This study tests five hypotheses concerning trends in gender differences in accidents mortality and accident-related behavior, using data for the US, UK, France, Italy, and Japan, 1950-98. As predicted by the Convergence Hypothesis, gender differences have decreased for amount of driving, motor...

Les variations des taux de change et des taux d'interet ont-elles des effets mecaniques sur les parts des principaux pays coechangistes sur les marches internationaux des grains (ble, soja et produits derives) et sur la volatilite des prix sur ces memes marches? L'observation des faits et la...

Real wages and living standards have taken a hard hit in the UK in the recent past. Real wages of the typical (median) UK worker have fallen by almost 10% since 2008 and median family incomes have significantly fallen for working age households. This recent experience is weaker than in the...