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Imperfect Competition And The Trade Cycle: Guidelines From The Late Thirties
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
It is the study of the trade cycle during the thirties that made imperfectly competitive output markets a major theme in macroeconomics, principally under the lead of Harrod. Both he and Keynes...
Provided by: Universite Catholique de Louvain
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Pension Systems, Ageing And The Stability And Growth Pact
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
This paper explores how the Stability and Growth Pact may cope with the future costs of population ageing in the European Union. Clearly, population ageing has forced countries to reform their...
Provided by: European Communities
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An Empirical Assessment Of Assortative Matching In The Labor Market
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. The authors investigate...
Provided by: Collegio Carlo Alberto
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The Changing Nature Of Wage Inequality
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
The paper reviews recent developments in the literature on wage inequality, with a particular focus on why inequality growth has been particularly concentrated in the top end of the wage...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Role Of Temporary Help Employment In Low-wage Worker Advancement
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the effects of temporary help service employment on later earnings and employment for individuals participating in three federal programs providing supportive services to those...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Impact Of Research Grant Funding On Scientific Productivity
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors estimate the impact of receiving an NIH grant on subsequent publications and citations. The sample consists of all applications (unsuccessful as well as successful) to...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Fear, Unemployment And Migration
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
UK population growth over the past thirty-five years has been remarkably low in comparison with other countries; the population grew by just 7% between 1971 and 2004, less than all the other EU15...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Wages, Violence And Health In The Household
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
Three quarters of all violence against women is perpetrated by domestic partners. The author studies both the economic causes and consequences of domestic violence. The author finds that decreases...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Information Technology And Medical Missteps: Evidence From A Randomized Trial
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
The authors analyze the effect of a decision support tool designed to help physicians detect and correct medical "Missteps". The data comes from a randomized trial of the technology on a...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Risk Tolerance And Alcohol Demand Among Adults And Older Adults
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
This paper has two primary goals. These are the examination of the effect of risk tolerance on individuals' demand for alcohol and second, the examination of the demand for alcohol by older adults...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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R&D Policy In Economies With Endogenous Growth And Non-Renewable Resources
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
The aim of this paper is to analyze how active R&D policies affect the growth rate of an economy with endogenous growth and non-renewable resources. The authors know from Scholz and Ziemens (1999)...
Provided by: University of the Basque Country
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A Case for an Over-Provisioned Multicore System: Energy Efficient Processing of Multithreaded Programs
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
Technology scaling has provided system designers with an exploding transistor budget, far more than what was available when the core principles behind many existing commodity microprocessors were...
Provided by: University of Wisconsin System
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Wage Changes, Establishment Growth, And The Effect Of Composition Bias
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
The correlation between real wages and aggregate employment growth has been the object of several empirical studies conducted with both aggregate and micro data. Despite the new availability of...
Provided by: University of Massachusetts Lowell
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Distributed Knowledge Map for Mining Data on Grid Platforms
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
Recently, huge datasets representing different applications domains are produced and stored on distributed platforms. These datasets are, generally, owned by different organizations. As a...
Provided by: University College Dublin
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Modern Credential Access Control Approach Based on Pseudonymous Signature
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a modern credential access control approach which allows the organizations to provide their resources/services on the internet and grant access rights to users by employing...
Provided by: Vishwakarma Institute of Technology
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Automated Configuration of Component-Based Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems From Feature Models
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems are increasingly being built using component-based technologies. Component technologies facilitate software reuse across applications by allowing...
Provided by: Vanderbilt University
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The Divorce Of Ownership From Control From 1900: Re-calibrating Imagined Global Historical Trends
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
In 1900 US business corporations were dominated by plutocratic family owners, while British and French quoted companies more commonly divorced ownership from control. 'Democratic' corporate...
Provided by: University of Tokyo
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Reform Perspectives On Welfare State Models In Global Capitalism
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
In the tradition of Esping-Andersen a number of welfare state models have been characterized. In this paper, the authors analyze the economic and social performance of these different welfare...
Provided by: Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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Technological Change And Transition: Relative Contributions To Worldwide Growth During The 1990s
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors used the procedures developed in the Kumar and Russell (2002) growth-accounting study to examine cross-country growth during the 1990's. Using a data set comprising...
Provided by: German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V.)
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Perfect Phrases For Dealing With Difficult People
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
No matter where you work or what you do, you're bound to run into "Colorful characters" who can make your job challenging. No question-learning to deal with them will prove critical to your...
Provided by: McGraw-Hill Companies
