Evidence from the UK
The Reservation Wage Curve: Evidence from the UK
... Sheffield S1 4DT UK ABSTRACT We investigate the relationship between an individuals’ reservation wage and unemployment in the local area district. Largely unexplored in the literature this adds to the work which ...
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Criminalising clients: some evidence from the UK
... services from a prostitute whom a third person has subjected to force, threats, coercion or deception to perform those services, irrespective of whether the customer knew or could have known about this ...
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Dividends aren't disappearing: evidence from the UK
... change it seems reasonable to examine whether the issue of taxation has been a major cause of this shift in dividend behaviour. Morgan and Thomas (1998) describe how historically dividends have always been taxed more ...
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Attitudes to moonlighting politicians: evidence from the UK
... Since becoming an MP he has become a non-executive director of a company who pay him £10,000 per year. He argues that this keeps him in touch with the world outside Westminster. Without that text, in our baseline survey ...
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The Reservation Wage Curve: Evidence from the UK
... Following the existing literature, control variables in 𝑿 𝑖𝑗𝑡 include: a quadratic term in the number of years of current labour market state; the natural logarithm of pay in previous/last job; the natural logarithm of ...
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The welfare effects of lotto: evidence from the UK
... Fig. 1. Relationship between sales and the expected return. and from below. In the R 5 0 case the shape is determined by the fact that the rollover probability falls as aggregate sales rise. For R . 0 this ...
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Gender in Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the UK
... Research limitations and future research Our study is subject to limitations which should be considered when interpreting the results. As any exploratory study based on qualitative data and analysis, the results and ...
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Entrepreneurial tendencies in franchising: : evidence from the UK
... the UK, the National Franchise ...generalisations from this study pertain to the sampling frame for the surveys and to the composition of respondents, which involved somewhat small sample ...the UK ...
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Measuring Taxes on Income from Capital: Evidence from the UK
... It is of course not surprising that some of these measures differ – after all they do not all attempt to measure the same thing. It is well known, for example, that a given tax regime may have high average rates but low ...
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Local Neighbourhood and Mental Health: Evidence from the UK
... This is approximately the nearest 500 people to the respondent’s home address 4 . We also define a larger neighbourhood – the nearest 2000 persons – which we use in some preliminary analyses. Having defined the bespoke ...
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Housing insecurity, homelessness and populism : evidence from the UK
... 4.3 Individual Insolvencies We begin by presenting the results on individual bankruptcies. Typically, mort- gage and rent arrears can not be included in common insolvency routines as they are classified as priority debt ...
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Smoking ban and life satisfaction: Evidence from the UK
... the UK resulted in any changes in cigarette consumption, and whether these changes impacted at all on hap- ...intake from 2005 to 2006 reported significantly less ...
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Are Cartel Laws Bad for Business? Evidence from the UK
... Free entry was a key element in the model of the previous section, so a crucial question is whether entry was restricted in cartelised industries. The evidence from the agreements registered under the 1956 ...
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Liquidity, momentum and price bubbles : evidence from the UK
... new evidence suggesting that liquidity risk provides momentum ...different from existing literature that mostly assumes linearity and constant beta ...the UK empirical literature by exploiting local ...
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Board monitoring and firm performance: evidence from the UK
... 16 Arora (2012) showed that there is a positive relationship between board size and firm performance if they used Tobin’s Q as measure of firm performance. Tobin’s Q is enhanced by having large board size, since the firm ...
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Risk Management Disclosure: Evidence from the UK Banks
... by UK banks. Tricker (2012) argues that UK corporations are increasingly realising the significance of risk management and risk reporting ...the UK to increase the levels of risk management ...
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The effects of supporting local business: evidence from the UK
... come from the Business Struc- ture Database ( ONS, 2019 ) which provides an annual snapshot of the Inter-Departmental Business Register ...the UK and includes each business’ name, post- code, and total ...
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Speed of Adjustment and Financial Constraints: Evidence from the UK
... Keywords: Speed of adjustment, financial constraints, UK firms, financial econometrics, and capital structure. 1. Introduction This paper empirically tests the speed of adjustment to target leverage levels. The ...
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Misreported schooling and returns to education: evidence from the UK
... far from being the norm in practical applications; this paper thus suggests a bounding approach and corresponding sensi- tivity analysis that while easy to implement can provide an often quite informative ...
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Labour Supply, Health and Caring - Evidence from the UK
... The problems listed above will lead to measurement error and/or endogeneity and will lead to bias in estimates of the impact of economic variables upon participation. To overcome these problems a number of authors have ...
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