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Sheer Class? The Extent and Sources of Variation inthe UK Graduate Earnings Premium

Naylor, Robin A.; Smith, Jeremy; McKnight, Abigail - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

In this paper, we use the individual-level USR data for the wholepopulation of 1993 leavers from the ‘old’ universities of the UK toinvestigate the determinants of graduate occupational earnings. Amongother results, we find that there are significant differences in theoccupational earnings...

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Informal Employment in Countries in Transition:A conceptual framework

Bernabè, Sabine - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

In the past few years the informal sector in countries in transition hasincreasingly become the focus of research …

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A brave new geography of the Internet age? : the determinants of telecommunications growth in historical perspective

Perkins, Richard (contributor); Neumayer, Eric (contributor) - 2007

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Active financial intermediation : evidence of the role of organizational specialization and human capital

Bottazzi, Laura (contributor); Da Rin, Marco (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Leaving Home and Entering Service: The Age of Apprenticeship in Early Modern London

Wallis, Patrick; Webb, Cliff; Minns, Chris - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

Leaving home and entering service was a key transition in early modern England. This paper presents evidence on the age …

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Rodney Hilton, Marxism and the Transition From Feudalism to Capitalism

Epstein, Stephan R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

transition from feudal to capitalist modes of production, still carries considerable weight among like-minded historians.[...] …

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Reconstructing the Industrial Revolution: Analyses, Perceptions and Conceptions Of Britain’s Precocious Transition to Europe’s First Industrial Society

Riello, Giorgio; O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

The Industrial Revolution continues to be analysed by economic historians deploying the conceptual vocabularies of modern social science, particularly economics. Their approach which gives priority to the elaboration of causes and processes of evolution is far too often and superficially...

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Welfare in Transition: Trends in Poverty andWell-being in Central Asia

Falkingham, Jane - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

This paper examines the impact of the transition from a planned toa market economy on living standards and welfare in … thepopulation is now living in poverty. Real wages have fallen,joblessness has increased, school enrolment has dropped andgeneral … largenumbers of children and single parent families – the economicdislocation of transition has also given rise to new groups of …

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Do Democracies Select More Educated Leaders?

Besley, Timothy; Reynal-Querol, Marta - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This paper tests whether education levels di¤er between leadersselected in autocracies and democracies. We use a unique data seton over 1300 world leaders between 1848 and 2004 and exploit withincountry variation from transitions to and from democracy to show thatdemocracies pick more highly...

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Knowing what is good for you: Empirical analysis ofpersonal preferences and the “objective good”

Lelkes, Orsolya - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

This paper aims to test empirically if certain frequently used measures of wellbeing,which are regarded as valuable properties of human life, are actuallydesired by people. In other words, it investigates whether the “expertjudgments” in social science overlap with social consensus on what...

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