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Development patterns and institutional structures : China and India

Gupta, S. P. (ed.); Gupta, Shyama Prasad (contributor); … - 1995 - 1. publ.

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Structural Change and the Growth Contribution of Services: How Motion Pictures Industrialized US Spectator Entertainment

Bakker, Gerben - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

This paper examines the effect of a new technology on a labour-intensive service. Comparing primal and dual TFP-growth with final-year social savings, we find that, between 1900 and 1938, motion pictures increased entertainment output (measured in spectator-hours) by at least nine percent...

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Origins of Catch-up Failure: Comparative Productivity Growth in the Hapsburg Empire, 1870-1910

Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

This paper examines patterns of structural change and labour productivity growth in the late nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire. Using shift-share analysis and a set of basic measures to account for the contribution of physical and human capital growth, it seeks to address three questions:...

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The comparative method in social anthropology

Evans-Pritchard, Edward E. - 1963

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Essays on social organization and values

Firth, Raymond - 1964

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Income Transfers to the Elderly in East Asia:Testing Asian Values

Kwon, Huck-ju - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to theliving standards of the elderly in East Asia … theelderly in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. It argues that public policy inthe region assumes the family as primarily …

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The Divorced and Who Divorces?

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

from the Family Resources Survey is used to identifythe characteristics of the divorced population. In the second part … adulthood. A number of insights emergedfrom our longitudinal analyses as well as from the cross-sectional analysisof the Family …

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Maternity Leave Policies and Women's Employmentafter Childbirth: Evidence from the United States,Britain, and Japan

Waldfogel, Jane; Higuchi, Yoshio; Abe, Masahiro - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

This paper uses microdata from the United States, Britain, and Japan toexamine the effects of family leave coverage on … women's employment afterchildbirth. Our three sample countries provide a range of family leavepolicy regimes. The United … States had no national family leave legislationprior to the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act in 1993, but …

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East Enders: Family and community in East London

Mumford, Katharine; Power, Anne T. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

East Enders tells the story of a hundred families who live in two of the lowestincome areas in the East End of London, Hackney and Newham. The East Endhas the biggest concentration of poverty in the capital. It lies at the heart of theThames Gateway, London’s major growth area.Nearly half the...

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Understanding Social Exclusion

Hills, John; Le Grand, Julian; Piachaud, David - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

, intergenerational and family links indisadvantage, the labour market, deprived neighbourhoods, and the impact ofwelfare policy … - individual, family, community, national and global.[...] …

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