Purpose – This paper seeks to investigate the determinants of private medical insurance (PMI) consumption in the UK. Design/methodology/approach – A unique combination of panel data estimators, reduced from equations and instrumental variables, applied to six waves of the British Household...

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Conclusion; Note; References; 2. The scorpion's tail: technology and globalization converge; Introduction; Knowledge as power; Ethics, talent and the...

Part I settlement histories and their representations -- 1. Introduction: settlements at the edge -- 2. The dynamic history of government settlements at the edge -- 3. Boom back or blow back? growth strategies in mono-industrial resource towns - 'east' and 'west' -- 4. International migration...

On April 30, 2008, the UK Competition Commission published the final report of its two year investigation into the supply of groceries in the UK. This article gives a UK perspective on some of the issues covered in the recent <em>Whole Foods</em> decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of...

Despite repeated government policies to introduce market-orientation and customer-focus into the UK National Health Service, there is still much anecdotal evidence of unsuccessful policy implementation. In this article we investigate the attitudes of healthcare managers to one recent policy...

This article presents a summary of annual Civil Service statistics for the year ending 31 March 2008. It compares trends over time with a particular focus on gross annual earnings broken down to different groups in the workforce such as men, women, ethnic minorities and those with a...