This paper compares the supply of specialist ICT skills in Britain and Germany from higher education and from apprenticeship and assesses the relative impact on companies in the two countries. In contrast to Britain, where numbers of ICT graduates have expanded rapidly, the supply of university graduates in Germany has not increased. Combined with the constraints of the German occupational mode...

BACKGROUND Burden on the relatives of patients with schizophrenia may be influenced not only by patient and caregiver characteristics, but also by differences in mental health service provision. AIMS To analyse whether family burden is affected by national differences in the provision of mental health services. METHOD Patients with schizophrenia and their key relatives were examined in Germ...

In this paper we examine the ecological relations between household income distribution and age-grouped mortality in Britain and Japan. Comparable datasets were prepared in terms of age intervals of mortality, household income intervals and geographical units for years around 1990. Then we conducted a series of regression analyses to associate absolute and relative income indices with age and s...

The latter half of the twentieth century has witnessed some striking changes in social fabric of British children's lives. The proportion of births outside marriage has increased dramatically, from 5% in 1960 to 30% in 1991.1 There are currently over one million lone parent families in Britain, nearly a fifth of all families with children. The number of mothers with children under 5 who work ou...

The aim of this study was to examine the impact of regional diets on the health of the poor in mid-Victorian Britain. Contemporary surveys of regional diets and living condition were reviewed. This information was compared with mortality data from Britain over the same period. Although there was an overall improvement in life expectancy during the latter part of the 19th century, there were lar...

The development of the neo-liberal state form in Britain during the 1980s has been characterised by liberalisation, deregulation, privatisation and commodification, placing issues of redistribution and social welfare secondary to the demands of business and enterprise. This active neo-liberal strategy has also, although explicitly non-interventionist, been characterised by a strong, centralised...

This paper uses the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) to analyze individuals' choices on part-time jobs and their impacts on the hourly wages. Our study is a comparative study between Great Britain and the Netherlands. In contrast to most previous researches on part-time employment, we make a distinction between short part-time and long part-time jobs. The results show that overall wome...

The mapping of the land utilization of Great Britain has taken place periodically for the whole country since the 1930s. This and other subsequent projects produced a series of paper maps, which potentially hold valuable information on land use change across Britain. The Department of Geography at the University of Portsmouth, has been involved with a series of collaborative projects, which hav...

Convenience foods enable the consumer to save time and effort in food activities, related to shopping, meal preparation and cooking, consumption and post-meal activities. The objective of this paper is to report on the attitudes and reported behaviour of food consumers in Great Britain based on a review of their convenience food lifestyle (CFLs). The paper also reports the development and appli...