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SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Whether to Hire Local Contract Teachers? Trade-off Between Skills and Preferences in India

Whether to hire teachers locally on a contract basis, or via competitive examinations as government officials, is a major policy question in developing countries. We use a Discrete Choice Experiment to assess the job pre...Read more...

Sonja Fagernas and Panu Pelkonen

July 2011

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Wage Disparities in Britain: People or Place?

This paper investigates wage disparities across sub-national labour markets in Britain using a newly available microdata set. The findings show that wage disparity across areas is very persistent over time. While area ef...Read more...

Stephen Gibbons, Henry G. Overman and Panu Pelkonen

October 2010

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper
Length of Compulsory Education and Voter Turnout - Evidence from a Staged Reform

In this study, a long-term impact of additional schooling at the lower end of the educational distribution is measured on voter turnout. Schooling is instrumented with a staged Norwegian school reform, which increased mi...Read more...

Panu Pelkonen

September 2009

CentrePiece article
In brief... Benefits of compulsory schooling

Panu Pelkonen and colleagues analyse the impact of a Norwegian reform that raised the length of compulsory schooling....Read more...

Panu Pelkonen

June 2009

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper
Education and Mobility

We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based on a quasi-exogenous staged Norwegian school reform, and register data on the whole population. Based...Read more...

Stephen Machin, Panu Pelkonen and Kjell Salvanes

December 2008

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper
The Impact of Computer Use, Computer Skills and Computer Use Intensity: Evidence from WERS 2004.

Computers and ICT have changed the way we live and work. The latest WERS 2004 provides a snapshot of how using ICT at the workplace has changed our working lives. Various studies have suggested that the use of a computer...Read more...

Peter Dolton and Panu Pelkonen

August 2007