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Autor:
Derek Leslie
Publikováno v:
Applied Economics. 37:619-632
People from the UK's minority ethnic communities achieve less good degree results than whites. The paper explores some reasons for this under-performance. By analysing a large sample of around two million observations a measure of the quality of qual
Autor:
Derek Leslie
Publikováno v:
American Economic Review. 95(1):407-413
Researchers perpetually complain about long decision lags. Glenn Ellison (2002a,b) confirms that delays are being longer. He suggests an evolving social norm as a possible explanation, with more demands made on authors for their work to be published.
Autor:
Derek Leslie, Andrew James Abbott
Publikováno v:
Education Economics. 12:67-86
Using a data‐set published by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, patterns of demand and supply for higher education courses from 1996/97 to 1999/2000 are analysed. Most universities saw a fall in applications and enrolments following
Autor:
Joanne Lindley, Derek Leslie
Publikováno v:
Economica. 68:587-606
The Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities contains useful information about the language ability of Britain's non–whites as well as a wealth of comparative information for whites. The paper attempts to establish how much of the lower unemploy
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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society. 164:371-387
Summary The declining employment fortunes of Britain’s non-white communities, relative to whites, are explained. To achieve this comparison, some historical official sources of unemployment data are reviewed. The earliest known official time series
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The Manchester School. 67:1-20
Using a sample of over 100,000 males from the Labour Force Survey, we explore the employment prospects of different ethnic groups. There are significant differences across groups so that discrimination studies which consider ethnic minorities as one
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Scopus-Elsevier
Using individual data from the 1991 Census and the Labour Force Survey, this article investigates earnings and unemployment disadvantages among Britain's ethnic minorities for males and females. The key point is to distinguish those born in Britain f
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Oxford Economic Papers. 49:256-272
This paper analyzes the major developments in the structure of male and female pay in Britain between 1973 and 1991. These are the narrowing of the gender pay gap and the increasing inequality of male and female earnings. The first innovation is deco
Autor:
Derek Leslie, Yonghao Pu
Publikováno v:
British Journal of Industrial Relations. 34:111-130
The paper reviews some of the competing explanations for the rising levels of earnings inequality in Britain, such as skill shortages, rising unemployment, globalization, demographic factors and inflation. These explanations are rejected in favour of
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Labour. 9:507-523
Previous studies of time-series data suggest that the rate of unemployment is best described as a driftless random walk. This is a far from trivial point because the policy implications of an alternative stationary series can be very different. On th