The UK has taken a historic step towards regionalized government with its creation of a Scottish Parliament and Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies. However this has raised important question marks about the existing funding system, the 'Barnett formula'. The purpose of this article is to...

McVicar D. Local level Incapacity Benefits rolls in Britain: correlates and convergence, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. There is considerable variation across British Local Authority Districts in the proportion of the working-age population claiming incapacity benefits, ranging from 2% in Hart to 16% in...

McVicar D. (2006) Why do disability benefit rolls vary between regions? A review of the evidence from the USA and the UK, Regional Studies 40, 519-533. Over the last 30 years, many Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries have seen a dramatic rise in the share of...