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LoWER   -programme   -papers   -topics   -REGISTER about RLAB contact us   -useful contacts   -email sign up maps & location   -directions   -(disabled) access research themes the centres news events publications staff   European Low-wage Employment Research network. LoWER Annual Conference 2004 This conference took place on Friday 23 and Saturday 24 April 2004 Centre for Economic Performance & Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. LoWER, the CEP and CASE jointly organised the concluding scientific conference of the second phase of the LoWER network (2000-2004). The overarching theme of this phase was the question: "Can professionalising low-skilled consumer-services jobs improve European employment growth?" Keynote speakers Jane Waldfogel (Columbia University and CASE) on: "Combining Work and Family: How do Low-Income Families Fare?" Joshua Angrist (MIT Department of Economics) on: "Using Quantile Regression to Characterize Changing-Wage Inequality" The final programme (in Adobe PDF) Download papers that were presented Conference organisers: Stephen Machin, Abigail McKnight and Jonathan Wadsworth at the LSE and Wiemer Salverda (network co-ordinator, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies). For information regarding registration, please contact Jo Cantlay: j.m.cantlay@lse.ac.uk. Continue to next page: topics.

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