Over the last decade, there has been growing attention to the issue of neighbourhood governance and community participation in China. The focus has been on the extent to which community involvement in rule-making and decision-making processes could be promoted. The issue of community...

Despite large falls in output in the FSU, rather than firing workers, workers were subjected to long spells of unpaid leave or non-payment of wages (wage arrears). Wage arrears is a significant problem in the countries of the FSU, particularly in light of price liberalization on most goods and...

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 19, The Decline of Employment Among Older People in Britain, by Nigel Campbell, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cp/CASEpaper19.pdf

The transition from a command economy in the FSU resulted in increased activities in the informal sector. However despite prevalent delays in wage payments many workers were still observed to be working full-time in the formal sector. Here a model of workers' labour supply decisions incorporates...

In this paper, we use the individual-level USR data for the whole population of 1993 leavers from the iquest;oldiquest; universities of the UK to investigate the determinants of graduate occupational earnings. Among other results, we find that there are significant differences in the...

Older men have experienced the largest falls in employment over the last twenty years. Two-fifths of men aged between 55 and 65 are without work, compared to one-fifth in 1979, equivalent to 600,000 fewer jobs. Older women have not shared in the general rise of female employment. This paper...