There is a growing literature explaining foreign direct investment flows in terms of 'technology sourcing', whereby multinational firms invest in certain locations not to exploit their firm-specific assets in the host environment, but to access technology that is generated by host country firms....

Data from a national (U.K.) sample of job vacancies was used to explore the factors determining job vacancy duration. Banded durational dat a necessitated the use of regression techniques which allow for a qua litative dependent variable. The chosen approach was a polychotamous ordered probit...

The late 1960s and early 1970s was a period of intense government intervention in the U.K. economy. This paper considers the effect on Northern Ireland of those policies which acted (intentionally and unintentionally) as labour subsidies. The main measures considered are the Selective Employment...