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years. It has three parts. The firstconcentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the US povertyline remained …
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We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures ofincome risk and draw attention to the importance of demographic factors as asource of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution tototal income risk of demographic and labour market factors....
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Western Europe than suggested in the historiography. The measurement of regional market potential proves strongly sensitive to …
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Recently, there has been a growing interest in social capital and in the difficulties related to its measurement. In …
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Using a new source of evidence we explore the geographical mobility of mid-nineteenth century seamen. Among seamen born outside London, the tall, the literate and those who could remember the exact day, month and year when they were born - characteristics that we suggest mark them out as men...
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: its recipesfor development, its possibilities of measurement, and fromdifferences in political economy. These dimensions …
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Design standards are carriers and creators of facts, enabling facts about product value to travel between groups, and assisting in the creation of product value by establishing a reference or comparison against which product attributes are compared. However, when design standards are not...
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Equalities Review SteeringGroup on Measurement (CASEpaper 120) were prepared as backgroundpapers to assist in the development of … the measurement framework for theEqualities Review. The companion paper discusses the key challengesinvolved in … translating capability theory into a practical measurement tool inthe context of measuring inequality in Britain in the 21st …
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Steering Group on Measurement(CASEpaper 121), were prepared as background papers to assist in thedevelopment of the measurement …), a measurement framework for monitoring trends ininequality, exploring the causes of inequality, and identifying possible …
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