Affiliation: | Public Sector Economics Research Centre, Department of Economics, University of Leicester. Material from Crown copyright records made available through the Home Office and the ESRC Data Archive has been used by permission of the Controller of Her Majestys Stationery Office. The author is grateful to Derek Deadman, Kevin Lee, Stephen Pudney, David Pyle and Michael Shields for helpful comments and suggestions on an earlier draft. The paper has also benefited considerably from insightful comments and suggestions from two anonymous referees. Any remaining errors and omissions are the sole responsibility of the author. |