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Sonn, Jung Won (contributor) - 2005

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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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LSE Evaluation of the Trafford Hall Making Things Happen Capacity Building Programme 1999-2003

Beck, Helen; Richardson, Liz - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

The Trafford Hall Making Things Happen Programme is an innovative and practical‘capacity building’ programme of residential training, linked to follow-up small grants, forsocial housing tenants in England and Wales. It aims to support community volunteers to beinvolved in improving...

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ORGANIZATION AND INEQUALITY IN A KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

Garicano, Luis; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

We present an equilibrium theory of the organization of work in an economywhere knowledge is an essential input in … designed to use and communicate their knowledge efficiently. Relativeto autarky, organization leads to larger cross … acquire knowledge lead to opposite implicationson wage inequality and organization than reductions in communication costs.[...] …

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The Knowledge Economy at the turn of the Twentieth Century: the Emergence of Hierarchies

Garicano, Luis; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

The knowledge economy is nothing new. As Chandler’s (1977) classic study documents,improvements in communication …

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OFFSHORING IN A KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

Antràs, Pol; Garicano, Luis; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of workand the structure of wages? To study this question, we propose a theory of theassignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilledagents specialize in production and more skilled agents...

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The Returns to Knowledge Hierarchies

Garicano, Luis; Hubbard, Thomas N. - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2008

Hierarchies allow individuals to leverage their knowledge through others` time.This mechanism increases productivity … andorganization of U.S. lawyers and use an equilibrium model of knowledge hierarchiesinspired by Garicano and Rossi-Hansberg (2006) to …

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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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