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Welfare to Work and the Organisation of Opportunity:Lessons From Abroad

Dickson, Jane - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

Martin Evans has examined the organisation, targeting and implementation ofwelfare to work programmes in five countries: the UK, France, Germany,Netherlands and the USA. His study focussed on the different definitions of targetpopulations for welfare to work abroad and how their programmes were...

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CASE Annual Report 2009

Hills, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

[...]Our research on seven ‘weak marketcities’ in five European countriessupported by the Joseph RowntreeFoundation was completed and theresulting book, Phoenix Cities by AnnePower, Jörg Plöger and Astrid Winkler,will be published in March 2010.However, we were delighted that...

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Housing Outcomes: An Assessment of Long-Term Trends

Orr, James A.; Peach, Richard W. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

In the field of housing economics, there is a long traditionof evaluating housing outcomes for the entire populationand various subgroups by tracking four key variables, orconcepts: the physical adequacy of the occupied housingunit, the number of people living in the unit relative to thenumber...

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A Look at Real Housing Prices and Incomes: Some Implications for Housing Affordability and Quality

Gyourko, Joseph E.; Tracy, Joseph - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

[...]In this paper, we update this affordability debateusing data from the 1990s. We follow Gyourko and Linneman(1993) in addressing the affordability issue by asking asimple question: Is a home of a given quality from ten ortwenty years ago more or less affordable today to a householdsimilarly...

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The Economic Legacies of the ‘Thin White Line’: Indirect Rule and the Comparative Development of Sub-Saharan Africa

Richens, Peter - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

exogenously imposed. The number of colonial administrators relative to the African population – or the ‘thin white line’ – in 33 …

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A Stakeholder Empire: The Political Economy of Spanish Imperial RuleIn America

Grafe, Regina; Irigoin, Alejandra - Northwestern University <Evanston, Ill.; College of New …; …

This paper revises the traditional view of Spain as a predatorycolonial state that extracted revenue from natural resources andpopulations in the Americas while offering little in return. Using 18thcentury Spanish American treasury accounts we show that localelites not only exerted important...

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Fact or Fiction? Re-examination of Chinese Premodern Population Statistics

Deng, Kent G. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

half a century or so, basic quantities ofsome basic factors have remained disagreed. Chinese population is one of them … Chinese official censuses have beensystematically thrown away almost completely.As a result, the picture of Chinese population …’s population size despite the fact that population is commonlyregarded as one of the key economic factors in an economy. The …

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States and Markets in Latin America: The political economy of economic interventionism

Lewis, Colin M. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

The state is conceptually distinct from both economy and society, with inherent interests in expanding its scope for autonomous action, asserting control over economic and social interactions, and structuring economic and social relations. These interests derive primarily from the state’s...

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When Rabbits became Human (and Humans, Rabbits): Stability, Order, and History in the Study of Populations

Erickson, Paul; Mitman, Gregg - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

“Population” is often a significant unit of analysis, and a point of passage for facts and models moving between the … natural and social sciences, and between animals and humans. But the very existence of a population is a “fact” fraught with … challenges: What distinguishes a population from an economy, an ecosystem, a society? Are populations simply memory …

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Confronting the Stigma of Perfection: Genetic Demography, Diversity and the Quest for a Democratic Eugenics in the Post-war United States

Ramsden, Edmund - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

Eugenics has played an important role in the relations between social and biological scientists of population through … boundary work. In the immediate post-war era, demographers often denigrated the contributions of biologists to population … population, programmes they believed to threaten population science and policy with the stigma of typological thinking. The …

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