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Parallel lives? Ethnic segregation in schools andneighbourhoods

Burgess, Simon M.; Wilson, Deborah; Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

compare patterns of segregation across nineethnic groups, and across Local Education Authorities in England. Looking atboth …

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An Anatomy of EconomicInequality in the UK

Hills, John; Brewer, Mike; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Lister, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

[...]The work of the National Equality Panel will underpin the response by all strategic publicauthorities to Clause One of the Equality Bill which places a new legal duty on key publicbodies to consider, in all the important decisions they make and all important actions theytake, how they can...

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Modernisation and Son Preference

Burgess, Robin; Zhuang, Juzhong - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

analysis is used to try and uncoverthe factors which may be driving the emergence of these gender gaps.Drawing on household … expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich (Jiangsu)Chinese province we are able to test for different types of gender bias … were found to correspond to gender biases in mortality and enrolmentoutcomes as revealed in census data for the same year …

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Piece rates and learning: understanding work and production in the New England textile industry a century ago.

Leunig, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

New data on individual worker’s outputs show that New England ring spinners exhibited substantial on the job learning c. 1905. Despite this, variable capital-labour ratios meant high labour turnover reduced aggregate labour productivity only fractionally. The combination of variable...

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Careers for the unskilled in the Great Eastern Railway Company, 1870-1913

Howlett, Peter - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

One of the most significant changes in the labour market in the twentieth century was the rise of the internal labour market. Its origins can be found in the nineteenth century, particularly in the large service companies such as banks and the railway companies. By studying the internal labour...

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State-Building, The Original Push For Institutional Changes In Modern China, 1840-1950

Deng, Kent G. 171897390 - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

The period of 1840 (when the Opium War broken out) till now is commonly regarded as China’s modern era, ‘modern’ in terms of China’s departure from its original growth and developmental path. In this context, the term modern has been intimately associated with something alien to the...

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Agri-Technologies and Travelling Facts: A Case Study of Extension Education in Tamil Nadu, India

Howlett, Peter; Velkar, Aashish - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

education program inTamil Nadu, south India. The paper explores the extent to whichfertigation technologies (drip irrigation … localfarmers associations. This model of an extension education had anstrong demonstration effect that encouraged the travel of …

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Heterogeneous Class Size Effects: New Evidence from a Panel of University Students

Bandiera, Oriana; Larcinese, Valentino; Rasul, Imran - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

Over the last decade, many countries have experienced dramatic increases in university enrolment, which, when not matched by compensating increases in other inputs, have resulted in larger class sizes. Using administrative records from a leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects...

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RICH STATES, POOR STATES: CONVERGENCE AND POLARISATION IN INDIA

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

education, irrigation and literacy inthe formation of the lower convergence club. Parametric analysis establishesirrigation …, education, roads, industrial power consumption and bank depositsas infrastructure components explaining cross-state variation in …

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Pensions: Challenges and Choices: What next?

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

The analysis in the Report of the Pensions Commission (UK Pensions Commission2004, henceforth referred to as the Report), is sound, the data a wonderful treasure trove, thepresentation particularly clear, and the diagnosis correct. This comment takes the Report’sanalysis as given, and sets out...

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