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Poor and Sick : Estimating the relationship between Household Income and Health
(University of Aberdeen, 2010-02)This study evaluates the effect of the individual‘s household income on their health at the later stages of working life. A structural equation model is utilised in order to derive a composite and continuous index of the ... -
Health inequalities in England, Scotland and Wales : stakeholders' accounts and policy compared
(Elsevier, 2009-01)Objectives The election of a Labour government in 1997 brought the issue of health inequalities firmly back on to the policy agenda across the UK. Since then, in the wake of devolution, the need to tackle health inequalities ... -
Household costs of healthcare during pregnancy, delivery, and the postpartum period : a case study from Matlab, Bangladesh
(ICDDR,B, 2006-12)A household survey was undertaken in Matlab, a rural area of Bangladesh, to estimate the costs incurred during pregnancy, delivery, and the postpartum period for women delivering at home and in a health facility. Those ... -
Pay Comparisons: An Analysis of UK University Vice Chancellors Pay Awards
(2007-04-12)This paper examines UK University Vice Chancellors (VC) pay awards. The empirical analysis, covering the period 1997 to 2002, evaluates the impact upon VC pay awards of university performance measures, an internal pay ... -
The Subtour Centre Problem
(2007-03-20)The subtour centre problem is the problem of finding a closed trail S of bounded length on a connected simple graph G that minimises the maximum distance from S to any vertex ofG. It is a central location problem related ... -
Insertion Heuristics for Central Cycle Problems
(2006)A central cycle problem requires a cycle that is reasonably short and keeps a the maximum distance from any node not on the cycle to its nearest node on the cycle reasonably low. The objective may be to minimise ... -
Is it Easier to Escape from Low Pay in Urban Areas? Evidence from the UK
(University of Aberdeen Business School, 2004-08)In this paper we compare periods of low pay employment between urban and rural areas in the UK. Using the British Household Panel Survey, we estimate the probability that a period of low pay employment will end allowing ...