We use large linked employer-employee data to analyze wage inequality patterns in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries between 2002 2014. show that, unlike many other advanced economies, levels have decreased almost all CEE countries. These reductions resulted from disproportionately increases wages at the bottom of distribution, decreases between-firm inequality. further find that decl...

erately cater your education to these end objectives. Many countries in the world have developed consensus on these competencies, in so-called competency frameworks. The most well-known are the frameworks from the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education from the US [1], the CanMEDS framework from Canada [2] and Good Medical Practice from the UK [3]. There are many other countries in...

Multicast 1 is one of the best available service models for scalable, many-to-many delivery of data on the Internet. Multicast achieves scalability by letting sources send a packet only once, regardless of the number of receivers. In network-layer multicast, network elements (routers, switches, and so on) replicate packets at network branching points, delivering copies to all interested receive...

T H E DECADE that has passed since the Social Security Act was adopted in the United States saw a rapid expansion of social security measures throughout the world. When the act was under consideration by Congress in the spring of 1 9 3 5 , Great Britain and almost every country of Europe had one or more social insurance programs providing protection against the risks of old age, death, invalidi...