We combine Current Population Survey microdata for 1979-1987 with a newly assembled database of tax rates for the Unemployment Insurance system to measure the effects of imperfect experience-rating on temporary layoffs and other types of unemployment. We find a strong negative association between the degree of experience-rating and the rate of temporary layoff unemployment, with the largest eff...

The delivery of health care continues to change rapidly. Consumers are driving and so is technology. There new competitors entering into address access care, efficiencies, coordination. Many times, nurses have great ideas on how can be improved yet do not know effect the change. Jasmine Bhatti, RN, PhD(c), MS, chief executive officer Navi Nurses, decided she would figure out make her idea becom...

The Two-and-a-Half Years that Dewey lived in Japan and China offered him an East-West comparative standpoint to examine Euro-American presuppositions. In subsequent work, he took steps the direction of a global philosophical outlook by promoting fusion aesthetic refinements with democratic experimentalism. year 2021 marks centennial Dewey's return United States, yet philosophers this country ha...

Risk is a major factor in health, with a strong focus on minimising risk wherever possible. The mathematical starting point is probability. Reliable or relevant data is often missing or hard to get. Moreover, the results of studies are all too easily interpreted wrongly – even by medical experts. Usually it is seen as useful to have more information in making decisions. As we show below this is...

ABSTRACT Islamic banking is undoubtedly faced with several potential financing risks, the three largest contracts (Mudharaba, Musharaka, and Murabaha) that reduce financial performance of banks. The risk strengthened if stability national economic growth contracted. Therefore, this research aims to investigate impact Mudharaba, Murabaha on Financing Risk moderated by business cycle relationship...

L are used commonly in agricultural systems Legume mulches are important sources of N for cereal crop producas a source of N for subsequent crops and for maintion, particularly for organic and resource-poor producers. A field taining soil N levels. This use is particularly important study was conducted using a direct method to determine if the amount in the humid tropics where N fertilizers oft...

Urban theory, produced in North Atlantic centres, has been perpetrated as universal and recent urban studies have pointed to the limits of this calling for a Southern turn. The call is dislocate concentration power knowledge metropolis. Owing concentration, concerns metropolis often become (or are made become) periphery. Taking informality practice, not embedded people (marginalised) or places ...

Wakefield’s Harmful Dysfunction Analysis (HDA) for distinguishing disorders from nondisorders has received much attention in the literature. Although the analysis has many strengths, Wakefield (1999a; 1999b) fails to appropriately capture the nature of the disorder construct thereby leading to much confusion. A solution is offered suggesting disorder can be thought of as a utilitarian construct...