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Employment after motherhood: a European comparison
Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
lowest rates of staying on in the labour market after childbearing. Higher education is a key explanatory factor of the …), education and part-time employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744883
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Neighbourhood effects in small neighbourhoods
Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
This paper uses data on a sample of Australian teenagers to test for neighbourhood effects on school dropout rates. The data allows us to test for neighbourhood effects at two different spatial scales. We find that educational composition of the larger neighbourhood can influence the dropout...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745534
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Employment penalty after motherhood in Spain
Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
pre-birth job features and education. We find that around 40 percent of Spanish women who were at work one year before … human capital (experience and higher level of education) increases the probability of staying at work. There is evidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745799
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The impact of the labour market on the timing of marriage and births in Spain
Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
The main purpose of this paper is to show how the labour market affects Spanish individual fertility decisions. Spain is an interesting case due to its huge fertility decline. Our hypothesis is that precarious Spanish labour markets (i.e. high unemployment rates and fixedterm contracts) postpone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745947
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The dynamics of school attainment of England's ethnic minorities
Wilson, Deborah; Burgess, Simon; Briggs, Adam - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
We exploit a universe dataset of state school students in England with linked test score records to document the evolution of attainment through school for different ethnic groups. The analysis yields a number of striking findings. First, we show that, controlling for personal characteristics,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126286
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Education and health knowledge: evidence from UK compulsory schooling reforms
Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … 15) and 1972 (from 15 to 16) to provide exogenous variation in education. These reforms predominantly induced adolescents … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …
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Robots at work
Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots’ potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011198536
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The contribution of schooling in development accounting: results from a nonparametric upper bound
Caselli, Francesco; Ciccone, Antonio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to the development accounting literature by describing a nonparametric upper bound on the increase in output that can be generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach...
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What if Congress doubled R&D spending on the physical sciences?
Van Reenen, John; Freeman, Richard B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Many business, academic, and scientific groups have recommended that the Congress substantially increase R&D spending in the near future. President Bush’s American Competitiveness Initiative calls for a doubling of spending over the next decade in selected agencies that deal with the physical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745852
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Mapping prices into productivity in multisector growth models
Ngai, L. Rachel; Samaniego, Roberto M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
Two issues related to mapping a multi-sector model into a reduced-form value-added model are often neglected: the composition of intermediate goods, and the distinction between value added productivity and gross output productivity. We demonstrate their quantitative significance for the case of...
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