Dental service providers in the British National Health Service (NHS) operate under a number of remuneration arrangements that give rise to different incentives. Using data derived from the Scottish dental system, we examine the relationships between remuneration, patient exemption status and...

CHATTERJI M. and DEWHURST J. H. LL. (1996) Convergence clubs and relative economic performance in Great Britain: 1977-1991, Reg. Studies 30, 31-40. Movements in the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of English and Welsh counties and Scottish regions are examined to test whether the...

1 The Problem and the Setting -- Regional Science as a Discipline -- Techniques of Regional Science -- Objective of the Book -- References -- 2 Analysis and Projection of Population and Income -- Definition of a Region -- Demographic Indexes -- Life Tables -- Makeham’s and Gompertz’s Formula...

Energy, Environment and Regional Development -- Social Costs and Environmental Capacities -- The Theorem of Public Over-Expenditure: The Environmental Overabatement Problem Applied to Belgian Highway Traffic -- Limitations of Regional and Sector-Specific Economic Growth by Pollution Restrictions...

World Energy Situation -- Forecasting Alternative Regional Electric Requirements and Environmental Impacts for Maryland, 1970–1990 -- The Location of Energy-Related Industries in Western Europe -- Regional Balanced Growth in Italy and the Increase in Oil Prices -- A Dynamic Regional Analysis...

The beginnings of globalisation are usually dated to the last third of the twentieth century, alongside the rise of supranational companies, the financial economy and the information technology revolution. However, from the time the Earth was "anthropocized" during the Palaeolithic era,...

International migration afflicts nearly every corner of the globe, from the Americas, Europe and North Africa, and adjoining countries in South Asia. This migration links the socio-economic statuses of migrants' home countries and those into which they are migrating. This phenomenon has a...