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government continued to want to balance its budget. Wales is therefore looking at an extraordinary ten or more years of … the independent Wales Public Services 2025 Programme based at Cardiff Business School, looking at the challenges facing … government in Wales at they set their tax and spending policies. It also predicts the UK economic and fiscal situation …
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This paper investigates the determinants of profit change over the period 1991-2008 for the Water and Sewerage Companies (WaSCs) in the English and Welsh water and sewerage industry. We firstly apply an input oriented profit decomposition approach following the approach of De Witte & Saal...
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companies (WaSCs) in England and Wales. We apply a panel index approach across WaSCs over time to decompose unit …
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potentially important long term implications. We use micro data for England and Wales that contain an unusually rich set of …
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British secondary schools moved from a system of extensive and early selection and tracking in secondary schools to one with comprehensive schools during the 1960s and 70s. Before the reform, students would take an exam at age eleven, which determined whether they would attend an academically...
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This paper shows that generators exercised increasing market power in the England and Wales wholesale electricity …
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explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to …-based entrepreneurship, we outline FDI and entrepreneurship policies for Wales and Ireland and key measures of knowledge creation, and …
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the most deprived parts of Wales have the lowest levels of migration and that both in and outmigration rates are … that people leaving Wales are younger and more educated than migrants to Wales. Furthermore, younger and more educated …
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This report examines the Irish, Northern Irish, Welsh, Scottish, and English residential markets with a particular focus on their capacity to increase housing supply over the short to medium term. Our approach compares and contrasts how differences across the housing markets, in key costs of...
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