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An expenditure-based estimate of Britain's black economy
(1989)We estimate the size of Britain's black economy (defined narrowly as unreported taxable income) by using income and expenditure data drawn from the 1982 Family Expenditure Survey. Our working assumptions are that all income ...
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Book Chapter
Social Security, Life-Cycle Savings and Retirement
(Scientechnica, 1980)
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On-the-job search. Some empirical evidence from Britain
(1994)This paper considers evidence from the Labour Force Survey concerning job search by employed workers. The unconditional probability of observing on-the-job search is decomposed into the product of two constituent probabilities ...
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The Cyclical Behavior of Job Creation and Job Destruction
(North-Holland, 1993)
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The Expenditure Approach to Calculating the Under-Reporting of Income
(University Press, 1986)
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Long-run PPP under the presence of near-to-unit roots: The case of the British Pound-US dollar rate
(2009)Empirical tests typically provide evidence that the British pound-US dollar exchange rate and the relative wholesale price index contain exact unit roots and exhibit cointegration. However, the cointegrating vector is ...
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The effect of variable pay schemes on workplace absenteeism
(2012)The effect of variable pay schemes on workplace absenteeism is estimated using two cross-sections of private sector British establishments. Establishments that explicitly link pay with individual performance are found to ...
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Employment Outcomes in the Welfare State
(2008)We examine the implications of tax and subsidy policies for employment in the "three worlds of welfare", Anglo-Saxon, Continental European and Scandinavian. We argue that home production is key to a proper evaluation of ...
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Unemployment and the inter-regional mobility of labour
(1989)In this paper we examine the relation between unemployment and the interregional migration of labour. First, the status of a worker affects mobility: an unemployed worker is more likely to move than an employed one. Second, ...
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Unemployment Risks
(Routledge, 1992)
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Who are the unemployed?
(1990)
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Relative Wage Flexibility in Four Countries,
(University Press, 1990)
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International technology diffusion and the growth of TFP in the manufacturing sector of developing economies
(2005)This paper evaluates various channels through which foreign technology diffuses to the manufacturing sector of developing economies. These economies undertake virtually no own R&D, so they rely on foreign technology to a ...
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Doctoral Thesis