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The shifting balance of private and public welfare activity in the United Kingdom, 1979 to 2007

Edmiston, Daniel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

updating the existing evidence with a snapshot of the welfare mix in 2007/2008 across five different welfare sectors: Education …, Health, Housing, Income Maintenance and Social Security and Personal Social Services. The paper systematically explores who …

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The changing architecture of the UK welfare state

Hills, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This article looks at the way in which the role of the state has evolved within different aspects of welfare activity (broadly defined) in the United Kingdom since 1979 and forward to the possible impacts of the plans of the Coalition government that took office in 2010 for changing that role...

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Education and health knowledge: evidence from UK compulsory schooling reforms

Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index … due to the education reforms did not significantly affect health knowledge: a one-year increase in schooling is estimated …

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London: planning the ungovernable city

Gordon, Ian; Travers, Tony - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

governance issues. Yates’ thesis only partially fits the London case because a separate lower tier of lower tier of borough …

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Banking on trust: managing reputation risk in financial service organizations

Scott, Susan V.; Walsham, Geoff - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

organizations and their stakeholders: namely the issues of governance, customer service and staff retention. Although part of the …

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From government to governance: external influences on business risk management

Hutter, Bridget M.; Jones, Clive J - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

The influence of external organizations and pressures on business risk management practices has hitherto been examined through the influence of state regulatory regimes on businesses. This article concentrates on key socio-legal concerns about the influence of the law in social and economic...

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Dynamic consent: a possible solution to improve patient confidence and trust in how electronic patient records are used in medical research

Williams, Hawys; Spencer, Karen; Sanders, Caroline; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

With one million people treated every 36 hours, routinely collected UK National Health Service (NHS) health data has … a loss of patient and public trust. The sharing of sensitive health care data can only be done through maintaining such …

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Say pays! Shareholder voice and firm performance

Cuñat, Vicente; Giné, Mireia; Guadalupe, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

: profitability and labor productivity increase, while overheads and investment fall. In contrast, we find limited effects on pay …

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Regionality revisited: an examination of the direction of spread of currency crises

Dasgupta, Amil; Leon-Gonzalez, Roberto; Shortland, Anja - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

measured by quality-of-governance indicators, plays an important role in determining the direction of contagion in all the …

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A proposal for an open-source financial risk model

Ho Hwang, Jong - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper presents a policy proposal for building a new framework for gathering, measuring and disclosing financial risk information in the global economy. The paper examines the current state of the financial risk framework, notes its advantages and disadvantages and proposes a new construct...

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