While kinks are prevalent in tax and transfer systems, the fiscal revenue behavioral responses not fully understood. In disability insurance (DI) programs, for instance, help balance moral hazard effects from induced entry with provision of work incentives recipients who regain their ability to work. Using quasi-random variation kink points benefit schedule Norwegian DI recipients, I identify i...

Cengiz Aytmatov’un Sovyet çalışma hayatı ve emek ilişkilerine bakışındaki tarihsel kırılma değişimleri anlamak, bu makalenin ana amacını oluşturmaktadır. Onun emek
 dair eserleri iki döneme ayrılarak incelenecektir. İlk eserler, Sosyalist Devrim’in yeni hayata ilişkin vaatlerinin gerçekleştiği varsayımıyla yazılmıştır. Emekçiler, sistemle çevreleriyle
 uyumlu, mutlu, müreffeh bir haya...

The historical demographic analysis in this article is a revision of a paper presented at the Conference of the Northwest Regional Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in 1988 at the University of Oregon. The author takes the view that fertility has remained high in the Southeast Asian region due to the dynamics of colonialism and the reinforcement of traditional society. Industrialization,...

background: an increasing success in induction of labor and subsequent termination of pregnancy in presence of unfavorable cervix requires cervical ripening in order to reduce complications and to diminish the rate of cesarean sections as well as the duration of labor.  however, there is no consensus on the efficiency of conventional methods for cervical ripening.   objective: to determine and ...

To the extent that a society is to work, there exist a need for a cooperative process, including Weber’s and Merton’s note of common means and goals. But at the same time, there exist no societal process without involving conflict; (conflict in a dynamic and dialectical sense.) Dealing with this problematic situation the emergence of “division of labor”, as a compulsive social differentiation, ...