The Distribution of Self-Employment Income in the United Kingdom, 1976-1991

Author(s): Simon C. Parker

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The Economic Journal, Vol. 107, No. 441 (Mar., 1997), pp. 455-466

Published by: Blackwell Publishing for the Royal Economic Society

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• Issue Table of Contents
  • The Economic Journal, Vol. 107, No. 441 (Mar., 1997), pp. 297-535+i-xiii
    • Front Matter
    • Bringing Income Distribution in From the Cold [pp.  297 - 321]
    • Does Part-Whole Bias Exist? An Experimental Investigation [pp.  322 - 332]
    • The Performance of Immigrants in the United Kingdom: Evidence from the GHS [pp.  333 - 344]
    • Temporary and Permanent Changes in Consumption Growth [pp.  345 - 358]
    • Irrational Analysts' Expectations as a Cause of Excess Volatility in Stock Prices [pp.  359 - 371]
    • Universal Decentralisation: A Demand System for Collective and Unitary Models with Household Public Goods [pp.  372 - 389]
    • Estimation of a Hedonic Price Equation for Bordeaux Wine: Does Quality Matter? [pp.  390 - 402]
    • Fiscal Policy Coordination with Demand Spillovers and Unionised Labour Markets [pp.  403 - 417]
    • Countervailing Power and Consumer Prices [pp.  418 - 430]
    • Investment, Output and Interest Rate Policy When Capital is Mobile [pp.  431 - 440]
    • Hyperinflation and Stabilisation: Cagan Revisited [pp.  441 - 454]
    • The Distribution of Self-Employment Income in the United Kingdom, 1976-1991 [pp.  455 - 466]
    • Nominal Shocks, Endogenous Growth and the Business Cycle [pp.  467 - 474]
    • Chain-Formation in the Owner-Occupied Housing Market [pp.  475 - 488]
    • On the Performance of Social Benefit Systems [pp.  489 - 502]
    • Alternative Semi-Parametric Likelihood Approaches to Generalised Method of Moments Estimation [pp.  503 - 519]
    • Constraints on the Desired Hours of Work of British Men [pp.  520 - 535]
    • Back Matter [pp.  i - xiii]