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CASEbrief
The National Living Wage and falling earnings inequality Kerris Cooper and Abigail McKnight
March 2020
Paper No' CB 38:
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Tags: national living wage; earnings inequality; minimum wages

Special or Commissioned Report
Understanding, Beliefs and Treatment of Dementia in Pakistan
September 2019
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Tags: dementia; aged

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper
Flat-lining or seething beneath the surface? Two decades of changing economic inequality in the UK Polina Obolenskaya and John Hills July 2019
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JEL Classification: D30; D31

Tags: inequality; wealth; income; wages; distribution

CASEbrief
Money and Meaning: How working-age social security benefit recipients understand and use their money Kate Summers
December 2018
Paper No' CASEbrief 35:
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Tags: universal credit; benefits; working-age; unemployment; stigma; social security

CASEpaper
Inequality and the Capability Approach Tania Burchardt and Rod Hick
January 2017
Paper No' CASE/201:
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JEL Classification: I31; I32; D31

Tags: capability approach; inequality; distribution; advantage; measurement; poverty; income; wealth; multidimensional

Public Economics Programme Discussion Paper
Pareto models, top incomes, and recent trends in UK income inequality Stephen P Jenkins
August 2016
Paper No' PEP 30:
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JEL Classification: C46; C81; D31

Tags: inequality; top incomes; pareto distribution; generalized pareto distribution; survey under-coverage; hbai; spi

CASEpaper
The changing distribution of individual incomes in the UK before and after the recession Eleni Karagiannaki and Lucinda Platt September 2015
Paper No' CASE/192:
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JEL Classification: D31

Tags: individual incomes; great recession; income distribution; uk; working age; pensioners; gender; ethnicity; housing tenure

CASEpaper
The Coalition's Record on Employment: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015 Abigail McKnight
March 2015
Paper No' CASE/187:
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JEL Classification: J21; J68; J08

Tags: employment policy; evaluation of labour policies; unemployment; wages

SPCC Research Report
Falling Behind, Getting Ahead: The Changing Structure of Inequality in the UK, 2007-2013 John Hills, Jack Cunliffe, Polina Obolenskaya and Eleni Karagiannaki March 2015
Paper No' SPCCRR05:
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Tags: poverty; exclusion and equalities; equality; capabilities and human rights; social policy; socio-economic inequalities; earnings inequality; educational inequalities; wealth inequality; income; employment; men; women; disability; inequality; ethnicity; age; crisis; recession

CASEpaper
Beyond Radicalism and Resignation: The Competing Logics for Public Participation in Policy Decisions Rikki Dean
December 2014
Paper No' CASE/184:
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Tags: public participation; citizen engagement; participatory democracy; deliberative democracy; participatory governance; choice; voice; bureaucracy; health policy; housing policy; social exclusion policy; participation typology; grid-group cultural theory

Development Discussion Paper
Profit with Purpose? A Theory of Social Enterprise with Experimental Evidence Timothy Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak
November 2013
Paper No' EOPP 047:
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Tags: social enterprise; motivated agents; non-profits

CASEreport
Developing an indicator-based framework for monitoring older people's human rights: key findings for Peru, Mozambique and Kyrgyzstan Polly Vizard August 2013
Paper No' CASEreport 078:
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Tags: human rights; older people; multidimensional deprivation; neglect; abuse; discrimination; peru; mozambique; kyrgyzstan; helpage international; violence; dignity; participation; standard of living;

CASEpaper
A question of quality: Do children from disadvantaged backgrounds receive lower quality early years education and care in England? Ludovica Gambaro, Kitty Stewart and Jane Waldfogel March 2013
Paper No' CASE/171:
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JEL Classification: I24, I38, J13

Tags: early childhood; pre-school; childcare; quality; disadvantaged families

CASEpaper
Accounting for cross-country differences in wealth inequality Frank A Cowell, Eleni Karagiannaki and Abigail McKnight
March 2013
Paper No' CASE/168:
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JEL Classification: C81, D31, D63, I24, I31

Tags: household wealth; wealth inequality; debt; housing assets; educational loans; age-wealth profiles; decomposition

CASEpaper
Mapping and measuring the distribution of household wealth: A cross-country analysis Frank A Cowell, Eleni Karagiannaki and Abigail McKnight November 2012
Paper No' CASE/165:
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JEL Classification: C81, D31, D63, I24, I31

Tags: household wealth; wealth inequality; debt; housing assets; educational loans; age-wealth profiles

Development Discussion Paper
Decentralization of Health and Education in Developing Countries: A Quality-Adjusted Review of the Empirical Literature Anila Channa and Jean-Paul Faguet July 2012
Paper No' EOPP 038:
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Tags: decentralization; school-based management; education; health; service delivery; developing countries; preference matching; technical efficiency

Development Discussion Paper
The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics Robin Burgess, Matthew Hansen, Benjamin Olken, Peter Potapov, Stefanie Sieber and April 2012
Paper No' EOPP 037:
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JEL Classification: D73,L73

Tags: political economy; corruption; deforestation; cournot competition; satellite imagery; environmental monitoring; illegal logging; climate change; biodiversity

CASEpaper
The Impact of School Context: What headteachers say Martin Thrupp and Ruth Lupton
December 2011
Paper No' CASE/158:
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JEL Classification: I24

Tags: schools; educational inequalities; deprivation; disadvantage; context

CASEpaper
Pathways and penalties: Mothers’ employment trajectories and wage growth in the Families and Children Study Francesca Bastagli and Kitty Stewart December 2011
Paper No' CASE/157:
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JEL Classification: J22, J24, J31

Tags: maternal employment; wages; mothers; employment trajectories

CASEpaper
Towards the ‘Big Society’: What role for neighbourhood working? Evidence from a comparative European study Catherine Durose, Jonathan France, Liz Richardson and Ruth Lupton October 2011
Paper No' CASE/154:
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JEL Classification: H70

Tags: big society; local government; neighbourhood; neighbourhood management; community

International Studies Paper
MEIJI JAPAN’S ASCENT TOWARDS WORLD POWER Ian Nish
July 2011
Paper No' IS/2011/559:
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Tags: japanese native village (london; 1880s); anglo-japanese alliance; valentine chirol; ge morrison; jutaro komura; takaaki kato; london school of economics; lafcadio hearn; yoshisaburo okakura; kikuchi dairoku; etsujiro uehara; anglo-japanese commercial treaty of 1911; japan’s high treason trial (1910); times japan supplement; 1910

Theoretical Economics Paper
Sales and Collusion in a Market with Storage Francesco Nava and Pasquale Schiraldi
July 2011
Paper No' TE/2011/549:
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JEL Classification: L11, L12, L13, L41

Tags: storage; sales; collusion; cartel size; repeated games

CASEpaper
Employment trajectories and later employment outcomes for mothers in the British Household Panel Survey: An analysis by skill level Kitty Stewart May 2011
Paper No' CASE/144:
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JEL Classification: J22, J24, J31

Tags: maternal employment; employment trajectories; wage growth

CASEpaper
Are there neighbourhood effects on teenage parenthood in the UK, and does it matter for policy? A review of theory and evidence Ruth Lupton and Dylan Kneale September 2010
Paper No' CASE/141:
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JEL Classification: I30

Tags: neighbourhood; neighbourhood effects; area effects; teenage parenthood

CASEreport
An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK - Report of the National Equality Panel The report looks at the relationship between people’s economic outcomes and their characteristics and finds that inequalities in people's economic positions are also related to their characteristics such as gender, age, ethnicity, religion and education. John Hills
January 2010
Paper No' CASEreport 060:
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Tags: inequality; economic inequalities in the uk; educational outcomes; employment status; wages and earnings; individual income; incomes on a household basis; household wealth; distributions of economic outcomes; education; employment; wages and earnings; gender; age; ethnicity and religion; disability; sexual orientation; social class; housing tenure; nation and region; area deprivation;

Development Discussion Paper
Bad Apples: Political Paralysis and the Quality of Politicians Gabriel Leon
August 2009
Paper No' EOPP 013:
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JEL Classification: H1, H54, D7, O10

Tags: political agency; corruption; elections; term limits; economic reform; politician quality

Econometrics Paper
An Alternative Way of Computing Efficient Instrumental Variable Estimators Xiaohong Chen, David T. Jacho-Chávez and Oliver Linton June 2009
Paper No' EM/2009/536:
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JEL Classification: C12, C13, C14.

Tags: instrumental variables; minimum distance; semiparametric efficiency; two-stage least squares

Development Discussion Paper
Do Small States Get More Federal Monies? Myth and Reality About the US Senate Malapportionment Valentino Larcinese, Leonzio Rizzo and Cecilia Testa April 2009
Paper No' EOPP 007:
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JEL Classification: D72; H61; H77

Tags: federal budget; malapportionment; small state advantage; overrepresentation

Economics of Industry Paper
Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation Sharon Belenzon and Mark Schankerman
October 2008
Paper No' EI 47:
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JEL Classification: L14; L17; L41; O31;O32

Tags: open source software; innovation; incentives; intrinsic motivation; motivated agents; reputation; reciprocity.

Econometrics Paper
Smoothness Adaptive Average Derivative Estimation Marcia M Schafgans and Victoria Zinde-Walshyz
August 2008
Paper No' EM/2008/529:
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JEL Classification: C14

Tags: nonparametric estimation; density weighted average derivative estimator; combined estimator.

Japanese Studies Programme Paper
Earnings Quality, Accruals and Subjective Goodwill Accounting Yuko Katsuo
April 2008
Paper No' JS526:
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Tags: accounting accruals; earnings quality; subjective goodwill; income measurement; allocation problem; value relevance; managerialdiscretion.

Econometrics Paper
Efficient Estimation of a Semiparametric Characteristic-Based Factor Model of Security Returns Gregory Connor, Matthias Hagmann and Oliver Linton October 2007
Paper No' EM/2007/524:
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JEL Classification: G12; C14

Tags: additive models; arbitrage pricing theory; factor model; fama-french; kernel estimation; nonparametric regression; panel data.

CASEpaper
Employment trajectories for mothers in low-skilled work: Evidence from the British Lone Parent Cohort Kitty Stewart
May 2007
Paper No' CASE/122:
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JEL Classification: J22; J24; J31

Tags: maternal employment; employment trajectories; wage progression

This paper has been revised and updated May 2008

Econometrics Paper
Selectivity and the gender wage gap decomposition in the presence of a joint decision process Marcia M Schafgans and Morton Stelcnery December 2006
Paper No' EM/2006/513:
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JEL Classification: C34; J71; D13; J31

Tags: sample selection model; gender wage differences; oaxaca wage decomposition; ‘discrimination’.

Econometrics Paper
Semiparametric Estimation of a Characteristic-based Factor Model of Common Stock Returns Gregory Connor and Oliver Linton
September 2006
Paper No' EM/2006/506:
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JEL Classification: G12. C14

Tags: characteristic-based factor model; arbitrage pricing theory; kernel estimation; nonparametric estimation.

CASEpaper
Assessing the impact of illness, caring and ethnicity on social activity Lucinda Platt
March 2006
Paper No' CASE/108:
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JEL Classification: I31

Tags: long-term illness; caring; ethnic group; social engagement; social capital

DARP Paper
Hierarchic contracting Rafael Hortala-Vallve and Miguel Sanchez
September 2005
Paper No' DARP 073:
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JEL Classification: D80; J30; L22; M12

Tags: principal-multi-agent relationships; moral hazard; team production; decentralisation; hierarchies; contract design

Econometrics Paper
A method of moments estimator for semiparametric index models Bas Donkers and Marcia M Schafgans
July 2005
Paper No' EM/2005/493:
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JEL Classification: C14; C31; C52

Tags: semiparametric estimation; multiple index models; average derivative functionals; generalized methods of moments estimator; rank testing

CASEpaper
Parental Investment in Childhood and Later Adult Well-Being: Can More Involved Parents Offset the Effects of Socioeconomic Disadvantage? This paper uses analysis from the longitudinal National Child Development Study to aim to investigate whether the social capital produced by greater parental involvement can counteract some of the harmful effects of less financial capital? Darcy Hango May 2005
Paper No' CASE 098:
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JEL Classification: I21;I32;J13;Z13

Tags: parental involvement; socioeconomic disadvantage; social capital; education; national child development study

Econometrics Paper
The Bootstrap and the Edgeworth Correction for Semiparametric Averaged Derivatives Yoshihiko Nishiyama and Peter M Robinson
January 2005
Paper No' EM/2005/483:
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JEL Classification: C14; C24

Tags: bootstrap; edgeworth correction; semiparametric averaged derivatives

CASEpaper
Teenage Expectations and Desires about Family Formation in the United States Robert D. Plotnick
December 2004
Paper No' CASE 090:
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JEL Classification: J1

Tags: family formation; marriage; childbearing; nonmarital childbearing

CASEpaper
Income Mobility in Old Age in Britain and Germany Asghar Zaidi, Joachim R. Frick and Felix Büchel
December 2004
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Tags: income mobility; old age; pensions; britain and germany

CASEpaper
Employment, Family Union, and Childbearing Decisions in Great Britain Arnstein Aassve, Simon Burgess, Matt Dickson and Carol Propper April 2004
Paper No' CASE 084:
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JEL Classification: J12; J13; J22

Tags: demographic transitions; marriage; divorce; birth; employment

CASEpaper
Intergenerational and Life-Course Transmission of Social Exclusion in the 1970 British Cohort Study Wendy Sigle-Rushton
February 2004
Paper No' CASE 078:
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JEL Classification: I30; J10

Tags: disadvantage; social exclusion; longitudinal; inter-generational

CASEpaper
Disability and Disadvantage: Selection, onset and duration effects Stephen P Jenkins and John A. Rigg
November 2003
Paper No' CASE 074:
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JEL Classification: J15;J18;J21

Tags: disability; selection; disadvantage; work; employment

Theoretical Economics Paper
Competition and Incentives with Motivated Agents Timothy Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak
November 2003
Paper No' TE/2003/465:
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Tags: motivated agents; incentives in the public sector; school competition.

Econometrics Paper
LARCH, Leverage and Long Memory Liudas Giraitis, Remigijus Leipus, Peter M Robinson and Donatas Surgailis
October 2003
Paper No' EM/2003/460:
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Tags: leverage; long memory; linear arch; larch; finiteness of moments.

CASEpaper
Identifying Vulnerable Groups in the Kyrgyz Labour Market: Some Implications for the National Poverty Reduction Strategy Sabine Bernabe and Alexandre Kolev June 2003
Paper No' CASE 071:
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JEL Classification: I30;J15;J21;J81

Tags: household surveys; unemployment; employment; working conditions; poverty; wage determination; vulnerable groups

CASEpaper
Continuity and Change in Pathways to Young Adult Disadvantage: Results from a British Birth Cohort John Hobcraft
April 2003
Paper No' CASE 066:
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JEL Classification: J62

Tags: intergenerational transmission; disadvantage; gender

CASEpaper
Recent Changes in the Distribution of the Social Wage Tom Sefton
December 2002
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Tags: social wage; benefits in kind; redistribution; inequality; welfare spending

DARP Paper
Who Bore the Burden of Wage Arrears in the Kyrgyz Republic? Ceema Zahra Namazie
November 2002
Paper No' DARP 064:
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Tags: transition; wage arrears; labour demand.

Theoretical Economics Paper
The Wrong Kind of Transparency Andrea Prat
October 2002
Paper No' TE/2002/439:
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Tags: transparency; career concerns; expert agents.

CASEpaper
Growing Up: School, family and area influences on adolescents' later life chances Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner and Carol Propper September 2001
Paper No' CASE 049:
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Tags: family background; poverty; wages; impact of schooling; area effects

Theoretical Economics Paper
Continuity of the Equilibrium Price Density and its Uses in Peak-Load Pricing Anthony Horsley and Andrew J Wrobel
May 2001
Paper No' TE/2001/417:
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Tags: price density; continuous-time peak-load pricing; pumped storage.

Econometrics Paper
The Averaged Periodogram for Nonstationary Vector Time Series D Marinucci and Peter M Robinson
December 2000
Paper No' EM/2000/408:
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Tags: averaged periodogram; nonstationary processes; fractional brownian motion.

Theoretical Economics Paper
Efficiency Rents of Pumped-Storage Plants and their Uses for Operation and Investment Decisions Anthony Horsley and Andrew J Wrobel November 2000
Paper No' TE/2000/405:
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Tags: pumped storage; peak-load pricing; marginal values; linear programming

Theoretical Economics Paper
The Short-Run Approach to LRMC Pricing for Multiple Outputs with Nondifferentiable Costs Anthony Horsley and Andrew J Wrobel
June 2000
Paper No' TE/2000/393:
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Tags: wong-viner theorem; multiple outputs; peak-load pricing; energy storage

Econometrics Paper
Stationarity and Memory of ARCH Models Paolo Zaffaroni
March 2000
Paper No' EM/2000/383:
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Tags: arch (8); garch(p; q); nonlinear moving average representation; strict and weak stationarity; memory.

Theoretical Economics Paper
Efficiency Rents of Storage Plants in Peak-Load Pricing, II: Hydroelectricity Anthony Horsley and Andrew J Wrobel
October 1999
Paper No' TE/1999/372:
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Tags: storage hydro; rental valuation; peak-load pricing; linear programming.

This paper has been published as:
'Efficiency rents of hydroelectric storage plants in continuous-time peak-load pricing', in The Current State of Economic Science, by S B Dahiya (ed.), vol.1, pp.453-480 (Spellbound Publications, Rohtak, 1999).

Econometrics Paper
Studentization in Edgworth Expansions for Estimates of Semiparametric Index Models - (Now published in C Hsiao, K Morimune and J Powell (eds): 'Nonlinear Statistical Modeling' (Festschrift for Takeshi Amemiya), (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp.197-240.) Y Nishiyama and Peter M Robinson October 1999
Paper No' EM/1999/374:
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Tags: edgeworth expansions; semiparametric estimates; averaged derivatives

Econometrics Paper
Edgeworth Expansions for Semiparametric Averaged Derivatives - (Now published in 'Econometrica', 68 (2000), pp.931-979.) Y Nishiyama and Peter M Robinson October 1999
Paper No' EM/1999/373:
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Tags: edgeworth expansion; semiparametric estimates; averaged derivatives

Development Economics Paper
Investigating Rationality in Wage-Setting Sonia R Bhalotra
February 1998
Paper No' DEDPS 10:
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Tags: efficiency wage; near-rationality; panel data; india.

CASEpaper
Early Health Related Behaviours and their Impact on Later Life Chances: Evidence from the US (OUT (publ. in Health Economics, 7(5), 1998) Simon Burgess and Carol Propper February 1998
Paper No' CASE 006:
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Tags: alcohol and drug consumption; anti-social behaviour; earnings; marriage

Development Economics Paper
Inequality, Unemployment and Contemporary Europe Amartya Sen
November 1997
Paper No' DEDPS 07:
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Tags: unemployment; individuality; social exclusion; ageging population; self-help; social responsibility.

Theoretical Economics Paper
Weakening the Sure-Thing Principle: Decomposable Choice under Uncertainty Simon Grant, Atsushi Kajii and Ben Polak
October 1997
Paper No' TE/1997/339:
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Tags: sure-thing principle; decomposable choice; savage; subjective betweenness; ellsberg paradox

Econometrics Paper
Gender Wage Differences in Malaysia: Parametric and Semiparametric Estimation Marcia M Schafgans
March 1997
Paper No' EM/1997/325:
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Tags: malaysia; gender wage differences; gender discrimination; wage determining characteristics; parametric and semiparametric estimation.

Econometrics Paper
Modelling Nonlinearity and Long Memory in Time Series - (Now published in 'Nonlinear Dynamics and Time Series', C D Cutler and D T Kaplan (eds), Fields Institute Communications, 11 (1997), pp.61-170.) Peter M Robinson and Paolo Zaffaroni January 1997
Paper No' EM/1997/319:
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Tags: long memory; arch; nonlinear moving average. jel no.: c22

DARP Paper
Workers or Employers: Who is Shaping Wage Inequality in Portugal? Ana Rute Cardosa
August 1996
Paper No' DARP 022:
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Tags: wage structure; inequality decomposition; portugal; firm

Economics of Industry Paper
One Smart Agent John Sutton
December 1995
Paper No' EI 08:
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Tags: equilibrium concept; one smart agent; market structure; games; survivor principle; rationality requirement; regularities.

DARP Paper
Public Pension Reform, Demographics ,and Inequality Robert K von Weizsäcker
June 1995
Paper No' DARP 011:
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Tags: income distribution; population ageing; old-age insurance reform; fiscal-demographic policy conflicts; social policy design.

Theoretical Economics Paper
Reputation and Allocation of Ownership Maija Halonen
May 1995
Paper No' TE/1995/289:
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Tags: ownership; reputation; allocation; one-shot game; investment costs; agents; optimal control structure.

Econometrics Paper
Galton's Fallacy and Tests of the Convergence Hypothesis (Now published in Scandinavian Journal of Economics 95 (4), 1993, pp.427-443.) Danny Quah 1993
Paper No' EM/1993/265:
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Tags: convergence hypothesis; regressing average growth rates; galton's fallacy; coefficients of arbitrary signs; divergence of cross-country incomes.

Econometrics Paper
Conditions for Strong and Uniform Mixing in Linear Processes James Davidson
1992
Paper No' EM/1992/251:
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Tags: strong mixing; uniform mixing; moving avrage process

Japanese Studies Programme Paper
Wage Differentials in Japan: 1958-85 Michio Morishima
September 1989
Paper No' JS/1989/203:
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Tags: japan; wage differentials; commodity; market; labour market; manual labour; non-manual labour; education; sex; wage payment; seniority.

Japanese Studies Programme Paper
The Role of Japan in the International Economy: A Private View Michio Morishima
January 1986
Paper No' JS/1986/129:
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Tags: international economy; japan; karl marx; max weber; asiatic mode of production; western feudalism; confucian states; capitalist nations; world economic stage.

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