The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS, the Bureau) projections for the U.S. economy during the 2000–10 decade reflect continued growth. Gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to reach $12.8 trillion in chained 1996 dollars by the end of the decade, an increase of $3.6 trillion over the period. Rising by an average annual rate of 3.4 percent, GDP is projected to grow faster than the 3.2percent a...

the overall aim of the present study was to estimate the time series of agricultural employment in the gilan province during 1976-2011, and modeling and forecasting employment using artificial neural networks for years 2012-2019. for this purpose, employment series calculated by interpolation and input variables selected based on previous theoretical and empirical research. finally, number of a...

PURPOSES To establish the visually impaired resource class users profile in the city of Assis - SP, to estimate the visually impaired employment percentage and to compare employment rate with age, gender, deficiency type and causing disease between two periods:1984 - 1996 and 1997 - 2009. METHODS Retrospective review of both medical and school records from visually impaired individuals attend...

In 1999, nearly two-fifths of births in Britain were outside marriage. This study estimates the impact of employment opportunities in the local labour market on the probability that a childless never married woman has a birth outside marriage. It uses the unemployment rate in the travel-to-work area in which the woman lives as the indicator of employment opportunities. The estimates indicate po...

This paper revisits the discussion about the contribution of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth to Indonesia’s economic growth during 1971-2005. It re-estimates the contribution of TFP to economic growth during this period on the basis of new estimates of GDP, capital stock, education-adjusted employment, and factor income shares. After accounting for the growth of capital stock and educati...

1. We developed an innovative Integrated Supported Employment (ISE) service protocol, which amplifies the effect of the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model by the addition of workrelated social skills training. 2. Participants in the ISE outperformed those in the IPS and traditional vocational rehabilitation (TVR) with respect to employment rate, job tenure, and some psychological outc...

This paper develops a two-sector model that considers Baumol’s service paradox. The paper simultaneously incorporates two ideas about technological progress in the model: (1) the consumption of services contributes to human capital accumulation and (2) the production of manufacturing leads to technological progress due to learning-by-doing. Accordingly, productivity growth in both services and ...