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London is one of the world's major cities, and one of its most diverse. London's cultural diversity is widely seen as a … endogeneity challenges, suggest there is a small but significant 'diversity bonus' for London firms. Diverse management teams are … particularly important for ideas generation, reaching international markets and serving London's cosmopolitan population. …
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This paper uses the 1980 famine in Karamoja, Uganda, as a natural experiment to evaluate its possible long‐lasting cognitive and health effects. Results indicate a strong negative impact on the educational attainment of adults exposed to the famine in utero or infancy. They were less likely to...
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other as they make the transition from primary to secondary schools in London. The observation is not simply a function of …
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ethnic segregation to examine the claim that London’s schools are “sleepwalking towards Johannesburg.” It does so by looking …
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The measurement of school performance for secondary schools in England has developed from simple measures of marginal performance at age 16 to more complex contextual value-added measures that account for pupil prior attainment and background. These models have been developed within the...
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language spoken at home. Our analysis focuses on children attending state schools in London. Over 300 languages are spoken by … London pupils, around 60% of London pupils are English speakers however, there are over 40 languages spoken by more than 1 …,000 pupils. Bengali, Urdu and Somali are the top three languages spoken in London, other than English. We show that English has a …
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industries located in Central London is used as the analytical tool to isolate the networking attributes of firms in general from …
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historical record of seven international financial centers – Florence, Venice, Genoa, Antwerp, Amsterdam, London and New York …
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population composition of each area, provides much greater insight into the nature and extent of segregation. Data for London in …
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