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In times of increasing oil prices and a weak dollar, European companies that focus their business on the US market may find themselves in a weak position. While many businesses can hedge this kind of risk by relocating production to the US, or employing financial remedies, these strategies may...
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This paper presents an analysis of housing conditions amongst the British urban working class in 1904, using a re-discovered survey. We investigate overcrowding and we find major regional differences. Scottish households were more overcrowded despite being less poor. Investigating the causes of...
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differences. In particular, a much greater proportion of households in urban Scotland were overcrowded than in the rest of Britain …
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This paper investigates the effect of different levels of neighbourhood housing tenure mix on transitions from unemployment to employment and the probability of staying in employment for those with a job. We used individual level data from the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS), a 5.3% sample of...
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This paper seeks to unpick the complex effects of migration, country of birth, and place of residence in Scotland on … Scotland, whom the cross sectional literature suggests are more likely to achieve high occupational status than the Scottish …
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This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...
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-school educational opportunities in Scotland and Sweden that have been able to establish themselves in a rural setting affected by … verstärken. In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir zwei Beispiele nachschulischer Bildungsangebotein Schottland und Schweden …
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move after graduation from Scotland to the rest of the UK or abroad have a much higher rate of graduate employment … education graduates are leaving Scotland for employment reasons. In turn this finding suggests the over …-education/under-employment nexus is a serious problem in Scotland. …
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Scotland, a country that is expected to age rapidly in the future. The parameters of the household formation model are … changes in age structure - is not likely a main determinant of house prices, at least in Scotland. …
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A number of powerful forces have produced uneven opportunities for occupational advancement in Scotland. Edinburgh as … social and occupational mobility. One would certainly anticipate that this is true compared with the urban areas in Scotland …, migration, ethnicity, country of birth and place of residence in Scotland. We do this using longitudinal census data linking …
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