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To join or not to join? Factors influencing employee share plan membership in a multinational corporation

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Many firms encourage employees to own company stock through share plans that subsidizethe price at favorable rates, but even so many employees do not buy shares. Using a newsurvey of employees in a multinational with a share ownership plan, we find considerablevariation in joining among...

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Optimal contracting and the organization of knowledge

Fuchs, William; Garicano, Luis; Rayo, Luis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We study contractual arrangements that support an efficient use of time in a knowledge-intensive economy in which agents endogenously specialize in either production or consulting. The resulting market for advice is plagued by informational problems, since both the difficulty of the questions...

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Product market competition returns to skill and wage inequality

Guadalupe, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper shows that increasing product market competition can have a direct impact on the employment relationship and on wage inequality. I develop a simple model in which an increase in product market competition increases returns to skill through the effect of competition on the sensitivity...

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Public opinion and the crisis: the dynamics of support for the euro

Hobolt, Sara B.; Wratil, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

increasingly driven by utilitarian considerations, whereas identity concerns have become less important. While the crisis has been …

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Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation: teenagers' use of social networking sites for intimacy, privacy and self-expression

Livingstone, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

-elaborate identity, older teenagers favour a plain aesthetic that foregrounds their links to others, thus expressing a notion of identity …

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Body image, peer effects and food disorders: evidence from a sample of European women

Costa-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

‘other people’s appearance’ influence health-related behaviour. Self-image (identity) is claimed to be biased towards …

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One nation under a groove? Identity and multiculturalism in Britain

Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

There is a lot of evidence that identity matters for behavior. There is a widespread belief that societies will … function better if they manage to establish a common sense of identity among the population. And there are also contemporary … fears that this common identity is threatened in several countries. In this paper we investigate the correlates of various …

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