While there is a vast literature on the effect of unemployment insurance on unemployment duration, in almost all of these studies the replacement ratio is the key explanatory variable. Does not contest the almost universal findings that the higher the ratio of unemployment income to that of...

Discusses the recommendations of the Greenbury Committee on the remuneration of directors in public companies. Specifically comments on the following issues: the establishment, membership and status of remuneration committees in public companies; the determination of remuneration policy for...