This paper challenges what is the standard account of UK unemployment, namely that the major swings in unemployment over the past 25 years are due predominantly to movements in the underlying empirical "natural rate of unemploymentʺ (NRU). Our analysis suggests that the British NRU has remained...

Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often depends on feedback received from other parents. Therefore, it is important to understand whether parental satisfaction with the school depends only on objective measures of the...

We usually consider it progress when a country begins to shift from an autocratic to a democratic form of government. However, the introduction of elections and other early trappings of democracy often has the perverse effect of exacerbating political instability. It also increases the...

Die Analogie zu "Wohnen in Nachbarschaften" ist nicht zufällig. Längst wissen wir, dass das Aufwachsen von Kindern und der Erfolg von Bildung und Erziehung von ihrem gesamten Lebensumfeld abhängen. Die Modernisierung des Schulsystems in England wurde daher folgerichtig unter das Motto...