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Wage differentials in Japan: 1958-85
Morishima, Michio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1989
The market is a place where people behave quite relentlessly. If one person is selling a particular commodity at a higher price than others, no one will buy that commodity from him, however virtuous or merciful he is known to be. Of course, the actual world does not always work exactly in this...
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The relative economic importance of academic, psychological and behavioural attributes developed on childhood
Feinstein, Leon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
returns to education are not significantly reduced by this omission bias but there is evidence of substantial returns to the … children from low SES groups. The implications of these results for education are developed. Parental attitudes are much more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745937
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The state of apprenticeship in 2010: international comparisons - Australia, Austria, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland: a report for the Apprenticeship Ambassa...
Steedman, Hilary - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
Forward by Sir Roy Gardner (Chairman, Compass Group plc; Chairman, Apprenticeship Ambassadors Network) August 2010: I am pleased to commend this report, commissioned by the Apprenticeship Ambassadors Network, of which I am Chairman. The Network is a group of senior business leaders committed to...
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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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Understanding labour markets
Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
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Life after work: privacy and dismissal
Mantouvalou, Virginia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
This article addresses the issue of termination of employment because of the conduct of the employee in her leisure time, in the light of the human right to private life. It explores the impact on the retention of employment of activities taking place outside the workplace and outside working...
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British unions: dissolution or resurgence revisited
Metcalf, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
Union membership rose by 100,000 in 1999 ending two decades of sustained membership losses û the longest, deepest decline in British labour history yielding a cumulative fall of over 5 million members. This paper analyses that haemorrhage in membership and asks whether or not the recent...
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Putting training in perspective: a longitudinal case study approach
Dougherty, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1996
Detailed education, employment and training histories have been constructed for a cohort of 440 male respondents from …-level training for those not college-bound, as advocated by those promoting vocational education in high schools or as practised in … arises and to improving access to college-level vocational education for those who can benefit from it. …
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The third sector in Europe: five theses
Anheier, Helmut K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
In recent years, the third or voluntary sector has become more important for ‘Europe’, as indicated by the 1997 Communication of the European Commission and various Declarations attached to the EU Treaties. These official statements not only suggest greater political interest in the third...
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A British industrial success: productivity in the Lancashire and New England cotton spinning industries a century ago
Leunig, Tim - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
This paper uses new product-specific, micro-level US data to show that New England had lower levels of productivity in cotton spinning than Lancashire, c. 1900, contradicting results derived by Broadberry from the Censuses of Production. The discrepancy stems from the Censuses’ poor methods of...
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