes...

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US Poverty Studies and Poverty Measurement:The past twenty-five years

Glennerster, Howard - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

years. It has three parts. The firstconcentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the US povertyline remained …

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Measuring Income Risk

Burgess, Simon M.; Gardiner, Karen; Jenkins, Stephen P.; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures ofincome risk and draw attention to the importance of demographic factors as asource of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution tototal income risk of demographic and labour market factors....

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Regional Income Dispersion and Market Potential in the Late Nineteenth Century Hapsburg Empire

Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Western Europe than suggested in the historiography. The measurement of regional market potential proves strongly sensitive to …

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Is Social Capital Persistent? Comparative Measurement in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Rota, Marta Felis - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Recently, there has been a growing interest in social capital and in the difficulties related to its measurement. In …

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Was Dick Whittington Taller Than Those He Left Behind? Anthropometric Measures, Migration and the Quality of Life in Early Nineteenth Century London

Humphries, Jane; Leunig, Tim - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Using a new source of evidence we explore the geographical mobility of mid-nineteenth century seamen. Among seamen born outside London, the tall, the literate and those who could remember the exact day, month and year when they were born - characteristics that we suggest mark them out as men...

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“On a Mission” with Mutable Mobiles

Morgan, Mary S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

: its recipesfor development, its possibilities of measurement, and fromdifferences in political economy. These dimensions …

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Accurate Measurement and Design Standards: Consistency of Design and the Travel of ‘Facts’ Between Heterogeneous Groups

Velkar, Aashish - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Design standards are carriers and creators of facts, enabling facts about product value to travel between groups, and assisting in the creation of product value by establishing a reference or comparison against which product attributes are compared. However, when design standards are not...

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Developing a capability list: Final Recommendationsof the Equalities Review Steering Group onMeasurement

Vizard, Polly; Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Equalities Review SteeringGroup on Measurement (CASEpaper 120) were prepared as backgroundpapers to assist in the development of … the measurement framework for theEqualities Review. The companion paper discusses the key challengesinvolved in … translating capability theory into a practical measurement tool inthe context of measuring inequality in Britain in the 21st …

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