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The effect of public sector employment on local labour markets

Faggio, Giulia; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper considers the impact of public sector employment on local labour markets. Using English data at the Local Authority level for 2003–2007 we find that public sector employment has no identifiable effect on total private sector employment. However, public sector employment does affect...

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A picture of job insecurity facing British men

Nickell, Stephen; Jones, Tracy; Quintini, Glenda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

becoming unemployed, the costs of unemployment in terms of real wages losses and the probability that the continuously employed …

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Wage equations, wage curves and all that

Bell, Brian; Nickell, Stephen; Quintini, Glenda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper is concerned with the relationship between wages and unemployment. Using UK regions and individuals as the … unemployment and wages or wage changes? Second, can we identify the relationship completely by looking at regional wages and … regional unemployment or do regional wages depend on aggregate unemployment as well? Third, are wages influenced only by the …

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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

This paper makes use of the substantial information about the psychological and behavioural development of children by age ten in the 1970 Cohort to predict later, economic outcomes, namely qualifications, employment and earnings. It is found that this previously unobserved individual...

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Accounting for big-city growth in low-paid occupations: immigration and/or service-class consumption

Gordon, Ian; Kaplanis, Ioannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

The growth of “global cities” in the 1980s was supposed to have involved an occupational polarization, including the increase in low-paid service jobs. Although held to be untrue for European cities at the time, some such growth did emerge in London a decade later than first reported for New...

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Employment patterns in OECD countries

Nickell, Stephen; Nunziata, Luca - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by...

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The effects of decentralisation on public investment: evidence and four lessons from Bolivia and Colombia

Faguet, Jean-Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Hundreds of studies have failed to establish the effects of decentralisation on a number of important policy goals. This paper examines the cases of Bolivia and Colombia to explore decentralisation’s effects on government responsiveness and poverty-orientation. I first summarize economic data...

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Family income and educational attainment: a review of approaches and evidence for Britain

Blanden, Jo; Gregg, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

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Productivity and days of the week

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

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The causes and consequences of long-term unemployment in Europe

Machin, Stephen; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

One of the most striking features of European labour markets is the high incidence of long-term unemployment. In this paper we review the literature on its causes and consequences. Our main conclusions are that: the rise in the incidence of long-term unemployment has been ''caused'' by a...

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