Discussion Papers in Public Sector Economics

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01/10: Offenders as Victims of Crime? An Investigation into the Relationship between Criminal Behaviour and Victimisation

Derek Deadman and Ziggy MacDonald

01/9: Are Foreign Firms More Technologically Intensive? UK Establishment Evidence From the ARD

Nigel Driffield and Karl Taylor

01/8: Comparing the First-Best and Second-Best Provision of a Club Good: An Example

Ali al-Nowaihi and Clive Fraser

01/7: The growth of Illicit Drugs Markets in the UK 1978-99

Stephen Pudney

01/6: What Price Drug Use? The Contribution of Economics to an Evidence-Based Drugs Policy

Ziggy MacDonald

01/5: Education, Earnings, and Fixed-Term Contracts

Sarah Brown and John Sessions

01/4: The Relative Contributions of Wage and Hours Constraints to Working Poverty in Britain

Sarah Brown, John Sessions and Duncan Watson

01/3: The Road to Ruin? Sequences of Initiation to Drug Use and Offending by Young People in Britain

Stephen Pudney

01/2: Racial Harassment, Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Quit: Evidence from the British Nursing Profession

Michael Shields and Stephen Wheatley Price

01/1: Forecasting Trends in Recorded Crime

Derek Deadman

00/8: Can Expected Utility Theory Explain Gambling?

Lisa Farrell and Roger Hartley

00/7: The Remuneration of British Academics

Rob Euwals and Melanie Ward

00/6: Forecasting Residential Burglary

Derek Deadman

00/5: Pay Differentials, Discrimination and Worker Grievances

Stephen Pudney

00/4: Wages, Supervision and Sharing

Sarah Brown, Fathi Fakhfakh and John Sessions

00/3: Improving Nurse Retention in the British National Health Service: The Impact of Job Satisfaction on Intentions to Quit

Michael Shields and Melanie E. Ward

00/2: The Effects of Sectoral and Technological Changes on the Skill Composition of Employment in the United Kingdom 1951-91

Martin Hoskins

00/1: Crime and Punishment: On the Optimality of Imprisonment although Fines are Feasible

Ingolf Dittmann

99/6: The Wages of Sin? Illegal Drug Use and the Labour Market

Ziggy MacDonald and Stephen Pudney

99/5: Applying Heterogeneous Transition Models in Labour Economics: The Role of Youth Training in labour Market transitions

Fabrizia Mealli and Stephen Pudney

99/4: The English Language Fluency and Occupational Success of Ethnic Minority Immigrant Men Living in English Metropolitan Areas

Michael Shields and Stephen Wheatley Price

99/3: On the Impact of Anti-Discrimination Legislation

Stephen Pudney

99/2: Cointegration, Causality and Wagner's Law: A test for Northern Cyprus, 1977-1996

Peter Jackson, Meryem Duygun Fethi and Sami Fethi

99/1: Unhappiness and Involuntary Unemployment: The Case of Ethnic Minority Men in Britain

Michael Shields and Allan Wailoo

98/11: Analysing Drug Abuse with British Crime Survey Data: Modelling and Questionnaire Design Issues

Ziggy MacDonald and Stephen Pudney

98/10: The Unemployment Experience of Male Immigrants in England

Stephen Wheatley Price

98/9: The Employment Adjustment of Male Immigrants in England

Stephen Wheatley Price

98/8: The Impact of Alcohol Use on Occupational Attainment and Wages

Ziggy MacDonald and Michael Shields

98/6: The Under-Reporting of Property Crime: A Microeconometric Analysis

Ziggy MacDonald

98/5: A State-Centred Public Choice Approach for a Semi-Democratic Country: Rent-Seeking Interest Groups in Turkish Trade Policy

Dilek Demirbas

98/4: What Should be the Role of the State in the 21st Century in the LDCs from the Alternative Public Choice Perspective that Starts from Schumpeter? Realistic Public Choice Approach

Dilek Demirbas and Peter Jackson

98/3: Econometric Issues in the Analysis of Linked Cross-Section Employer-Worker Surveys

Andrew Hildreth and Stephen Pudney

98/2: Illicit Drug Use and labour Market Achievement: Evidence from the UK

Ziggy MacDonald and Stephen Pudney

98/1: Can Welfare States Compete in a Global Economy?

Anthony Atkinson

97/6: Ethnic Differences in the Incidence of Employer-Funded Training for Male Employees in Britain

Michael Shields and Stephen Wheatley Price

97/5: The Demand for Illicit Drugs in the UK: Survey Evidence

Ziggy MacDonald

97/4: Gender, Race, Pay and Promotion in the British Nursing Profession: Estimation of a Generalised Ordered Probit Model

Stephen Pudney and Michael Shields

97/3: The Effect of Under-Reporting in Statistical Models of Criminal Activity: Estimation of an Error Correction Model with Measurement Error

Stephen Pudney, Derek Deadman and David Pyle

97/2: Revisiting The Club: Second-best Provision of Congestible and Excludable Goods

Clive Fraser and Abraham Hollander

97/1: On Some Statistical Methods for Modelling the Incidence of Poverty

Stephen Pudney

96/9: Safety in Numbers

Clive Fraser

96/8: Training, Technology, Employment and Wage Differentials

Martin Hoskins

96/7: Economic Aspects of Defamation Law and the Media

Ian Bradley

96/6: Pricing Water Properly

Paul Herrington

96/5: Training and Poaching

Martin Hoskins

96/4: On Tort as an Implicit Insurance System with State-Dependent Utility. The Case of Child Mortality Risk

Clive Fraser

96/3: Budgetary Deficits and Ricardian Equivalence: The Case of India, 1950-1986

Anita Ghatak and Subrata Ghatak

96/2: Political Business Cycles: A Literature Survey

D. Garratt and Peter Jackson

96/1: Politico-Macroeconomics

Dean Garratt

95/7: Payment into English Courts and Offers to Settle - An Assessment of the Current System and Proposed Rule Changes

Ian Bradley

95/6: Forecasting Recorded Property Crime Using a Time-Series Econometric Model

Derek Deadman and David Pyle

95/5: Whatever Happened to the ?Laffer Curve??

D.J. Pyle

95/4: An Analysis of the Government?s Strategy Concerning the Staff Cutbacks in the Turkish Civil Service: Cutback or Restraint?

Ugue Ömürgönülsen

95/3: The Effect of Health Insurance on Health Care Utilization

Hyehoon Lee

95/2: On the Use of Algorithms for Optimal Targeting of Income Transfers

Stephen Pudney

95/1: Competition in the British Domestic Gas Market: Efficiency and Equity

Ruth Hanncock and Catherine Waddams Price