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John Schmitt and Jonathan Wadsworth look at 10 years' data on GCSE and A level results and conclude that access to a PC at home has a significant impact on outcomes....Read more...
John Schmitt and Jonathan Wadsworth
June 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 d...Read more...
March 2004
This paper summarizes inequalities in PC ownership using data from the US Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) and the British General Household Survey (GHS) for the period 1984-98. Between 1988 and 1994, British households ...Read more...
April 2002
Throughout the 1980s, the British unemployment compensation system was subject to a series of administrative changes. At the same time, the proportion of male unemployed workers receiving benefit fell by some twenty perc...Read more...
May 1993
The paper uses data from the annual British General household Survey to examine changes in the structure of weekly earnings for full-time male employees aged 16 to 64 during the period 1974-1988. The principal findings a...Read more...
John Schmitt
March 1993
This paper endogenises the job offer arrival rate in a standard search model in order to test the hypothesis that unemployment-related benefits may affect the job search behaviour of unemployed workers independently of a...Read more...
June 1991