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CEP-authored book or report chapters.

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Chapter
Wage Arrears and Inequality in the Distribution of Pay: Lessons from Russia
in Aspects of Worker Well-Being

Many developing and transition countries, and even some in the industrialized West, experience periods in which a substantial proportion of the workforce suffer wage arrears. We examine the implications for estimates of ...Read more...

Hartmut Lehmann and Jonathan Wadsworth

21 May 2007

Chapter
Mobility and Joblessness
in Seeking A Premier Economy: The Economic Effects Of British Economic Reforms, 1980-2000

The perceived impact of location on economic opportunity has been a constant refrain in discussions of the economic performance of the United Kingdom for as long as anyone can remember and the source of much feeling th...Read more...

Paul Gregg, Stephen Machin and Alan Manning

1 June 2004

Chapter
Changes in intergenerational mobility in Britain
in Generational Income Mobility in North America and Europe

What economic regimes offer children born into poor families the best hope of moving into higher income groups? This study analyzes and contrasts the experience of the more free market based North American and British ec...Read more...

Jo Blanden, Alissa Goodman, Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin

1 December 2004

Chapter
Education expansion and intergenerational mobility in Britain
in Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem

Leading researchers from the United States and Europe report on new findings on the effect of education on equal opportunity, using economic and statistical techniques to assess the results of education policy reform in ...Read more...

Stephen Machin

1 May 2007