This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and planned rather than decentralized and coincidental. In an economic system without law or property rights, a kleptocratic state may arise as a predatory hierarchy from a state...

We often observe minority ethnic groups at a disadvantage relative to the majority. Why is this and what can be done about it? Efforts made to assimilate, and time, are two elements working to bring the minority into line with the majority. A third element, the degree to which the majority...

A recent phenomenon of globalisation has come to be known as "Knowledge Process Outsourcing" (KPO), whereby knowledge-intensive R&D work is outsourced to an outside firm or an offshore-subsidiary. Primary motives of KPO are thought to be availability of highly-skilled labour, locations of...

The background to the Report is the public policy debate about the introduction of a Bill of Rights or written constitution that would build on the Human Rights Act (HRA) (1998) and further strengthen human rights protection by codifying new, additional and / or strengthened rights including...

The findings set out in this Report challenge the perception of low population support for rights overall - and the view that the public think rights are a “charter” for criminals and terrorists. They support the reasoning of the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) that economic and...

The aim of the paper is to study the relation between the demand for human rights and foreconomic prosperity. It analyzes the demand not, as it is often done in the literature, from the“voice” perspective (political activity), but rather looks at the “exit” perspective...

T.W. Schultz (1975) proposed that returns to human capital were highest in economicenvironments where technology, price or production shocks were common and managerial skillsto adapt resource allocations to those shocks were most in need. We hypothesize that variationin returns to human capital...

[...]This paper, and its companion, Definition of equality and framework formeasurement: Final Recommendations of the Equalities Review SteeringGroup on Measurement (CASEpaper 120) were prepared as backgroundpapers to assist in the development of the measurement framework for theEqualities...

[...]This paper, and its companion, Developing a Capability List: FinalRecommendations of the Equalities Review Steering Group on Measurement(CASEpaper 121), were prepared as background papers to assist in thedevelopment of the measurement framework for the Equalities Review. Itdiscusses the...