This paper reexamines earlier work by Atkinson and Harrison (1978, 1979), which presented a consistent series of estate-based estimates of the distribution of wealth in Englnd and Wales for the years 1923 to 1972, and conducted an econometric analysis of the trends over time in the distribution....

In this paper, the author shows that the conventional least squares estimator in the standard linear model is uniquely defined by a system of axioms based on transformations of that model. The author also shows that the corresponding system of axioms for the error variance parameter yields an...

This paper examines the employment and turnover experiences of U.K. manufacturing industries. It focuses on differences in the rate of job loss, differences in the rate of turnover, and the link between the two. Cross-section evidence is provided, covering all the manufacturing industries, and...