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• Fat Cat salaries: read and weep!

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/08/fat-cat-salaries-read-and-weep/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 8, 2016 Fat Cat Tuesday On the 5 th January 2016 top bosses salaries  FTSE CEOS will already have exceeded the average annual pay of many workers (£27,645) according to the High Pay...

• What makes cities competitive?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/08/what-makes-cities-competitive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 8, 2016 Find out by downloading a recent working paper from the World Bank – Kilroy, A.F.L., Mukim, M., Negri, S. (2015) Competitive cities for jobs and growth : what, who, and how .

• Bank of Mum and Dad fund 25% of Mortgages

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/bank-of-mum-and-dad-fund-25-of-mortgages/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 According to the latest research report from Legal and General and Centre for Economics and Business research (CEBR) in 2016 the high cost of housing means that 25% of all mortgage...

• Gender discrimination in the UK.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/gender-discrimination-in-the-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 Following on from last week’s TUC report which found that ‘Women who become mothers before 33 earn 15% less’, the UK Government this week released the results of a survey on pregnancy...

• British Library for Development Studies

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/05/british-library-for-development-studies/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2015 A marvellous site to explore as more full content is being added is the British Library for Development Studies (BLDS). Get free aces to materials not readily available elsewhere.

• Do you earn enough money to live in London?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/23/do-you-earn-enough-money-to-live-in-london/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2015 Try out this calculator from the Trust for London which calculates levels of basic income for different types of households.

• Northern Ireland Archives

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/09/28/northern-ireland-official-publications-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 28, 2017 The Northern Ireland Official Publications Archive (NIOPA) is now freely available at the following address: http://niopa.qub.ac.uk/   It is possible to browse by department.

• Equal Pay Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/13/equal-pay-day-3/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2017 Equal pay day 2017 is the 10 th November. This is the date after which effectively pay becomes unequal with men earning more than women.

• Entrepreneurship at a Glance

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/16/entrepreneurship-at-a-glance/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 16, 2017 The latest edition of this key report from the OECD is now available free to read online subscribers to the OECD library can download the full text.

• Budget day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/08/budget-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2017 Today (8th March) is budget day- keep up with the news and views – with our selection of academic resources.