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284: The incentive effects of means tested UK retirement benefits -- has the Pension Credit gone too far?

Dr Justin van de Ven

283: Means Testing Retirement Benefits: fostering equity or discouraging savings?

Dr Justin van de Ven and Dr Martin Weale

282: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Annuity Rates in the Presence of Aggregate Mortality Risk

Dr Martin Weale and Dr Justin van de Ven

281: Do ICT Skill Shortages Hamper Firms Performance?

John Forth

280: Employability Skills Initiatives in Higher Education: What Effects Do They Have on Graduate Labour Market Outcomes?

Geoff Mason, Gareth Williams and Sue Cranmer

279: Fiscal Implications of Demographic Uncertainty: Comparisons across the European Union

Dr Martin Weale

278: A Comparison of National Saving Rates in the UK, US and Italy

Tatiana Kirsanova

277: The Distributional Effects of Taxation in Australia and the United Kingdom: Evidence from Microsimulations

Dr Justin van de Ven

276: Simulating Cohort Earnings for Australia

Dr Justin van de Ven

275: Entry rates and the risks of misalignment in the EU8

Dr Tatiana Fic, Ray Barrell and Dawn Holland

274: The Returns to General versus Job-Specific Skills: the Role of Information and Communication Technology

Rebecca Riley and Simon Kirby

273: Equality and Efficiency: Policy for Globalisation

Dr Martin Weale

272: Financial Crisis, Effective Policy Rules and Bounded Rationality in a New Keynesian Framework

Ali Al-Eyd

271: The role of financial markets' openness in the transmission of shocks in Europe

Ray Barrell and Dawn Holland

270: Incidence-based Estimates of Healthy Life Expectancy for the United Kingdom: Coherence between Transition Probabilities and Aggregate Life Tables

Ehsan Khoman and Martin Weale

269: The Impacts of Capital Adequacy Requirements on Emerging Markets

Ray Barrell

268: Welfare or Farewell? Mental health and stress in the workplace

Dr Heather Rolfe

267: The Impact of Changing Demographics and Pensions on The Demand for Housing and Financial Assets

Lubo Schmidt

266: Uncertainty in UK manufacturing: evidence from qualitative survey data

Dr Martin Weale and James Mitchell

265: The Effects of Means-Testing Pensions on Savings and Retirement

Dr Martin Weale and Dr Justin van de Ven

264: Developing new approaches to measuring NHS outputs and productivity

Mary O'Mahony and Lucy Stokes

263: Poverty and Debt

Dr Martin Weale and James Mitchell

262: The job satisfaction of English academics and their intentions to quit academe

Philip Stevens

260: Survey Expectations

Dr Martin Weale

259: The Provision of Library Services by English Local Authorities

Philip Stevens

258: Two recent (2003) international surveys of schooling at attainments: England's problem

Sig Prais

257: The Productivity impact of E-Commerce in the UK, 2001: Evidence from microdata

Ana Rincon-Aznar, Dr Catherine Robinson and Michela Vecchi

256: Does Labour Productivity Flow Across Industries?: Estimation Robust to Panel Heterogeneity and Cross Sectional Correlation

Michela Vecchi

255: Taxation and Redistribution in Australia and the UK - Evidence from Microsimulation Analyses

Dr Justin van de Ven

253: Evaluating, comparing and combining density forecasts using the KLIC with an application to the Bank of England and NIESR ÔfanÕ charts of inflation

Dr. James Mitchell

252: Means Testing and Retirement Choices in Europe: A Comparison of the British and Danish Systems

Dr Justin van de Ven

251: Forecasting manufacturing output growth using firm-level survey data

Dr Martin Weale and Dr. James Mitchell

250: Fiscal implications of demographic uncertainty for the UK

Dr Martin Weale

249: Density Forecast Combination

Dr. James Mitchell

248: Optimal combination of density forecasts

James Mitchell

247: Financial Liberalisation, Consumption and Wealth Effects in 7 OECD Countries

Ray Barrell and Professor E. Philip Davis

246: National Saving and the Stability and Growth Pact

Dr Martin Weale

245: The dynamic impact of ICT spillovers on companies' productivity performance

Ana Rincon-Aznar and Dr Michela Vecchi

244: Does Means Testing Exacerbate Early Retirement?

Justin van de Ven

243: Costs of Financial Instability, Household-Sector Balance Sheets and Consumption

Ray Barrell and Professor E. Philip Davis

242: Oil Prices and the World Economy

Ray Barrell

241: Testing the Pooling Assumption in an Industry Panel of R&D Investment: What Do We Learn?

Bettina Becker

240: Skill Shortages and Firms' Employment Behaviour

Philip Stevens

239: Accounting for Background Variables in Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Philip Stevens

238: Is there a trade-off between inflation variability and output-gap variability in the EMU countries?

Philip Arestis

237: International Production Relocation and Exports of Services

Nigel Pain

236: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Skill Gaps and Company-Level Performance: Evidence fr

John Forth

235: The Impact of High-Level Skill Shortages on Firm-Level Performance: Evidence from the UK Technical Graduate Labour Market

John Forth

234: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Adoption and Utilisation, Skill Constraints and Firm

John Forth

233: Lazy Students? A Study of Student Time Use

Dr Martin Weale