A comparison of EQ-5D time trade-off values obtained in Germany, The United Kingdom and Spain

2017 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 162-184 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tom McKenzie ◽

Alasdair C Rutherford

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Career Paths ◽

Empirical Investigation ◽

Shared Values ◽

Career Concerns ◽

Trade Off ◽

Employee Recruitment ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Matched Data ◽

The Relationship

We study the relationship between career concerns and shared values empirically using employee–employer matched data for the United Kingdom and overtime hours as a proxy for hard work. In line with standard career-concerns theory, we find that employees work less overtime the longer they have been with their current employer. We also find that employees who agree strongly with the statement ‘I share many of the values of my organisation’ do roughly 20% more overtime than the rest. Our results suggest the existence of a trade-off between career concerns and shared values. We begin to consider some potential implications of this for employee recruitment as well as for the design of career paths across the private, public and voluntary sectors.

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Combating In-Work Poverty in Continental Europe: An Investigation Using the Belgian Case

Journal of Social Policy ◽

10.1017/s0047279411000341 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 19-41 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

IVE MARX ◽

JOSEFINE VANHILLE ◽

GERLINDE VERBIST

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

United Kingdom ◽

Social Security ◽

Policy Issue ◽

The United States ◽

Policy Options ◽

Anglo Saxon ◽

Trade Off ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Tax Relief

AbstractRecent studies find in-work poverty to be a pan-European phenomenon. Yet in-work poverty has come to the fore as a policy issue only recently in most continental European countries. Policies implemented in the United States and the United Kingdom, most notably in-work benefit schemes, are much discussed. This article argues that if it comes to preventing and alleviating poverty among workers, both the policy options and constraints facing Continental European policymakers are fundamentally different from those facing Anglo-Saxon policymakers. Consequently, policies that work in one setting cannot be simply emulated elsewhere. We present microsimulation derived results for Belgium to illustrate some of these points. Policy options discussed and simulated include: higher minimum wages, reductions in employee social security contributions, tax relief for low-paid workers and the implementation of a stylised version of the British Working Tax Credit. The latter measure has the strongest impact on in-work poverty, but in settings where wages are compressed, as in Belgium, a severe trade-off between coverage and budgetary cost presents itself. The article concludes that looking beyond targeted measures to universal benefits and support for employment of carers may be important components of an overall policy package to tackle in-work poverty.

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Preferences for Route of Administration, Frequency and Location – A Time-Trade-Off Study in the United Kingdom General Population

Value in Health ◽

10.1016/j.jval.2017.08.1445 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 20 (9) ◽

pp. A637

Author(s):

T Jørgensen ◽

M Worbes-Cerezo ◽

F Lelli ◽

XY Lee ◽

M Bøgelund ◽

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Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

General Population ◽

Route Of Administration ◽

Trade Off ◽

The United Kingdom

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The Contested Autonomy of Policy Advisory Bodies: The Trade-off Between Autonomy and Control of Policy Advisory Bodies in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Sweden

The Palgrave Handbook of Public Administration and Management in Europe ◽

10.1057/978-1-137-55269-3_61 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 1189-1211

Author(s):

D. Bressers ◽

M. J. W. van Twist ◽

M. A. van der Steen ◽

J. M. Schulz

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Trade Off ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

And Control ◽

Advisory Bodies

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Critical political economy, free movement and Brexit: Beyond the progressive’s dilemma

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations ◽

10.1177/1369148117711082 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

pp. 479-496 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Owen Parker

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

United Kingdom ◽

Human Mobility ◽

Free Movement ◽

Trade Off ◽

Progressive Politics ◽

Shared Identity ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Free Movement Of Goods ◽

The One

The progressive’s dilemma suggests that a trade-off exists between, on the one hand, labour and welfare rights underpinned by solidarity and shared identity and, on the other hand, open immigration regimes. With reference to debates on EU free movement in the United Kingdom, it is argued (1) that a progressive European critical political economy literature of the Left has a tendency to accept this dilemma and resolve it in favour of the former; (2) that it does so because it erroneously conflates the free movement of people with the (increasingly neoliberal) free movement of goods, capital and services; and (3) that it could and should treat human mobility as qualitatively different and, consequently, need not accept the terms of the progressive’s dilemma. The argument has important implications for a progressive politics in general and for the Left’s (particularly the Labour Party’s) position in the United Kingdom on free movement (and, by extension, on Brexit).

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