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Intergenerational Persistence in Income and Social Class: The Impact of Within-Group Inequality

Blanden, Jo; Gregg, Paul; Macmillan, Lindsey - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

Family income is found to be more closely related to sons' earnings for a cohort born in 1970 compared to one born in 1958. This result is in stark contrast to the finding on the basis of social class; intergenerational mobility for this outcome is found to be unchanged. Our aim here is to...

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Rise of the Machines: The Effects of Labor-Saving Innovations on Jobs and Wages

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate, and what types of worker will be replaced as a result? We present a model that distinguishes between a task's engineering complexity and its training requirements. When two...

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The Impact of Immigration on the Local Labor Market Outcomes of Blue Collar Workers: Panel Data Evidence

Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

Using a large administrative French panel data set for 1976-2007, we examine how low- educated immigration affects the wages, employment, occupations and locations of blue-collar native workers. The natives in the sample are initially in occupations heterogeneous in the presence of immigrants,...

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Reservation Wages and the Wage Flexibility Puzzle

Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

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The Evolution of the Modern Worker: Attitudes to Work

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

recession on the labour market as a whole. …

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The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment

Autor, David H.; Manning, Alan; Smith, Christopher L. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality, attending to two issues that appear to bias earlier work: violation of the assumed independence of state wage levels and state wage dispersion, and errors-in-variables that inflate impact estimates via an...

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Where the Streets Have a Name: Income Comparisons in the US

Brodeur, Abel; Flèche, Sarah - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

This paper analyses how neighbors' income affect agents' well-being using unprecedented data from the BRFSS and the City of Somerville. We conduct a multi-scale approach at the county, ZIP code and street-levels and find that the association between well-being and neighbors' income follows an...

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The Careers of Immigrants

Matos, Ana Damas de - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

, I suggest an economic assimilation mechanism which highlights imperfect information about immigrant productivity. I … uncertainty over immigrants' productivity prevents them from getting access to the best jobs. Over time, productivity is revealed … mobility patterns and on the productivity distribution of firms they are matched with. The predictions of the model are in line …

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The CEO Labour Market in China's Public Listed Companies

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Zhou, Minghai - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

contributed to growth in executive compensation. A picture emerges of an executive labour market in which firms are linking pay to …

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Selection into Trade and Wage Inequality

Sampson, Thomas - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

premium. Under trade, fixed export costs cause the selection of high productivity, high skill firms into exporting and an …

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