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• Economics of the Oscars

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/13/economics-of-the-oscars/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2018 As the winners of the Academy awards 2018 have been announced, here are some social science sites for locating materials on the economics of the Oscars.

• gesisDataSearch: a Data Discovery Index for the Social Sciences

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/20/gesisdatasearch-a-data-discovery-index-for-the-social-sciences/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2018 Now in beta, a new tool which will enable researchers to quickly identify high quality social and economic datasets.

• Equal Pay Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/11/equal-pay-day-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2016 This year equal pay day was 10 th November  This highlights the gender gap in wages as it is calculated by researchers to represent the last day in which women earn the same as men.

• Zero hour contracts

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/06/zero-hour-contracts/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2014 The  UK Office for National Statistics  has just released some initial data on the number of individuals employed on zero hours contracts.

• The boomerang generation

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/01/the-boomerang-generation/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 1, 2015 Are you part of the ‘boomerang generation’? LSE has published research on the impact on family relationships of young adults returning to the parental home after graduating from university.

• Opinion polls world-wide

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/opinion-polls-world-wide/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 Eurobarometer: http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/index_en.

• Large corporations and tax

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/20/large-corporations-and-tax/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 20, 2012 L arge corporations and tax. Here are some a starting points for research. HM Revenue website has the official regulations and forms.

• Reminder: Primary Sources

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/01/18/reminder-primary-sources/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2013 USA 108 volumes of the Foreign Relations of the United States are now available in epub and MOBI formats. http://history.state.

• Graduates in the Labour Market 2012

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/09/graduates-in-the-labour-market-2012/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2012 http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lmac/graduates-in-the-labour-market/2012/graduates-in-the-labour-market.

• How well do we manage our financial lives?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/23/how-well-do-we-manage-our-financial-lives/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2017 Interesting findings on high levels of debt and vulnerability and lack of financial knowledge among the British adult population in the first Financial Lives Survey 2017 released by...