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insufficient attention to diversity of workers (Rank, 2009). As invisible minorities, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT …
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A simple model of process innovation is proposed, where firms learn about their ideal production process by making prototypes. We build around this a dynamic general equilibrium model, and derive conditions under which diversified and specialised cities coexist. New products are developed in...
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, incorporating themes from the literature. It proposes that inclusion hinges on participation in social relationships enacted through … inclusion may accommodate more, or less, objectives, currencies and goods, notwithstanding that some objectives will be mutually … in attitudes and priorities might reveal scope for redrafting the terms of inclusion to promote and preserve greater …
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a limiting long-term illness or disability. In our analysis of inactivity rates by region and age group we find that …
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Relative poverty in the UK has risen massively since 1979 mainly because of increasing worklessness, rising earnings dispersion and benefits indexed to prices, not wages. So poverty is now at a very high level. The economic forces underlying this are the significant shift in demand against the...
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status. In this paper we use data from two large scale social surveys to examine the relationship between disability status … important lifecycle patterns. The incidence of disability increases with age and the effect of this is that disabled people are … that average differences understate the true disability wealth-penalty. People who experience disability later in life have …
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progression of disabled people with respect to differences in age, education, occupation and disability severity. The evidence …
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possible source of additional needs: disability. Using two UK household surveys, we seek to establish whether there are extra … costs of living associated with disability, and to quantify them using the ¿standard of living¿ approach. The underlying … theory is that a household¿s standard of living is a function of income and needs. The extra costs of disability can be …
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caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disability benefits … experience of applying for disability living allowance (DLA) and how they use additional benefit income. Families report that DLA …
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