Reviews: Service Industries in the World Economy, Success and Failure in Housing Provision: European Systems Compared, Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Work in Contemporary Britain, Small Firms and Local Economic Networks: The Death of the Local Economy?, Local Government in the United Kingdom, Critical Perspectives in Rural Change Series. Volume VI. Gender and Rurality, the New Political Geography of Eastern Europe, the Slow Plague: A Geography of the AIDS Pandemic

1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 935-950
Author(s):  
T A Hutton ◽  
J Kemeny ◽  
P Moss ◽  
A Tickell ◽  
R J Bennett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Economic Networks ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Rural Change ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Aids Pandemic

Social housing provision for minority ethnic older people with dementia: Findings from a qualitative study

Dementia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 750-765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Lipman ◽  
Gillian Manthorpe
Keyword(s):  
Housing Provision ◽  
Housing Associations ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Housing Services ◽  
Audit Approach ◽  
The Cost

Little research has explored how not-for-profit housing providers, often termed Housing Associations in the United Kingdom, meet the needs of older tenants with dementia who are from black and ethnic minority communities. This article presents findings from an exploratory study conducted in 2015. The study took an audit approach, investigating current practice and policy in 12 Housing Associations. All were developing their understanding of dementia; some were augmenting their standard rented property portfolio to include housing with care provision; and most had policies relating to equalities and diversity and were offering dementia training to members of staff. None appeared to have fully integrated the three strands of housing services, dementia care, and cultural or ethnicity-related needs and preferences. A range of strategies was reported as being developed to meet tenants’ changing circumstances. Anxiety about the cost of adaptations was commonly reported, although the nature and extent of this were ill-defined. Discussion focuses on the findings’ implications for housing providers and for dementia professionals.

scholarly journals The Effect of Product Demand on Inequality: Evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Leonardi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The United States ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Metropolitan Statistical Area ◽  
Consumer Expenditure ◽  
Product Demand ◽  
Elasticity Of Demand ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Employment Share

Using Consumer Expenditure Survey data this paper shows that more educated workers demand more high-skill-intensive services and, to a lesser extent, more very low-skill-intensive services (such as personal services). Additional evidence at the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) level shows that this “education elasticity of demand” mechanism can explain part of the correlation between the share of college-educated workers in a city and the employment share of service industries. The parametrization of a simple model suggests that this induced demand shift can explain around 6.5 percent of the relative demand shift in the United States between 1984 and 2002. Similar results are provided for the United Kingdom. (JEL D12, J24, J31, L84)

Chapter II. The World Economy

1991 ◽  
Vol 137 ◽  
pp. 24-44
Author(s):  
Andrew Gurney ◽  
Ray Barrell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
World Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World

In the course of the last 2 years economic performance in the major 7 economies has become less synchronised. In 1988 GNP grew by more than 3.5 per cent in all seven economies, with growth rates either at or close to cyclical highs. However for 1991 we expect negative GNP growth for Canada and the United Kingdom, negligible growth in the United States, growth of around 1.5 per cent in France and Italy, and of over 3 per cent in Germany and Japan. Table 1 shows that GNP growth in the major 7 economies is expected to slow to 1.2 per cent in 1991. Chart 1 highlights the different responses among the major 4 economies.

Chapter II. The World Economy

1974 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 46-64
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
Balance Of Payments ◽  
West Germany ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Policy Objectives

We remarked in our last issue : ‘It is not often that a government finds itself confronted with the possibility of a simultaneous failure to achieve all four main policy objectives—of adequate economic growth, full employment, a satisfactory balance of payments and reasonably stable prices.’ In the context this applied specifically to the United Kingdom, but the possibility is becoming increasingly real for the greater part of Western Europe, with West Germany the most obvious exception, and even for Japan it is less remote than it might quite recently have seemed.

Cross-Cutting Themes in Major Article IV Consultations

Policy Papers ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 09 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Euro Area ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
World Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Cross Country

This paper is part of a broader on-going effort to bring a more cross-country perspective to bilateral surveillance, taking advantage of a cluster of Article IV consultations with five systemically important economies concluded in July. With the five economies—the United States, the Euro area, China, Japan, and the United Kingdom—accounting for two-thirds of global output and three quarters of capital flows, the nature of linkages and consistency of policy responses across the systemic five (S5) has important implications for the world economy.

Venturing into Foreign Markets: The Case of the Small Service Firm

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Krishna Erramilli ◽  
Derrick E. D'Souza
Keyword(s):  
Direct Investment ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Firm Behavior ◽  
Capital Intensity ◽  
Foreign Market ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Foreign Market Entry ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
Entry Behavior

The study contrasts foreign market entry behavior of small and large service firms. The sample consisted of 141 firms of which 54 were small firms and 87 were larger firms. The study provides empirical evidence that the behavior of small firms differs from that of larger firms mainly in service industries characterized by higher capital intensity. It also suggests that at lower levels of capital intensity, small firm behavior may resemble that of larger firms. More specifically, In industries characterized by lower levels of capital Intensity, small service firms are as likely as their larger counterparts to enter culturally distant markets and to choose foreign direct Investment (FDI) modes of entry. But, at higher levels of capital Intensity, small service forms are less likely than larger ones to enter culturally distant markets, and to choose FDI modes of entry.

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