received additional monthly benefits because of the increase in the exempt amount. Further increases in the exempt amount would undoubtedly continue to be accompanied by even more rapid increases in the proportion of 4-quarter workers, including full-time workers, who would be able to draw benefits. One of the inequities of the retirement test before the 1954 amendments was the dual exemption g...

This paper studies the equilibrium dynamics of an overlapping generations model with capital, money and cash-in-advance constraints. At each date the economy can experience two different regimes. In the first one the cash-inadvance constraint is binding and money is a dominated asset. In the second one, the constraint is strictly satisfied and money has the same return as capital. When the seco...

OBJECTIVE To compare employment and income of working-age (18-64 years) people with and without diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted a prospective population-based cohort study based in Manitoba, Canada, consisting of 25,554 individuals without diabetes and 608 with diabetes, of whom 242 had a complication of the disease. Adjusted odds ratios (ORs) of employment and income varia...

The statistical observation that small firms have created the majority of new jobs during the 1980s has had a tremendous influence on public policy. Governments have looked to the small firm sector for employment growth, and have promoted policies to augment this expansion. However, recent research in the US suggests that net job creation in the small firm sector may have been overestimated, re...

The labor market contribution made by immigrant workers depends on their productivity, as determined by the skills and abilities of these workers and reflected in the hourly wages that they earn, but it also depends on how much they choose to work. Jointly modeling location and employment decisions turns out to have important implications for migrant selectivity. Existing microeconomic models o...

An important segment of the population relies on agriculture for their living, and it has long been a key contributor to GDP India. Because is one country's largest private industries connected variety production market sectors, holds most significant place in Indian economy (Sengupta, n.d.). The projections from Ministry Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) indicate that GVA agric...

BACKGROUND In this paper we seek to tease out differences in socioeconomic position between ethnic groups. There are 3 main reasons why conventional socioeconomic indicators and asset based measures may not be equally applicable to all ethnic groups:1) Differences in response rate to conventional socioeconomic indicators2) Cultural and social differences in economic priorities/opportunities3) D...