Marriage, Partnership and Sexual Orientation: A Study of British University Academics and Administrators Using a unique data source on marital status, partnership and sexual orientation of academics and administrators at British universities, we estimate the impact of personal relationships upon earnings for men and women. While university data cover a relatively homogeneous group of workers, t...

Labor’s share of GDP in most OECD countries has declined over the last two decades. Some authors have suggested that these changes are linked to deregulation of product and labor markets. To examine this we focus on a large quasi-experiment in the OECD: the privatization of many network industries (e.g. telecommunications and utilities). We present a model with agency problems, imperfect produc...

The Resource-Constrained Project-Scheduling Problem (RCPSP) is an NP-hard problem which can be found in many research domains. optimal solution of the RCPSP problems requires a balance between exploration/exploitation and diversification/intensification. With this mind, quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithms' ability to improve population quality solutions, work investigates performance genet...

Using comprehensive high-frequency state and local sales tax data, we show that shopping behavior responds strongly to changes in rates. Even though taxes are not observed posted prices have a wide range of rates exemptions, consumers adjust many dimensions. They stock up on storable goods before rise increase online cross-border both the short long run. The difference between short- long-run s...

This paper critically surveys the growing literature on policy choices of local governments. First, we identify various reasons for government interactions, including fiscal competition, bidding firms, yardstick expenditure spillovers, and Tiebout sorting. We discuss theoretically what parameters should be estimated to determine reason competition among emphasize how outcomes emerging from this...

This paper integrates the classical resource-constrained project scheduling problem with step deterioration and accordingly presents a solution-based tabu search (SB-TS) algorithm to solve it challenging computations. First, we choose successor list size as priority rule generate initial solution of presented methods. Next, corresponding decoding calculation ways are defined update related conf...

Since its advent, the resource constrained project scheduling problem has been a favorite NP-Hard studied by many researchers. In this paper, we examine with focus on total time minimization, usually known as makespan minimization. To end, nature-inspired Cuckoo Search Algorithm (CSA) introduced that works simulating brooding parasitism of some cuckoo birds in nature. nutshell, proposed search ...

Reference Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic ut...