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The economic situation of first- and second-generation immigrants in France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Algan, Yann; Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

countries in terms of education, earnings, and employment. …

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Bhalotra, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

concentrated on the income elasticity, but this tells us nothing other than that leisure (or education) is a normal good. Using a …

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Public education for the minority, private education for the majority

Levy, Gilat - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Public provision of private goods such as education is usually viewed as a form of redistribution in kind. However … public provision of education. The political process that I analyse involves endogenous parties. Parties have a unique role … of different groups in society to compromise with one another. I find that public provision of education arises as an …

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Performance pay for teachers: linking individual and organisational level targets

Belfield, Richard; Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

and head teachers with Department for Education and Skills school performance data to consider the operation and impact of …

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Neighbourhood effects in small neighbourhoods

Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper uses data on a sample of Australian teenagers to test for neighbourhood effects on school dropout rates. The data allows us to test for neighbourhood effects at two different spatial scales. We find that educational composition of the larger neighbourhood can influence the dropout...

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Employment penalty after motherhood in Spain

Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

pre-birth job features and education. We find that around 40 percent of Spanish women who were at work one year before … human capital (experience and higher level of education) increases the probability of staying at work. There is evidence of …

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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 …

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The impact of the labour market on the timing of marriage and births in Spain

Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

The main purpose of this paper is to show how the labour market affects Spanish individual fertility decisions. Spain is an interesting case due to its huge fertility decline. Our hypothesis is that precarious Spanish labour markets (i.e. high unemployment rates and fixedterm contracts) postpone...

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The changing architecture of the UK welfare state

Hills, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This article looks at the way in which the role of the state has evolved within different aspects of welfare activity (broadly defined) in the United Kingdom since 1979 and forward to the possible impacts of the plans of the Coalition government that took office in 2010 for changing that role...

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School participation in rural India

Dreze, Jean; Gandhi Kingdon, Geeta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

, responds to a wide range of variables, including parental education and motivation, social background, dependency ratios, work …

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