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Employment, family union, and childbearing decisions in Great Britain
Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126156
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Can family-support policies help explain differences in working hours across countries?
Sila, Urban - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
It has been suggested in the literature that taxes and subsidies play an important role in explaining the differences in working hours across countries. In this paper I test whether public programmes for family support play a role in explaining this variation. I analyse two types of policies:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884607
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Is child work necessary?
Bhalotra, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
large household survey for rural Pakistan, we estimate structural labour supply models for boys and girls in wage work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744915
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Child labor and the labor supply of other household members: evidence from 1920 America
Manacorda, Marco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
This paper analyses the effect of child labor on household labor supply using 1920 US Census micro data. The aim of the analysis is to understand who in the household benefits from child labor. In order to identify a source of exogenous variation in child labor I use State-specific child labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071157
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Family-friendly working: what a performance! An analysis of the relationship between the availability of family-friendly policies and establishment performance
Gray, Helen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper uses the Management and Employee Questionnaires from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS98) to consider whether the performance of workplaces which offer a range of family-friendly policies are superior to that of workplaces without such practices. It is found that in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745244
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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and early child outcomes
Tominey, Emma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
We estimate the harm from smoking during pregnancy upon child birth outcomes, using a rich dataset on a cohort of … mothers and their births. We exploit a fixed effects approach to disentangle the correlation between smoking and birth weight … from smoking is explained by unobservable traits of the mother. Smoking tends to reduce birth weight by 1.7%, but has no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745418
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Is there an impact of household computer ownership on children's educational attainment in Britain?
Schmitt, John; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
If personal computers (PCs) are used to enhance learning and information gathering across a variety of subjects, then a home computer might reasonably be considered an input in an educational production function. Using data on British youths from the British Household Panel Survey between 1991...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746246
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Employment trajectories for mothers in low-skilled work: evidence from the British lone parent cohort
Stewart, Kitty - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
UK government policy encourages mothers of young children in low-income families to enter or return to work, via tax credit subsidies and support for childcare. Maternal employment is seen a central plank in the campaign against child poverty, both because it raises income immediately and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744941
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Employment trajectories and later employment outcomes for mothers in the British Household Panel Survey: an analysis by skill level
Stewart, Kitty - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
to explore this issue further. It examines the employment trajectories of 929 women for the ten years after the birth of … work trajectories. One in three mothers moves in and out of work over the decade after the birth of their youngest child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745816
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Right to the city and critical reflections on property rights activism in China’s urban renewal contexts
Shin, Hyun Bang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
The rapid transformation of urban socio-spatial landscape in China has resulted in an increasing degree of frustration and discontent among local residents who face threats of demolition and eviction. This has given rise to sporadic protests by local residents who are often known as ‘nail...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746263