I use Danish survey and administrative data to examine the impact of maternal employment during pregnancy on birth outcomes. As healthier mothers are more likely to work and health shocks to mothers may impact employment and birth outcomes, I combine two strategies: First, I control extensively for time-varying factors that may correlate with employment and birth outcomes, such as pre-pregnancy...

Should Employment Authorities Worry About Mergers and Acquisitions? This paper considers the role mergers and acquisitions have on employment. First, it considers the importance of different aspects of compensation policy and human resource management practices for distinguishing acquired and acquiring firms. Second, it examines which individuals from which firms remain with the newly created e...

This paper looks at the introduction of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) to EU policymaking. This new mode of governance has been developed over the last decade and has received considerable attention in the literature. However, much of this writing fails to put the OMC into the broader context of EMU; in contrast, this paper links the Amsterdam employment title to the prior Maastricht dec...

The ongoing debate over the cost-effectiveness of renewable energy (RE) and energy efficiency (EE) deployment often hinges on the current cost of incumbent fossil-fuel technologies versus the long-term benefit of clean energy alternatives. This debate is often focused on mature or ‘industrialized’ economies and externalities such as job creation. In many ways, however, the situation in developi...

In this paper we present two projects framed in the Italian Plan of e-Government and we merge them into the Employment Information System (EIS) concept. The first project regards the Italian Workfare Information System, formed by a Portal and its related cooperative information system developed to address unemployment. The system guidelines, architecture, and achievements are illustrated, in pa...

This study focuses on the employment effects of military spending versus alternative domestic spending priorities. The authors begin by introducing the basic input-output modeling technique for considering issues such as these in a systematic way. They then present some simple alternative spending scenarios-namely, devoting $1 billion to the military versus the same amount of money spent for fi...

This study has examined the impact of partial mechanization on crop productivity, income and employment generation in Trisal Upazila of Mymensingh District. Gittinger's methodology (1994) was followed to appraise the profitability of the concerned equipment. The activity budget was used to find out the profitability of MV Boro paddy producing farmers considering `with' and `without' situations....

BACKGROUND The latest national census reports the population of Iranian children (1 - 8 years old) about 11 millions. On the other hand, the latest population policies approved by supreme cultural revolution council (SCRC) will make this population increase faster. Childhood development is one of the social determinants of health, of which "child's play" is a part. OBJECTIVES This study is an...

There is broad consensus among policy makers and consumer groups that greater transparency in healthcare will improve the quality and costs of care delivered. In recent years several government-led transparency initiatives have focused on healthcare institutes like hospitals (Jha et al. 2005, Harris and Buntin 2008). Up to now patients still have very little means of discerning the quality of p...