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Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95

Koeniger, Winfried - 2001

liberal financial market. ? the effects seem to be important on the macro level in the 70s whereas they become negligible in …

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Does Entry Regulation Hinder Job Creation? Evidence from the French Retail Industry

Bertrand, Marianne; Kramarz, Francis - 2002

Are product market and entry regulation key sources of low employment growth in many European countries? We investigate …

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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market

Heshmati, Almas - 2012

market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature … and demand response in the power market and their relationships. It enhances demand response in the electricity market …

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Regulation and UK retailing productivity: evidence from micro data

Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - 2009

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and 2003. We document a shift to smaller shops, particularly within supermarket chains, following a regulatory change in 1996 which increased the costs of opening large stores. This...

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Management economics in a large retail organization

Siebert, William Stanley; Zubanov, Nikolay - 2008

We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of which turns out to be commercial awareness, where able managers raise labour productivity by 17%...

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Child Expenditure: The Role of Working Mothers, Lone Parents, Sibling Composition and Household Provision

Farrell, Lisa; Shields, Michael A. - 2001

This paper uses detailed diary information from the British Family Expenditure Survey (FES) to investigate the expenditure patterns of school-age children. We estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System, and find that, whilst most commodities are normal goods, sweets and toys are luxury...

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The effect of product demand on inequality: Evidence from the US and the UK

Leonardi, Marco - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between product demand and the pattern of rising skill premia and rising employment of skilled workers in the US and the UK since the 1980s. If more skilled workers demand more skill-intensive goods, then an increase in relative skill supply will also induce...

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Decomposing changes in income risk using consumption data

Blundell, Richard; Low, Hamish; Preston, Ian - 2011

We develop a new approach to the decomposition of income risk within a nonstationary model of intertemporal choice. The approach allows for changes in income risk over the life-cycle and with the business cycle. It requires only repeated cross-section data and can allow for mixtures of...

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Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009

Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics....

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

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