The @Status of Women in Classical Economic Thought is the first volume to explore how the classical economists explained the status of women in society. As the essays show, the focus of the classical school was not nearly as limited to the activities of men as conventional wisdom has supposed....

Through the inter-war years disciples of Frederick W. Taylor built and sustained an alliance with organized labor that centered on the development of what has become known as the mutual gains enterprise. This paper examines this association tracing its origins and evolution. In the process it...

This article examines why firms in Shanghai comply or over-comply with social insurance obligations in a regulatory environment where the expected punishment for non-compliance is low. Our first finding is that firms found to be in non-compliance in the first audit in 2001 were moved into a...

Across the developing world education is seen as a means of raising levels of everyday wellbeing and is being linked to improved measures of productivity and economic growth. This paper employs a household production function framework to examine the determinants of school attendance among...

This paper draws on a unique data set collected in audits in 2001 and 2002 by the Bureau of Labour and Social Security in Shanghai to examine why firms in Shanghai comply or over-comply with social insurance obligations in a regulatory environment where the expected punishment for non-compliance...

HODGKINSON A., NYLAND C. and POMFRET S. (2001) The determination of location in New South Wales, Reg. Studies 35,39-55. There are currently a number of competing explanations of the role which regions play in national economic development processes, all of which appear to have elements of...