Labour economics is often taken by vivid discussions about the specificity of the labour market and the need to develop a different approach, away from the current standard microeconomics. What is often forgotten is that this was not always the case. Labour research in the interwar years was quite different from what we regard presently as labour economics, being much more broadly and loosely d...

This article draws up a portrait of effective marginal tax rates (EMTRs) on labour income in Quebec. It aims at allowing a better understanding of the impact of tax policy on the behavior of economic agents. Using an accounting microsimulation model that reproduces the system of taxes and transfers in 2002 Quebec, we measure the EMTRs that result from the interaction of the mechanisms of income...

Using the Households, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, this study examines the joint dynamics of health and poverty of Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a better estimation of the causal relation between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality runs both ways and the relationship could ...

I test for welfare-induced migration by comparing AFDC participation in border counties to interior counties in the same state. If migration costs are lower for border county residents, border counties on the high-benefit side of a state border should have higher welfare participation relative to the state's interior counties. Border counties on the low-benefit side should have lower welfare pa...

The genome projects have unearthed an enormous diversity of genes of unknown function that are still awaiting biological and biochemical characterization. These genes, as most others, can be grouped into families based on sequence similarity. The PFAM database currently contains over 2,200 such families, referred to as domains of unknown function (DUF). In a coordinated effort, the four large-s...

The authors explore how to define a welfare spell and how well surveys measure welfare spells. By comparing survey and administrative data from the Work Pays Demonstration Project in California on the receipt of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), they find that a substantial amount of administrative churning occurs in administrative data. Through a mixing model of several break len...

BACKGROUND Knowledge on how well we can predict primary postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) can help policy makers and health providers design current delivery protocols and PPH case management. The purpose of this paper is to identify risk factors and determine predictive probabilities of those risk factors for primary PPH among women expecting singleton vaginal deliveries in Egypt. METHODS From a p...

MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this 5:00 minute video presentation we show the technique of autologous fat transfer for augmentation mammoplasty and gluteal reshaping in a patient. It starts with showing the marking of the breast, gluteal and abdominal area where the fat will be transferred. Afterwards dorsal liposuction takes place and decantation of the fat occurs in the canister. Then the fat is ...

Nepali labour migrants have serious concerns about their children’s education due to global exposure. Mostly, migrant men are abroad, and stay-home wives care for children education. The purpose of the research is draw essence lived experience migrants’ towards educational support children. This paper addresses question “How do describe experiences children?” using phenomenological design. I us...

Background Being the most backward region, The Far Western Development Region has high illiteracy rate, low socioeconomic status and high migration rate contributing the progression of epidemiological status of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) towards generalized form. Objective To study the demographic profile of the HIV positive patients, along with their CD4 status and tuberculosis during ...