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Where the minimum wage bites hard : the introduction of the UK national minimum wage to a low wage sector
Machin, Stephen; Manning, Alan; Rahman, Lupin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
Between 1993 and April 1999 there was no minimum wage in the United Kingdom (except in agriculture). In this paper we study the effects of the introduction of a National Minimum Wage (NMW) in April 1999 on one heavily affected sector, the residential care homes industry. This sector contains a...
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The unequal effects of liberalization: evidence from dismantling the License Raj in India
Aghion, Philippe; Burgess, Robin; Redding, Stephen; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
This paper investigates whether the effects, on registered manufacturing out-put, employment, entry and investment, of dismantling the ‘license raj’ - a system of central controls regulating entry and production activity in this sector - vary across Indian states with different labor market...
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Services provision and temporary mobility: freedoms and regulation in the EU
Bertola, Guiseppe; Mola, Lorenza - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
International posting of workers and mobility of self-employed service suppliers lie between outright migration and trade in goods: their regulation, for both distributional and marketcorrecting purposes, is not as difficult to harmonize as that of labour markets, but personal mobility is more...
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The social protection of rural workers in the construction industry in urban China
Li, Bingqin; Peng, Huamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
The construction industry is important for Chinese rural to urban migrants. Over 90% of urban construction workers are rural migrants, and over a third of all rural migrants work in construction. The construction industry is not only particularly important, but is also different from other...
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Imperfect competition in the labour market
Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
It is increasingly recognized that labour markets are pervasively imperfectly competitive, that there are rents to the employment relationship for both worker and employer. This chapter considers why it is sensible to think of labour markets as imperfectly competitive, reviews estimates on the...
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Top team demographics, innovation and business performance: findings from English firms and cities 2008-9
Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
National Business Survey. I construct measures of diversity and sameness across ethnicity and gender 'bases', alongside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125961
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Sheer class? The extent and sources of variation in the UK graduate earnings premium
Naylor, Robin; Smith, Jeremy; McKnight, Abigail - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
In this paper, we use the individual-level USR data for the whole population of 1993 leavers from the ¿old¿ universities of the UK to investigate the determinants of graduate occupational earnings. Among other results, we find that there are significant differences in the occupational earnings...
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Is child work necessary?
Bhalotra, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
This paper investigates why children work by studying the wage elasticity of child labour supply. Incorporating subsistence constraints in to a model of labour supply, we show that a negative wage elasticity favours the hypothesis that poverty compels work whereas a positive wage elasticity...
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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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Can family-support policies help explain differences in working hours across countries?
Sila, Urban - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
explaining this variation. I analyse two types of policies: childcare subsidies and family cash benefits. I distinguish between … people with children and people without children. Childcare subsidies should increase working hours in the economy and these … decrease the amount of time people spend in childcare at home. I test this using household data for a set of European countries …
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