The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for … extent the conclusions of some studies change if some alternative indicator for the tax burden on labour is employed. We … indicator for the tax burden on labour is also shown to affect the conclusions of some well-known empirical models. …

We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association …