Notes that, in the UK, there has been little empirical research undertaken to consider the effect of the commercial property tax (more commonly known as non-domestic rates) on the level of openly negotiated market rents. ...
Recent media attention has focused on the low ranking of Ireland in a major international study on literacy. In this paper we examine the dataset used in these studies to consider the reason behind the low ranking. We find ...
The impact of internal and external variables on firm-level wages is examined using data for 436 UK firms over the period 1976-1986. The evidence indicates that both matter, as firm-level profit per employee and industrial ...
The national non-domestic rate was introduced in 1990 to replace a system of locally varying business rates which had lasted for almost four centuries. Five years after the 1990 reforms, this report evaluates the operation ...
This paper uses panel data on british manufacturing industries between 1973 and 1985 to examine the relationship between productivity and labour organization. It is shown that the relationship between unions and productivity ...
This paper is concerned with the impact of unions on the investment rate in British industry. On the basis of an analysis of some 72 industries in the manufacturing sector, we find that, ceteris paribus, firms that recognize ...