This paper examines the phenomenon of intra-urban unemployment in the context of school-leaver unemployment in Scottish cities. Unlike much of the previous work in this area, the paper avoids the 'ecological fallacy' by utilising data on individual school leavers from the 1981 Scottish School...

The central argument for increasing the number of women on corporate boards of directors has been the so-called "business case for diversity" which proposes that women and minorities add valuable new perspectives that result in enhanced corporate performance. Unfortunately, the empirical...

A commonly held view is that the frequency and value of pre-trial settlements in civil disputes are greatly influenced by the cost allocation regime that is in place if the case goes to trial. There is a large and growing theoretical literature on this subject but almost no empirical evidence....