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Gibbons, Stephen; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We explore the association between urban density and pupil attainment using three cohorts of pupils in schooling in England. Although – as widely recognised – attainment in dense urban places is low on average, this is not because urban environments disadvantage pupils, but because the most...

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The hidden costs of fixed term contracts: the impact on work accidents

Guadalupe, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper assesses whether there is a systematic difference between the accident rates of fixed term and permanent contract workers that is not just the result of a compositional effect. A pure contractual effect might exist because the short duration of the temporary contract reduces the...

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Is there an impact of household computer ownership on children's educational attainment in Britain?

Schmitt, John; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

If personal computers (PCs) are used to enhance learning and information gathering across a variety of subjects, then a home computer might reasonably be considered an input in an educational production function. Using data on British youths from the British Household Panel Survey between 1991...

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Right to the city and critical reflections on property rights activism in China’s urban renewal contexts

Shin, Hyun Bang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

The rapid transformation of urban socio-spatial landscape in China has resulted in an increasing degree of frustration and discontent among local residents who face threats of demolition and eviction. This has given rise to sporadic protests by local residents who are often known as ‘nail...

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Minimum wages and on-the-job training

Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Becker''s theory of human capital predicts that minimum wages should reduce training investments for affected workers … because they prevent these workers from taking wage cuts necessary to finance training. In contrast, in noncompetitive labor … markets, minimum wages tend to increase training of affected workers because they induce firms to train their unskilled …

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The boom in postgraduate education and its impact on wage inequality

Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Growing numbers of university students in Britain and the United States are staying on after their first degrees to invest in a postgraduate qualification. Joanne Lindley and Stephen Machin document this trend and assess the impact on wage inequality - among graduates and across the labour force...

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The impact of vocational qualifications on the labour market outcomes of low-achieving school-leavers

McIntosh, Steven - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper creates a pseudo cohort of individuals who left school in the mid-1990s, using Labour Force Survey. The extent of low achievement at school amongst this group is documented, and then the impact of such low achievement on labour force status is estimated. The main focus of the paper is...

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Productivity as if space mattered: an application to factor markets across China

Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Optimal production decisions depend on local market characteristics. This paper develops a model to explain firm labor demand and firm density across regions. Firms vary in their technology to combine imperfectly substitutable worker types, and locate across regions with distinct distributions...

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Ambition, human capital acquisition and the metropolitan escalator

Gordon, Ian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This paper examines the relation between ambition, as a form of dynamic human capital, and the escalator role of high order metropolitan regions, as originally identified by Fielding (1989). It argues that occupational progression in such places particularly depends on concentrations both of...

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Wage inequality, technology and trade: 21st Century evidence

Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper describes and explains some of the principal trends in the wage and skilldistribution in recent decades. There have been sharp increases in wage inequality across theOECD, beginning with the US and UK at the end of the 1970s. A good fraction of thisinequality growth is due to...

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