funding process when student mobility between schools is limited by land market imperfections, and some aspects of educational …

In this paper we examine links between pupil mobility and pupil and school characteristics at all levels of compulsory … schooling in England. We derive measures of mobility from two academic years of the Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC …

substantial movements beneath the surface. The US and the UK underwent a process of income polarisation. For the study of mobility …, stochastic kernels are used, because standard approaches based on mobility indices and transition matrices, which group persons … into income classes of arbitrary size, lead to misleading conclusions. The measures attribute greater mobility to Germany …

2014: - Blanden, J. & Macmillan, L. (2014) Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Help or Hindrance? CASEpaper …

This paper examines integration decisions of successive duopolists. It is shown that qualitatively the same pattern of … integration emerges whether there is Cournot or Bertrand competition in the input market. The degree of integration in the … the fixed integration cost. There jis a tendency for partial integration when one upstream firm is relatively efficient …

This review of recent contributions reveals common conclusions about the effects of integration on location. For high … trade costs, the need to supply markets locally encourages firms to spread across different regions. Integration weakens the …

Temkin (1986,1993) sets out a philosophical basis for the analysis of income inequality that provides an important … axiomatic structure and we use this structure to derive a new class of inequality indices and an inequality ordering. This class … of indices has a family relationship to well-known measures of inequality, deprivation and poverty. The ordering is shown …