I review the two most popular explanations for the differential trends in wage inequality in US/ UK and Europe: that relative supply of skills increased faster in Europe, and that European labour market institutions prevented inequality from increasing. Although these explanations go some way towards accounting for the differential cross-country inequality trends, it also appears that relative ...

The current paper presents the study of organizational stressors survey carried out in a military institute, responsible for researches of high demand on aerospace technology. The study considered the theoretical framework of Organizational Ergonomics, combined with the technical guidelines of Psychology applied to Work Safety. The participatory approach was used on daily work assessment and de...

In recent decades, the debate on economic growth has largely focused role of its fundamental causes: institutions, geography, trade, and culture. This study analyses underlying causes agricultural productivity in Europe during second half twentieth century. To determine importance causes, Total Factor Productivity European agriculture was calculated for period 1950-2005 several econometric mode...

In the absense of frictionless trade, domestic productivity will be a major determinant of prices. Using repeated cross-sections of absolute prices of individual goods across European countries, I find that products of an industry tend to be cheaper in countries with higher productivity in that industry. Similarly, countries with higher productivity in manufacturing have lower prices for produc...

Coastal resources are coming under increasing pressure from competition between recreational, commercial and conservation uses. This is particularly so in coastal areas adjacent to major population centres. Given high recreational and conservation values in such areas, economic activities need to be highly efficient in order to persist. Management of these industries must therefore also encoura...

Teamwork requires every member to contribute to the team. Encouraging people to contribute in collaboration is exciting and challenging. The model E-CARGO could support collaboration with human users, agents, roles and groups. By assigning roles and transferring roles, we can organize and encourage human users and agents to contribute in collaboration and make the teamwork more profitable. This...