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Panic on the streets of London: police, crime and the july 2005 terror attacks

Draca, Mirko; Machin, Stephen; Witt, Robert - 2008

terror attacks that hit central London in July 2005. The attacks resulted in a large redeployment of police officers to … central London boroughs as compared to outer London - in fact, police deployment in central London increased by over 30 … London. Study of the timing of the crime reductions and their magnitude, the types of crime which were more likely to be …

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How does the unemployment insurance system shape the time profile of jobless duration?

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2004

This paper examines the effects of unemployment insurance on escape rates from unemployment using data from the 1998 Displaced Worker Survey. Transitions from unemployment to employment are modeled using a flexible representation of the baseline hazard function and allowing for discrete changes...

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The Literacy Hour

Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra - 2004

In this paper, we evaluate the effect of the literacy hour in English primary schools on pupil attainment. The National Literacy Project (NLP) was undertaken in about 400 English primary schools in 1997 and 1998. We compare the reading and overall English attainment of children in NLP schools as...

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The Public Sector Pay Gap in France, Great Britain and Italy

Lucifora, Claudio; Meurs, Dominique - 2004

We investigate public-private pay determination using French, British and Italian microdata. While traditional methods focus on parametric methods to estimate the public sector pay gap, in this paper, we use both non-parametric (kernel) and quantile regression methods to analyse the distribution...

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Agglomeration Effects on Employer-Provided Training : Evidence from the UK

Brunello, Giorgio; Gambarotto, Francesca - 2004

Recent empirical evidence suggests that the density of local economic activity – measured as the number of employees per squared kilometer – positively affects local average productivity. In this paper we use British data from the European Community Household Panel to ask whether local...

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And in the Evening She's a Singer with the Band : Second Jobs, Plight or Pleasure?

Böheim, René; Taylor, Mark P. - 2004

We describe the dynamics of second job holding in Britain during the 1990s using panel data from the British Household Panel Survey. Our results show that second job holding is surprisingly persistent over time – about 10% of workers have a second job at any point in time while two thirds of...

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Job Tenure in Britain : Employee Characteristics Versus Workplace Effects

Mumford, Karen; Smith, Peter N. - 2004

We consider differences in current job tenure of individuals using linked employee and workplace data. This enables us to distinguish between variation in tenure associated with the characteristics of individual employees and those of the workplace in which they work. The various individual...

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Wage Mobility : Do Institutions Make a Difference? : A Replication Study Comparing Portugal and the UK

Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2004

This study compares wage mobility in Portugal and the UK, replicating the work by Dickens (2000) and progressing to discuss the impact of differences in the institutional framework, which is more regulated and centralized in Portugal, with minimum wages, employment protection, and collective...

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Motivation, Expectations and the Gender Pay Gap for UK Graduates

Chevalier, Arnaud - 2004

Focussing on recent UK graduates, a wage gap of 12% is found. The unexplained component of the gap is small and a large fraction of the gap can be explained by subject choice, job characteristics, motivation and expectation variables. Motivation and expectations account for 44% of the explained...

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The Take-Up of Social Benefits

Currie, Janet - 2004

This paper offers a review of recent literature regarding the take up of social programs in the U.S. and U.K. A few general conclusions are drawn: First, take up is enhanced by automatic or default enrollment and lowered by administrative barriers, although removing individual barriers does not...

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