Working papers

In this paper we model the evolution ofincome risk and consumption growth

The paper examines social security (public pension) reforms in which the programme is partially shifted from a public unfunded basis to a private, prefunded, basis.

This paper analyses retirement expectations and outcomes using the two waves of the UK Retirement Survey, undertaken in 1988-89 and 1994.

The paper estimates the returns to education for a cohort of individuals born in

This paper investigates the relationship between export market shares and relative unit labour

This paper uses revealed preference restrictions and nonparametric statistical methods to bound a quality-constant price series for a good that

This paper uses revealed preference restrictions and nonparametric statistical methods to bound true cost-of-living indices.

This paper examines alternative approaches to wage subsidy programmes.

Many sectors of the UK economy experienced rapid productivity growth over the 1980's. This coincided with an increase in the flow of inward investment.

This paper tests for the importance of cash flow on investment in fixed capital and R&D using firm-level panel data in two countries between 1985 and 1994.

The demand for certain types of health care services depends on decisions of both the individual and the health care provider.

This paper considers the relationship between two general neutral business tax structures, which we label the firm tax and the shareholder tax.

We consider the estimation of Cobb-Douglas production functions using panel data covering a large sample of companies observed for a small number of time periods.

This paper develops and estimates a human capital model of wage growth based on learning by doing.

In this paper we examine the panel data estimation of dynamic models for count data that include correlated fixed effects and predetermined variables.

This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by examining the micro-econometric evidence.

This paper make straightforward extensions to Anderson's (1996) nonparametric