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Academic specialisation and returns to education : Evidence from India
Saha, B.; Sensarma, R. (2011-11-01)We study returns to academic specialisation for Indian corporate sector workers by analysing cross-sectional data on male employees randomly selected from six large firms. Our analysis shows that going to college pays off, ... -
Access to water in the slums of sub-Saharan Africa
Dagdeviren, Hulya; Robertson, S.A. (2011)This article reviews the changing perspectives for improving access to water in the slums of developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. While much of the literature continues to maintain an aversion to state-led ... -
Access to Water in the Slums of the Developing World
Dagdeviren, Hulya; Robertson, Simon A. (International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009-06)The discussion reveals the failure of public policies as well as markets to provide satisfactory solutions to the problems of access to a safe, affordable and continuous water supply. In many countries, especially those ... -
Accounting for healthcare : Reform and outcomes
Haslam, Colin; Lehman, G. (2006-12-01) -
Accounting for hospices : Palliative care at risk
Theodosopoulos, Grigorios; Haslam, Colin (2010-03-30)This article is concerned with the provision of palliative care services in England by voluntary hospices. The literature on voluntary hospices is fragmented and scattered within and across academic and practitioner ... -
Accounting for Merger : The Case of HM Revenue and Customs
Shah, H.; Malik, Ali; Yaqub, M.Z. (2010)In 2004 the UK Central Government announced merger of its two main central tax departments, the Inland Revenue, and HM Customs & Excise. The two big departments had different historical origins and administrative structures. ... -
Accounting for reform : Funding and transformation in the four nation's hospital services
Haslam, Colin; Marriott, N. (2006-12-01)The NHS Plan revealed New Labour's objective to increase funding in the four nation's hospital services in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Although each country has installed its own institutional arrangements, ... -
Accounting for the financialized UK and US national business model
Andersson, Tord; Lee, Edward; Theodosopoulos, Grigorios; Yin, Ya Ping; Haslam, Colin (2014-02)The term ‘business model’ (BM) is generally used to describe the possibilities of transforming corporate activities and business functions (Osterwalder et al,2005 and Magretta,2002) In this paper we argue that our understanding ... -
Accumulation under conditions of inequality
Froud, J.; Johal, Sukhdev; Williams, Karel; Haslam, Colin (2001-03-01)This paper presents a Keynesian analysis of accumulation under conditions of inequality in the UK and USA where household savings are channelled into corporate securities. This form of saving is dominated by the comfortable ... -
Active Labour Market Programmes and Poverty Dynamics in Ireland
Halpin, Brendan; Hill, John (Combat Poverty Agency, 2008-08) -
Adaptation towards reference values : A non-linear perspective
Georgellis, Yannis; Gregorioua, Andros; Tsitsianis, N. (2008-09)Using large-scale panel data, we examine the dynamics of adjustment towards reference points for key workplace attributes. We discover that an Exponential Smooth Transition Autoregressive (ESTAR) model is superior to a ... -
The adoption of IFRS 3: the effects of managerial discretion and stock market reactions
Hamberg, Mattias; Paananen, Mari; Novak, Jiri (2011)In recent years, several accounting standards, including IFRS 3, issued by the IASB, substitute historical cost with fair value measures and so provide managers with increased discretion to determine fair value without an ... -
Agency, institutions, and Darwinism in evolutionary economic geography
Hodgson, G. (2009)The article by Danny MacKinnon, Andrew Cumbers, Andy Pike, Kean Birch, and Robert McMaster continues the dialogue on evolutionary ideas within economic geography. In response, I argue that the word “evolution” has a variety ... -
Agreeing on generalised Darwinism : A response to Pavel Pelikan
Hodgson, G.M.; Knudsen, T. (2012)Pelikan (J Evol Econ 21:341-366, 2011) develops an interesting conceptual framework that adds to prior work on generalised Darwinism. Despite claims to the contrary we show that it is similar to the approach developed by ... -
Alfred Marshall versus the Historical School
Hodgson, G.M. (2005)A false account of Marshall’s engagements with the historical school is found among modern commentators. This false account involves the central proposition that Marshall was an opponent of the historical school. This false ... -
Analysis of combined radial velocities and activity of BD+20 1790: : evidence supporting the existence of a planetary companion
Hernán-Obispo, M.; Tuomi, Mikko; Gálvez-Ortiz, M. C.; Golovin, A.; Barnes, J. R.; Jones, Hugh; Kane, S. R.; Pinfield, D.; Jenkins, J. S.; Petit, P.; Anglada-Escudé, G.; Marsden, S. C.; Catalán, S.; Jeffers, S. V.; Castro, E. de; Cornide, M.; Garcés, A.; Jones, M. I.; Gorlova, N.; Andreev, M. (2015-04-01)This paper presents the simultaneous Bayesian analysis of the radial velocity and activity indices for the K5Ve active star BD+20 1790, that was proposed to host a close-in massive planet by Hern\'an-Obispo et al. (2010). ... -
An Analysis of Islamic Banking in West : From Lagging to Leading
Malik, Ali; Malik, Shaukat; Shah, Haider (2011)The paper examines the unprecedented growth of Islamic banking and finance in the West with a focus on the United Kingdom. It captures the advancement of Islamic banking and finance in U.K over time It is observed that ... -
Andalucia : An emerging regional economy in Europe
Salmon, Keith (Junta de Andalucia, 1992) -
Asian Financial Integration: Global or Regional? : Evidence from Money and Bond Markets
Rughoo, Aarti; You, Kefei (2016-12-01)This paper investigates the degree of global versus regional financial integration in Southeast Asia during the period 2004-2012. We examine integration in the money and bond markets in Asia by employing a covered-intere ... -
Asymmetric effects of interest rate changes: the role of the consumption-wealth channel
MacDonald, Garry; Mullineux, Andy; Sensarma, Rudra (2011)This article examines the role of the consumption-wealth channel in explaining asymmetric effects of monetary policy changes. Towards this end, we draw upon available literature on the consumption function and behavioural ...