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Why rising tides don’t lift all boats: An explanation ofthe relationship between poverty and unemploymentin Britain

Burgess, Simon M.; Gardiner, Karen; Propper, Carol - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

This paper is motivated by the lack of any obvious relationship betweenaggregate poverty and unemployment in Great … Britain. We derive aframework based on individuals’ risks of unemployment and poverty,and how these vary over the economic … cycle. Analysing the BritishHousehold Panel Survey for 1991-96, we are able to square the microevidence — that unemployment …

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The Class of ’81: The effects of early-careerunemployment on subsequent unemploymentexperiences

Burgess, Simon M.; Propper, Carol; Rees, Hedley; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

We examine whether unemployment early in an individual’scareer influences her later employment prospects. We use six … yearsof the LFS to create pseudo-cohorts and exploit cross-cohortvariation in unemployment at school-leaving age to identify …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008733222

Poverty Street: The dynamics of neighbourhood declineand renewal

Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

neighbourhoods have multiple problems - unemployment three times the nationalaverage; Income Support claims twice as high; health and …

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Constraint and opportunity: Identifying voluntary nonemployment

Burchardt, Tania; Le Grand, Julian - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

empirically.The proportion of non-employment (including education, early-retirement andcaring, as well as unemployment) classified …

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Sprouting Seeds– Outcomes from a community-basedemployment programme

Evans, Helen C. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

As unemployment falls it is often the most disadvantaged unemployed whoget left behind. To identify what works to …

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Who are the divorced, and who divorces?

Kiernan, Kathleen; Mueller, Ganka - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

Using data from cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys, Kathleen Kiernanand Ganka Mueller have examined two questions: What does the currentlydivorced population look like; and what sort of people are likely to divorce(including breakdown of cohabitation)?The currently divorced are more likely...

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Case Study 1: Sheffield’s Construction JOBMatch Programme

Winkler, Astrid - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

•The British economy has been performing well for the last decade, but there is an annual productivity gap of £30 billion between the English average and that of the industrial North (ONS, cited in Northern Way, 2007).•A recent government review has stated that the UK’s skills base...

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Welfare Reform: Learning From American Mistakes?

Wilson, William J.; Mulgan, Geoff; Hills, John; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

This report summarises presentations and discussion at a seminar, organised by LSE Housingand CASE, which took place at the London School of Economics on 7th July 1998. The eventwas chaired by Professor Howard Glennerster (LSE and Chairman of STICERD), and thespeakers were Professor William...

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UNEMPLOYMENT AND LIQUIDITY CONSTRAINTS

Hajivassiliou, Vassilis; Ioannides, Yannis M. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

We present a dynamic framework for the interaction between borrowing (liquidity) constraints and deviationsof actual hours from desired hours, both measured by discrete-valued indicators, and estimate it as a systemof dynamic binary and ordered probit models with panel data from the Panel Study...

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Identifying Vulnerable Groups in the Kyrgyz LabourMarket: Some Implications for the National PovertyReduction Strategy

Bernabè, Sabine; Kolev, Alexandre - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

This paper investigates the overlap between work and labour market status andidentifies those groups at risks of poverty and social exclusion in the labourmarket. A particular attention is devoted to the working poor and precariousworkers. This analysis is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty...

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