Dynamics and Diversity: Ethnic Employment Differences in England and Wales, 1991-2001 This paper uses microdata from the 1991 and 2001 Population Censuses to examine differences in the employment experiences of ethnic minorities living in England and Wales. It focuses on two main issues, firstly the extent to which the employment position of the main ethnic minority groups changed between the t...

Herein we address the total synthesis of the natural product oasomycin A by assembly of the C1–C12, C13–C28, and C29–C46 subunits, whose syntheses have been described in the preceding Communications. The synthesis plan (Scheme 1) incorporates a speculative late-stage macrolactonization of the linear seco acid precursor to form a 42-membered lactone that upon global deprotection would provide th...

Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity in China: Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal employment and obesity in children aged 3–17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for pediatric adiposity, we provide scant evidence for ...

This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly available data. We find that fir...

Unemployment is one of the greatest economic and social problems in Turkey, as well it many other countries world. often explained by macroeconomic factors. However, demographic individual characteristics also have an effect on unemployment duration individuals, addition to The present study aims find factors that individuals Turkey with count data regression models. Therefore, examined Poisson...

Causal Effects on Employment after First Birth: A Dynamic Treatment Approach The effects of childbirth on future labor market outcomes are a key issue for policy discussion. This paper implements a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity leave coverage. Effect heter...

in this study, the impact of internal r&d; expenditure, technology imports and interaction effects between human capital and technology imports on value added of iranian large industries are investigated over the period of 1994-2008. for this purpose, an endogenous growth model is used in which production is a function of labor, capital stock, human capital, internal r&d; expenditure, technolog...

 Abstract Background: With increasing knowledge concerning fractures of the distal radius, different classifications have been proposed. Reliability of most of these classifications has been assessed. The Fernandez classification has never been assessed for intraobserver and interobserver reliability, although this classification is commonly used. Methods: Five observers including one attending...