We set up a model with on?the?job search in which firms infrequently post vacancies for workers occasionally apply. The nests the standard job ladder and stock?flow models as special cases, while remaining analytically tractable easy to estimate from panel data sets. parameters structurally estimated on US are significantly different either restrictions imposed by or model. Imposing these under...

background and purpose: according to developments related to the relative autonomy of universities and acquired extensive powers by the board of trustees of universities of medical sciences and healthcare services in a twenty-year perspective of country and in the context of the fourth and fifth socio-economic cultural development of country, necessity of developing financial and transactional ...

This longitudinal survey of local economic changes in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, is based on two extensive economic studies from the mid-1980s and data gathered in 1997. This comparison allows an examination of the changing importance of some sectors of the local economy and leads to a discussion of the factors contributing to both changes and lack of change in the community’s economy. Job opportunit...

The term social exclusion in its most general sense refers to a lack of engagement with broader society. This can arise through an absence of opportunities for employment or study, or though barriers to participation in social or recreational activities, among many other causes. Recently, work has been undertaken to develop small area indicators of social exclusion risk specific to children, an...

High ability individuals can be constrained from commensurate employment opportunities due to their geographic location. In the face of physical, informational and social barriers to migration, firms with nation-wide hiring practices can benefit from facilitating the migration of high ability individuals from low employment districts to regions with better employment opportunities. We exploit a...

In this paper, we assess whether boosting minority car-ownership rates would narrow inter-racial employment rate differentials. We pursue two empirical strategies. First, we explore whether the effect of auto ownership on the probability of being employed is greater for more segregated groups of workers. Exploiting the fact that African-Americans are considerably more segregated from whites tha...