This chapter is concerned with access to bank finance by ethnic minority businesses (EMBs) in the U.K., focusing particularly on the process of decision-making by bank managers with respect to credit applications by entrepreneurs from ethnic minority groups. The results reported in this chapter...

Using regional incomes as the reference group, disposable income poverty rates are computed for the two most recent waves of Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data available for the following countries: Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In...

This paper examines the observed complementarity between the use of profit sharing and the delegation of decision making power to production line workers. The paper makes use of a new economy wide data set which provides information on pay and decision making for a large number of production...

The impact of unions on productivity growth has received extensive attention from researchers in industrial relations and economics. Despite a voluminous literature, controversy continues regarding the effect of unions on productivity growth. In this paper, meta-analysis and meta-regression...

The study analyses production worker hiring standards based on time series personnel records drawn from matched plants in the U.S., U.K., Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium. Our hypothesis is that labor market regulation pushes upwards hiring standards for production workers. Labor market...

Internationalisation of higher education in an era of globalisation -- International students in higher education -- Space and time in higher education -- Empirical study results -- Disneyfication in higher education -- Institutional branding -- Reconceptualisation of internationalisation in...