The article reviews the book "The European Public Sphere and the Media: Europe in Crisis," edited by Anna Triandafyllidou, Ruth Wodak, and Michał Krzyżanowski.

This paper uses panel data from the British Families and Children Study to analyse the employment patterns of women with children and the ways in which part-time work and interruptions in paid employment influence the wages of working mothers. It pays particular attention to how the relationship...

This paper studies the determinants of firm location choice at the district-level in India to gauge the relative importance of agglomeration economies vis-à-vis good business environment. A peculiar characteristic of the Indian economy is that the unorganised nonfarm sector accounts for 43.2%...

The future success or lack of it, in raising UK public service productivity will have many consequences. Fundamental public outcomes are at stake because, as an outgoing Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Liam Byrne, put it in a letter to his successor - “I’m afraid there is no money.” The...

What determines services TFP: Is it services trade or services‐trade regulation? To respond to this question I use four indicators of international trade in services since 1990 to 2005 – namely FDI inward stock, services imports, domestic sales of foreign affiliates (FATS) and FDI inflows...

The aim of the research on which this paper is based was to investigate, and where possible measure, the effects of policies of marketisation and privatisation of the telecommunication and the oil and gas industries in Croatia with respect to their business efficiency, management, employment...

We present a micro-founded model of design that leads to simple demand rotations. We present simple sufficient conditions that determine when design should be extreme (fully standardized or fully tailored) or rather take intermediate positions.

In this paper we document the evolution of the annual flow of inheritances in the UK during the period 1984-2005 and provide estimates for the overall magnitude and the distribution of inherited wealth. Our results indicate that the period under examination the annual flow of inheritance...