Handling heteroskedasticity in labour demand functions of athletes

Indicators of Labour Demand

There are several indicators of labour demand that can be used to assess labour market conditions and as inputs into forecasts of employment growth. These include measures of job vacancies, job advertisements and business surveys of employment intentions. Over the past year, there have been pronounced declines in a number of these indicators and employment growth has been somewhat subdued. This...

a contrastive study of rhetorical functions of citation in iranian and international elt scopus journals

writing an academic article requires the researchers to provide support for their works by learning how to cite the works of others. various studies regarding the analysis of citation in m.a theses have been done, while little work has been done on comparison of citations among elt scopus journal articles, and so the dearth of research in this area demands for further investigation into citatio...

Globalisation and Labour Demand Elasticities in Britain*

Do multinational firms exhibit different patterns of labor demand from purely domestic firms? Many standard models of trade and multinational companies suggest such differences. We examine this question using a plant-level panel covering U.K. manufacturing from 1973 through 1992, where we can distinguish U.K.-headquartered multinationals, foreign-owned multinationals, and domestic U.K. firms. A...

In Focus Labour – the Demand Side

Handling Discrete Demand in Continuous - Timeproduction

Models and solution procedures were proposed in a previous work for continuous-time production planning, i.e., when production and demand are expressed in terms of rates instead of quantities. This paper investigates the case where demand is discrete, i.e., corresponds to quantities of products that need to be fulllled at given points in time. After describing the model and the solution procedu...