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Panic on the streets of London: police, crime and the july 2005 terror attacks

Draca, Mirko; Machin, Stephen; Witt, Robert - 2008

terror attacks that hit central London in July 2005. The attacks resulted in a large redeployment of police officers to … central London boroughs as compared to outer London - in fact, police deployment in central London increased by over 30 … London. Study of the timing of the crime reductions and their magnitude, the types of crime which were more likely to be …

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Unions, training, and firm performance

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2008

The present paper uses a combination of workplace and linked employee-workplace data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey and the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions on training incidence, training intensity/coverage, and training duration. It...

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The changing economic advantage from private school

Green, Francis; Machin, Stephen; Murphy, Richard; Zhu, Yu - 2010

Despite its relatively small size, the private school sector plays a prominent role in British society. This paper focuses on changing wage and education differentials between privately educated and state educated individuals in Britain. It reports evidence that the private/state school wage...

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Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95

Koeniger, Winfried - 2001

Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk and car insurance using data from the UK. The main...

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Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009

Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics....

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

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The impact of union dissolution on moving distances and destinations in the UK

Feijten, Peteke; van Ham, Maarten - 2011

The number of people who have ever experienced a divorce, or a split up of a non-marital union, is rising every year. It is well known that union dissolution has a disruptive effect on the housing careers of those involved, often leading to downward moves on the housing ladder. Much less is...

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Work hours constraints and health

Bell, David; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2011

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy. Our study investigates this question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between...

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Is graduate under-employment persistent? Evidence from the United Kingdom

Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert E. - 2011

This paper examines the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. For the cohort of individuals who graduated in 2002/3, micro-data collected by the Higher Education Statistical Agency, are used to calculate the rates of non-graduate job employment 6 months and 42...

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Are workers in the cultural industries paid differently?

Wetzels, Cecile - 2007

This paper aims to explore wage differentials between employees in three sub-industries of the cultural industries compared with the main (1-digit level) industry to which they belong. We use data from the Wage Indicator Questionnaire 2001/2002, which includes information on 12,757 employees in...

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