The research on which this paper is based was supported by a grant from the Aberdeen University Advisory Committee for Research. Thanks are due to The Treasury and Local Authorities Conditions of Service Advisory Board for information, to Grant Jordan, Ceri Thomas and Peter Sloane for comments on an earlier draft of this paper, to Hector Williams for help with the considerable computation necessary to produce Table 2 and to all those who typed the manuscript.
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