This paper presents evidence on the link between employment protection legislation (EPL), such as mandated severance packages for fired workers, and the rate of unemployment in a cross-country panel data set of OECD countries from 1990-2013. We use both a traditional fixed effects panel specification with lags of the policy variable, and also a unique structural panel vector autoregression (PVA...

This study presents results from an effort to fabricate a shape memory alloy hybrid composite (SMAHC) panel specimen and test the structure for dynamic response and noise transmission characteristics under the action of thermal and random acoustic loads. A method for fabricating a SMAHC laminate with bi-directional SMA reinforcement is described. Glass-epoxy unidirectional prepreg tape and Niti...

This study applies the panel stationarity test developed by Carrion-i-Silvestre et al 2005. Breaking the panels: An application to GDP per capita. Econometrics Journal 8, 159-175] to examine the stationarity of energy consumption per capita for a panel of 13 Pacific Island countries over the period 1980 to 2005. This test has the advantage that it allows for multiple structural breaks at unknow...

This paper studies a panel data regression setting, where a break occurs at a unknown common date. In this paper, we establish the consistency and rate of convergence of the change point estimator. The break date can be estimated consistently both in …xed time horizon and large panels, which indicates that the structural change can be well detected even in short panels. Furthermore, the limitin...

Summary: CCLP (Cancer Cell Line Profiler) is a webserver for the prediction of compound activity across the NCI60 panel. CCLP uses a multi-task Random Forest model trained on 941,831 data-points that integrates structural information from 17,142 compounds and multi-omics data sets from 59 cancer cell lines. In addition, CCLP also implements conformal prediction to provide individual prediction ...

This paper examines whether or not immigration has a positive influence on the duration of unemployment, in a macroeconomic perspective. We analyse also whether the degree of labor market integration can influence migration. The integration of immigrants into the labor market is a recurrence theme in the work on the economic consequences of immigration. However, to our knowledge, no researchers...

The Persistence of Informality: Evidence from Panel Data Informality is a growing phenomenon in the developing and transition country labor market context. In particular, it is noticeable that working in an informal employment relationship is often not temporary. The degree of persistence of informality in the labor market might be due to different sources: structural state dependence due to pa...

As global interest in using engineered wood products in tall buildings intensifies due to the “green” credential of wood, it is expected that more tall wood buildings will be designed and constructed in the coming years. This, however, brings new challenges to the designers. One of the major challenges is how to design lateral load-resisting systems (LLRSs) with sufficient stiffness, strength, ...