Paul Ashton BSc (Econs), BA (Social Science), MSc (Gerontology) Project Researcher University of Greenwich, LINK Centre for Deafened People School of Health & Social Care Avery Hill, University of Greenwich, London SE9 2UG , UK email: p.h.ashton@gre.ac.uk The LINK Centre for Deafened People 19 Hartfield Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN21 2AR, UK email: paul.ashton@linkcntr.dircon.co.uk Current Work I am presently working at the University of Greenwich and the LINK Centre for Deafened People on a 3-year Community Fund-financed project on the psychosocial problems faced by deafened people and their families. Using both questionnaires and one-to-one interviews, the aim of the research is to find ways to help individuals and families overcome the problems that result from late-onset profound deafness. [N.B. Work now finished, email addresses non-functional]. Related Links The LINK Centre for Deafened People Research Apart from my present research project, other areas of research interests include poverty and income distribution, unemployment, and the UK tax and benefit system. Previous research projects have included: Detailed statistical analysis of General Household Survey data tapes for test of New Classical Labour Supply Hypothesis using a large number of variables relating to income, employment, and personal and household characteristics in multiple regressions using the SPSS software. Regional unemployment project using both time-series and regional cross-sectional data on output, rates of unemployment, union density, and business rates. A Housing Mobility Index was constructed to measure the disparity between free market and controlled rents in the private and local authority rented sectors to explain regional variations in unemployment rates. Forecasting of Liverpool and Merseyside's output and unemployment. Writing of a Tax-Benefit computer program to identify the 'poverty' and unemployment traps brought about by the interaction of the two systems. Computer analysis of questionnaires on NHS printing practices returned from District and Regional Health Authorities, and the writing-up of the results. Labour demand & supply analyses of the German and Belgium economies. Incentive and disincentive effects of income tax changes on top earners. Assessments of government programmes directed at the long-term unemployed. Appraisal of government proposals for changes to the tax and benefit systems (Lawson/Fowler reforms). Construction of a model to forecast the future demand for health care in the UK. Writing of a computer program to emulate the Child Support agency's formula for calculating maintenance Payments. Publications Ashton P., 'Families in the Poverty and Unemployment Traps', House of Commons Treasury and Civil Service Sub-Committee, The Structure of Personal Income Taxation and Income Support, Appendices (1983), pp. 92-107 Ashton P., 'Out of Work Benefits and Income in Work: updated estimates', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, September 1983, pp. 16-19 Ashton P., 'Social Security Changes and Employment Decisions', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, December 1983, pp. 32-35 Ashton P., 'The Housing Benefit Saga', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, March 1984, pp. 28-30 Ashton P., 'Poverty and its Beholders', New Society, 18th October 1984, pp. 95-98 Ashton P., 'Replacement Ratios and Unemployment Decisions', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, December 1984, pp. 24-27 Minford P., Ashton P., Peel M., Davies D., and Sprague A., Unemployment - Cause and Cure, (2nd. Edition), Martin Robertson, 1985 Ashton P., and Minford P., 'On Reforming Social Security', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, September 1985, pp. 26-38 Minford P., Ashton P., and Peel M., 'Housing Reform to Create Jobs', Economic Affairs, Vol. 6 No. 3 (1986), pp. 32-34 Minford P., Stoney P., and Ashton P., 'Regional Prospects', Merseyside Economic Prospect, Vol. 1 No 1, February 1986 Ashton P., 'The Lawson/Fowler Reforms: A Tax-Benefit System for the 1990s', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, June 1986 Minford P., Peel M., and Ashton P., The Housing Morass, Hobart Paperback 25, I.E.A., 1987 Ashton P., 'Tackling Long-term Unemployment: An Assessment of Restart', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, March 1987, pp. 27-30 Ashton P., and Minford P., 'What is the effect on tax revenue of cutting top tax rates?', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, March 1987, pp. 21-22 Ashton P., 'Poverty - what poverty?', Poverty, Spring 1987 No. 66 Minford P., and Ashton P., 'Labour supply responses and the effect of tax rates', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, March 1988, pp. 28-35 Ashton P., 'Good news for Merseyside', Daily Post, 16/3/88 Ashton P., 'Dependency And Unemployment Compensation', Economic Affairs, Vol 8 No.4 (1988) pp. 6-11 Minford P., Ashton P., and Peel M., 'The Effects of Housing Distortions on Unemployment', Oxford Economic Papers, 40 (1988), 322-345 Minford P., Peel M., and Ashton P., "Second Take: The Housing Morass", Roof, March/April, pp. 34-35, 1988. Ashton P., 'Tax/Benefit Reform and Incentives', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, Dec 1988, pp. 31-36 Ashton P., 'Social Security - one year on', Community Care, 23 March 1989 Ashton P., 'Homelessness and the Housing Market', Economic Affairs, vol. 10 no.6 (1990) Ashton P., 'Major Balancing Act', Daily Post, 21 March 1990 Minford P., Ashton P., 'Labour's Economic Policies', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, June 1990 Ashton P., 'Trickle-Down: Myth or Reality?', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, October 1990 Minford P., Ashton P., and Peel M., 'Housing Reform to Create Jobs', in: Recent Controversies in Political Economy, ed. R. Lewis, Routledge, pp. 124-131, 1991 Minford P., Ashton P., and Peel M., 'Housing Reform to Create Jobs', in: The Supply Side Revolution in Britain, A.P.L. Minford, Edward Elgar, pp. 132-140, 1990 Minford P., Ashton P., Greenwood B., Labour's Economic Policies: how much will they cost the economy?, Aims of Industry, January 1991 Minford P., Ashton P., 'The Poverty Trap and the Laffer Curve - What Can the GHS Tell Us?', Oxford Economic Papers 43 (1991), 245-279 Minford P., Ashton P., 'The Effects in the UK of the EEC Wage Proposals in the Social Charter', International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 12 No 2, 1991 20-23 Ashton P., 'Touch on the Tiller', Daily Post, 20 March 1991 Ashton P., 'The Unemployment Trap in the Thatcher Years', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, March 1991 Ashton P., 'The Anomalous CSA Maintenance Formula: Proposals for Reform' LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, Oct, 1994 Ashton P., 'How Go the Poverty and Unemployment Traps?', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, Vol. 15 No 3, October 1994 Minford P., Ashton P., Public Spending: a twenty-year plan for reform, Centre for Policy Studies, November 1995 Ashton P., 'Poverty Definitions and the Poverty Lobby', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, June 1996, pp34-40 Minford P., Ashton P., 'Rolling back the State: a proposals for reforming public spending', Economics and Business Education, Autumn 1996, Vol. IV, Part 3, pp.103-105 Ashton P., 'From Unemployment to Work: Barriers to the Part-Time Option', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, June 1997 Ashton P., 'Give Labour's jobs policy a chance', Personnel Today, 30 October 1997 Ashton P., 'Welfare Reform: A Basic Income Next?', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, April 1998 Ashton P., 'The Working Families Tax Credit: a Reform Worth Having?', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, July 1998 pp23-32 Ashton P., 'A Note on the Employment and PSBR effects of the Minimum Wage', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, October 1998 pp20-21 Ashton P., 'Child Maintenance Reform: an equitable solution?', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, December 1998 pp28-34 Ashton P., 'Pension Reform: at what cost?', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, April 1999 pp24-28 Ashton P., ' New Labour's Welfare and Tax Reforms: all that glitters…', LMRG Quarterly Economic Bulletin, March 2001 pp20-32 Hallam, R., Ashton P., Sherbourne K., Gailey L., 'Acquired profound hearing loss: mental health and other characteristics of a large sample.' International Journal of Audiology, Volume 45, Number 12, December 2006, pp. 715-723 Hallam, R., Ashton. P., Sherbourne, K., Gailey, L., & Corney, R., 'Coping, conversation tactics and marital interaction in persons with acquired profound hearing loss (APHL): Correlates of distress.' Audiological Medicine, Volume 5, Issue 2 2007, pp. 103-111 Hallam, R., Ashton P., Sherbourne K., Gailey L., 'Persons with acquired profound hearing loss (APHL): how do they and their families adapt to the challenge?', Health, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 369-388 (2008)