scholarly journals Minimum Wages and the Gender GAP in Pay: New Evidence from the United Kingdom and Ireland

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 514-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Bargain ◽  
Karina Doorley ◽  
Philippe Van Kerm
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Evidence

scholarly journals House-edge information yields lower subjective chances of winning than equivalent return-to-player percentages: New evidence from support forum participants

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip W.S. Newall ◽  
Lukasz Walasek ◽  
Elliot A. Ludvig ◽  
Matthew J. Rockloff
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Average Cost ◽  
Edge Information ◽  
Average Percentage ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Evidence

Information messages that communicate the average cost of play are a helpful consumer protection tool in gambling. In Australia and the United Kingdom, cost of play information is typically communicated via the “return-to-player” statistic, e.g., “This game has an average percentage payout of 90%.” Through a sample recruited through a gambling support forum (n = 49), this paper reports how house-edge information (e.g., “This game keeps 10% of all money bet on average”) is associated with lower perceived chances of winning, as opposed to equivalent return-to-player information. Accordingly, this study also extends the literature on optimal gambling messaging to a group of support forum users.RésuméLes messages destinés à renseigner les joueurs sur le coût moyen des activités de jeux de hasard constituent une mesure de protection du consommateur utile. En Australie et au Royaume-Uni, cette information est habituellement transmise sous forme de statistique précisant le « taux de retour », par exemple : « Ce jeu a un taux de retour de 90 %. » Cette étude montre, sur la base d’un échantillon recruté au sein d’un forum de soutien aux joueurs (n=49), que les messages axés sur la marge de profit des maisons de jeu (par ex. « La maison conserve en moyenne 10 % des sommes misées  ») ont une incidence négative sur la perception des chances de gagner, contrairement aux messages sur le taux de retour. Nos conclusions ajoutent aux connaissances sur la nature des messages à adresser aux membres des groupes de soutien aux joueurs.

Scholarship of Practice: Making Occupation-Focused, Theory-Driven, Evidence-Based Practice a Reality

2005 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 260-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsty Forsyth ◽  
Lynn Summerfield Mann ◽  
Gary Kielhofner
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Outcomes Research ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Practice Knowledge ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Practice Framework ◽  
New Evidence

National and local policies require the profession to provide evidence on which practice is based. This paper illustrates an approach to meeting the expectations of these policies. Specifically, it describes the development of the United Kingdom Centre for Outcomes Research and Education (UKCORE). UKCORE was developed within a ‘scholarship of practice’ framework, which supports the development of robust partnerships between academia and practice whereby academic knowledge influences practice and practice knowledge influences academia. Within the partnership, all academic participants (educators, researchers and students) and practice participants (clinicians, clients and administrators) are called ‘practice scholars’ and are focused on practice scholarship. UKCORE was founded in London in 2001 in order to support the delivery of existing evidence into occupational therapy practice while simultaneously supporting practice to engage in generating new evidence for occupational therapy practice. This article provides an overview of the academic and practice changes that have been put into place. The changes are designed to support the development of practice that is occupation focused, theory driven and evidence based.

scholarly journals The Effects of Minimum Wages on Wage Dispersion and Employment: Evidence from the U.K. Wages Councils

ILR Review ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Machin ◽  
Alan Manning
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
Average Wage ◽  
Wage Dispersion ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Dramatic Decline ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect

Using data on Wages Council coverage from the United Kingdom New Earnings Survey, the authors examine the impact of mandated minimum wages on wage dispersion and employment in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. They find evidence that a dramatic decline in the toughness of the regulation imposed by the Wages Councils through the 1980s—a decline, that is, in the level of the minimum wage relative to the average wage—significantly contributed to widening wage dispersion over those years. There is, however, no evidence of an increase in employment resulting from the weakening bite of the Wages Council minimum pay rates. Instead, consistent with the conclusions of several recent U.S. studies, the findings suggest that the minimum wage had either no effect or a positive effect on employment.

scholarly journals The gender imbalance in academic medicine: a study of female authorship in the United Kingdom

2009 ◽  
Vol 102 (8) ◽  
pp. 337-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reena Sidhu ◽  
Praveen Rajashekhar ◽  
Victoria L Lavin ◽  
Joanne Parry ◽  
James Attwood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
British Journal ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Publication Rates ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Engineering And Technology ◽  
Female Authorship ◽  
And Gender

Summary Objectives A shortfall exists of female doctors in senior academic posts in the United Kingdom. Career progression depends on measures of esteem, including publication in prestigious journals. This study investigates gender differences in first and senior authorship in six peer-reviewed British journals and factors that are associated with publication rates. Design and main outcome measures Data was collected on United Kingdom first and senior authors who had published in the British Medical Journal, Lancet, British Journal of Surgery, Gut, British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the Archives of Diseases in Childhood. Authorship and gender were quantified for 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2004 ( n=6457). In addition, selected questions from the Athena Survey of Science Engineering and Technology (ASSET2006), web-based doctor's self-report of publications were also analysed ( n=1162). Results Female first authors increased from 10.5% in 1970 to 36.5% in 2004 (p<0.001) while female senior authors only increased from 12.3% to 16.5% (p=0.046). Within individual journals, the largest rise was in British Journal of Obstetric and Gynaecology with 4.5- and 3-fold increases for first and senior authors, respectively. In contrast, female senior authors marginally declined in Gut and Lancet by 2.8% and 2.2%, respectively. ASSET2006 identified that female respondents who were parents were less likely to have publications as sole (p=0.02) and joint authors (p<0.001) compared to male respondents. Female respondents with care responsibilities for parents/partner also had less publications as lead authors compared to those without carer responsibilities (p<0.001). Conclusion The increase in UK female first authors is encouraging. In contrast, there is considerable lag and in some specialties a decline in female senior authors. Factors that could narrow the gender gap in authorship should be sought and addressed.

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