Abstract Using a broad panel of advanced economies, we document that increases in GDP per capita are associated with systematic shift the composition value added to sectors intensive high-skill labour, process label as skill-biased structural change. It follows further development these economies leads an increase relative demand for skilled labour. We develop quantitative two-sector model this...

Motivation: The Polish labor market employs employees from four generations, but not all of them have the competences required by knowledge-based economy and 4.0 economy. According to author, adjusting employees’ requirements modern is determined, among others, specificity generations. Their features, attitudes, values job expectations affect competences, which generates quantitative qualitativ...

Industry analysts have indicated that there is a trend toward more value-added production in the Canadian forest industry. This suggests that the value of output has increased relative to the primary resource costs of production, leaving increased returns available for other production costs. If, however, these other costs out-pace value-added growth, the industry may be in jeopardy as profit l...

Since the end of the Second World War in 1945, Europe has experienced some dramatic events and drastic changes that have had consequences on population structures and economies. To this must be added that secularism and immigration during the last thirty years have changed European religious life. These positive and negative developments have also affected Seventh-day Adventist churches. In ord...

Self-signaling models predict less selfish behavior in a probabilistic giving setting as individuals are expected to invest pro-social identity. However, there is also substantial evidence that people tend exploit situational excuses for choices (for instance, uncertainty) and behave more selfishly. We contrast these two motivations (identity management self-deception) experimentally order test...

The past academic literature on tax policy has focused almost entirely on the analysis of tax structures in the richest countries, particularly the U.S. Overall the optimal tax models explain reasonably well the observed tax policies in these countries. As summarized in Gordon (2000), for example, past theoretical work suggests that taxes on consumption or labor income should dominate use of ca...