Tak Wing Chan

Preprint Article Version 1 This version is not peer-reviewed Version 1 : Received: 19 September 2024 / Approved: 20 September 2024 / Online: 20 September 2024 (09:55:30 CEST) Mak, S. L.; Fu, C. Y.; Chan, T. W.; Tang, W. F.; Chak, W. Y.; Au, S. L.; Lee, C. C.; Li, C. H.; Li, C. Y. A Study on the Teachers’ Perception of the Online Language Learning Mode During the COVID- 19 Pandemic in China. Preprints 2024, 2024091593. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.1593.v1 Mak, S. L.; Fu, C. Y.; Chan, T. W.; Tang, W.

2.2 Explanatory variables The Chinese import shock variable is taken from Colantone and Stanig (2018).4 This variable is measured for each of the 167 NUTS-3 units of Great Britain.5 The spatial unit of the Understanding Society data set that we have access to is the much smaller Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs), which is the second smallest spatial unit of the UK census. On average, each LSOA has a population of about 1,500 people, compared to about 370,000 for NUTS-3.

1 A PROGRESSIVE DILEMMA? Are diverse societies more fractious? Is there a trade-off between social diversity and social cohesion? The answers to these questions, according to David Willetts, a Conservative peer and former cabinet minister, are yes. Here he is, in a round-table discussion on the welfare state, explaining why diversity undermines social solidarity.