Working papers

This paper uses microeconomic data from the UK Family Expenditure Surveys (FES) and the General Household Surveys (GHS) to describe and explain changes in the distribution of male wages.

We investigate the finite sample performance of a Lagrange Multiplier specification test for competing-risks duration models developed by Pudney and Thomas (1995).

For small group sizes, the Generalised Least Squares (CLS) estimator in multilevel models is biased and inconsistent when the random cluster effects are correlated with the regressors.

In this paper we show how estimates of aggregate spending in the UK would be affected by using grossing weights that take account of the known dimensions of non-representativeness of the Family Expenditure Survey.

The life-cycle hypothesis predicts that the cross-sectional variance of the marginal utility of consumption is equal to its own lag plus a constant and a random component.

This paper uses the General Household Survey data for the UK to study earnings

This paper examines the role of international tax evasion for the choice of an optimal foreign tax credit by a capital exporting region

It is well known that over the next few decades there will be significant changes in the demographic structures of nearly all developed countries; in the absence of massive immigration, or of catastrophic new fatal illnesses, by the middle of the next century the ratio of people of working age to those of retirement age will, in many countries, be only around one half the current level.

This paper investigates whether tax competition can survive under tax coordination, when information is private or nonverifiable.

This paper concerns the relationship between refuse collection contract costs and the number of bidders for a sample of English local authorities.

This paper investigates whether the impact of financing constraints on company investment spending differs between firms in Belgium, France, Germany and the UK.

Economists have frequently argued that cash transfers are to be preferred to in-kind transfers.

This research is concerned with the demand for lottery tickets and uses data for the UK National Lottery that records the behaviour, incomes and characteristics of almost 10,000 individuals.

This research (supported by the Leverhulme Trust) investigates the relationship between working behaviour (whether one is unemployed, not participating, working part-time or full-time), cash transfer programmes (such as in-work transfers like Family Credit, and out-of-work transfers like Income Support), and in-kind transfer programmes.

This research, supported by the Leverhulme Trust, investigates the relationship between the employment status of husbands and the labour market behaviour of their wives.

Methods of testing econometrically for horizontal inequity (HI) induced by tax systems are examined.

Part-time work whilst still in full-time education is common in many industrialized countries, and teenagers constitute a significant component of the work force in some sectors of the labour market.

A common feature of federal systems is that tax bases are joint property.

This paper applies revealed preference theory to the nonparametric statistical analysis of consumer demand.

This paper places the debate over using consumption or income in studies of inequality growth in a formal intertemporal setting.