Using nationally representative workplace surveys we examine the relationship between unionization and workplace financial performance in Britain and France. We find that union bargaining is detrimental to workplace performance in Britain and that this effect is larger when unionization is endogenized. In France, union bargaining is associated with poorer workplace performance but the effect di...

Harper, P. S. (1975). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 50, 505. Congenital myotonic dystrophy in Britain. I. Clinical aspects. A clinical and genetic study of congenital myotonic dystrophy in Britain has been carried out in 70 patients from 54 sibships. The clinical aspects are analysed here, and the existence of a syndrome clinically distinct from myotonic dystrophy of later onset is confirme...

Research over the last two decades has revealed a rich record of Lower Palaeolithic occupation in Britain prior to 450,000 yrs. Acheulean industries (Mode II) first appear in the later part of the early Middle Pleistocene (EMP, MIS 19-13). This paper reviews: 1) the age of the earliest Acheulean in Britain, 2) the climates under which the earliest Acheulean industries occur, as recorded by the ...

Previous studies have found that intergenerational income persistence is relatively high in the United States and Britain, especially as compared to Nordic countries. We compare the association between family income and sons’ earnings in the United States (National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979), Britain (British Cohort Study 1970), and Sweden (Population Register Data, 1965 cohort), and fin...

∗General Directorate of Central Banking Operations, Bank of Mexico Avenida 5 de Mayo No.6, Colonia Centro, Delegacion Cuauhtemoc, 06059 Distrito Federal, Mexico City, Mexico E-mail: [email protected] ∗∗Department of Computer Science, University of Essex Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, Great Britain, E-mail: [email protected] ∗∗∗School of Management, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7A...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To describe inequalities in all cause premature mortality between and within regions of Great Britain and how these inequalities have changed between 1979 and 1998. DESIGN Retrospective study using routine population and death data aggregated into five year age and sex groups for each of 20 years. SETTING All 459 local authority districts (England and Wales) and local govern...

After years of collective indecision, Britain shifted to become a full participant in an increasingly networked world; supporting the diffusion of the Internet, broadband access, and its use for an increasingly wide range of activities. This paper compares Britain with other European nations and the wider world in its adoption and use of the Internet. It draws from the Oxford Internet Surveys (...

The Thoroughbred has been intensely selected for speed and performance since its development over 300 years ago. The concept of shuttle stallions was introduced in 1990 in order to introduce novel bloodlines in Australia and maintain genetic diversity in the Thoroughbred population. However Thoroughbred racing varies in different racing regions with Australia requiring faster and more precociou...

This paper provides the first full account of intergenerational mobility in Britain using the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) for the period 1991-1999. The estimates obtained from a sample of all adults who provide information on their parents’ occupation when they were aged 14 point to an intergenerational elasticity – measured in terms of Hope-Goldthorpe scores of occupational prestige ...

BACKGROUND Many low- and middle-income countries have high levels of violence. Research in high-income countries shows that risk factors in the perinatal period are significant precursors of conduct problems which can develop into violence. It is not known whether the same early influences are important in lower income settings with higher rates of violence. This study compared perinatal and so...