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(Economic and Social Research Institute, 2002)We use rich brand level retail data to demonstrate that the firm size distribution in Carbonated Soft Drinks is mainly an outcome of the degree to which firms own a portfolio of brands across segments of the market, and ...
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(Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2002-08)Using brand level retail data, the firm size distribution in Carbonated Soft Drinks is shown to be an outcome of the degree to which firms have placed brands effectively (store coverage) across vertical (flavour, packaging, ...
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(Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the Royal Statistical Society, 2002)This paper analyses levels of low literacy across 12 countries by using the International Adult Literacy Survey. We go beyond existing work that only looks at the proportions below certain critical levels of literacy. Using ...
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(Blackwell, 2002)Many economics theories suggest that the assignment of workers to occupations changes over the business cycle: expansions allow workers to upgrade to occupations that pay higher wages and require more skill. This paper ...
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(Irish Economic Association, Dublin Economic Workshop, 2002-10)Who pays for future pension liabilities? In countries that have extensive private pension systems such as the US, UK and Ireland, the private sector largely takes care of itself through either occupational or personal ...
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(Blackwell, 2002)We provide a detailed statistical investigation into the economic and demographic factors that determine sporting participation in England. Using data from the 1997 health survey of England we fit random-effects probit ...
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(American Economic Association, 2002-06)We investigate the ability of expected utility theory to account for simultaneous gambling and insurance. Contrary to a previous claim that borrowing and lending in perfect capital markets removes the demand for gambles, ...
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(University of Melbourne. Department of Economics, 2002-04)We consider three broad types of employment contract vis, self-employment, PRP, and fixed wage employment. We focus on the implied degree of income risk associated with each type of employment contract, arguing that such ...
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(Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2002-02)This Paper examines cross-country variations in the return to schooling for men and women and considers some of the stylised facts that have emerged from the extensive international literature on private returns to schooling. ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002)