This article shows that little of the gender earnings gap in the public and private sectors in Britain are explained by differences in employee characteristics. The differences in workplace characteristics, however, make a significant, sizeable contribution. It is shown that performance related...

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...