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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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United Kingdom Education 1997-2001

Glennerster, Howard - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

claimed that hisGovernment would make education a priority. The first part of thepaper reviews the scale of education spending … in relation to theeconomy at large and within the education budget. The second part ofthe paper looks at the productivity … education, theintroduction of income related loans to cover maintenance and up frontfees. The paper concludes some serious …

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Labour Market Adjustment to Economic Downturns in the Catalan TextileIndustry, 1880-1910. Did Employers Breach Implicit Contracts?

Domenech, Jordi - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

This paper studies the way workers and firms behaved in a highly cyclical sector such as the cotton textile industry, which encompassed 1/5 of the Catalan industrial workforce in the early 20th century. Using firm level evidence from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the paper shows that,...

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Workers and ‘Subalterns’: A comparative study of labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Lewis, Colin M. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

[...]In part, this collection of papers derives from the impact of Subaltern Studies on approaches to the history of labour. While the contributions may not be located within ‘subalternism’, to differing degrees they reflect responses in the literature to that paradigm. At the very least,...

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Regional Market Integration in Italy During the Unification (1832-1882)

Missiaia, Anna - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

integration even after the Unification. This was due to the low complementarity between its regions. However, in recent work …, Federico (2007) finds evidence of market integration starting even before 1861. The purpose of the present study is to examine … market integration in 19th century Italy within its regional context. The question is whether the Italian market integration …

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Market Integration in the North and Baltic Seas, 1500-1800

Jacks, David S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

transformation of the productive powers of an economy hasremained a very powerful concept in both economics and economic history. At … growth process has fallen under therubric of market integration, the conversion of discrete and autonomous markets intoan … interdependent and unified whole. This concept of market integration is particularlyrelevant to the early modern era in Europe, in …

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Social Indicators and the Study of Inequality

Meyers, Marcia K.; Garfinkel, Irwin - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

[...]The New York City Social Indicators Survey (SIS)project represents one effort to track the consequences ofpolicy reform and devolution for inequality and well-beingin the largest and most diverse city in the United States.The project uses a telephone survey to collect data from arepeated...

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Measuring the Value of Better Schools

Black, Sandra E. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1998

[...]In this paper, I examine two methods of measuringthe value of better schools. One involves following individualsover time to determine how the quality of theirschooling affects outcomes later in their lives; the otherinvolves calculating parental valuation of better schoolstoday. I review...

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The Two-Legged Stool: The Neglected Role of Educational Standards in Improving America’s Public Schools

Betts, Julian R. - University of California <Berkeley, Calif.> / San Diego …; … - 1998

[...]The central point is simple: far and away themost important determinant of how quickly studentslearn is the effort of students themselves. It follows thatan increase in schools’ expectations of students couldhave important effects on the quality of public schooling.By establishing a...

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Rule-based monetary policy under central bank learning

Aoki, Kosuke; Nikolov, Kalin - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

The paper evaluates the performance of three popular monetary policy rules when the central bank is learning aboutthe parameter values of a simple New Keynesian model. The three policies are: (1) the optimal non-inertial rule; (2)the optimal history-dependent rule; (3) the optimal price-level...

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