This article considers the international diffusion of business cycle on the basis of a rigorous dynamic microeconomic foundation. The seminal work of Laursen and Metzler (1950) suggests that the employment-isolation effect under the flexible exchange rate system is imperfect even if international capital mobility is completely prohibited. Assuming a small country model instead of the two countr...

The paper analyzes the effect of economic incentives in the AFDC program on the employment of AFDC mothers. Multiple regression analysis is applied to cross-sectional aggregate state program data for 1967. Our estimates indicate that the level of guarantees, tax rates and set-asides affect AFDC employment rates in the direction predicted by economic theory. Short of a drastic reduction in guara...

an upward trend in the divorce rate in iran in recent years has attracted officials, researchers and sociologists towards investigating causes and factors contributing such a social menace. based on the statistics published by the statistics center of iran (sci), the divorce rate has gone up from 1.5 in 1000 cases in 1996 to 2.3 in 1999 and 3.1 in 2006. results of previous studies show that fac...

In this paper we examine the relationship between disability and paid employment in the context of recent policy changes associated with the former government’s ‘welfare-to-work’ package. We consider the question about whether a high level of disability income provision increases or decreases the risk of people being outside the labour market. The conventional assumption in welfare reform debat...

Background. Severe obesity is a risk factor for lower participation in paid work, but whether employment increases and sick leave decreases after obesity surgery is not well documented. Methods. We assessed 224 Norwegian patients with severe obesity (mean age: 40; mean BMI: 49; 61% female) regarding employment status (working versus not working) and the number of days of sick leave during the p...

In Mr. Cyril Burt's valuable?or invaluable?work on "The Distribution and Relations of Educational Abilities," the following rule is laid down (p. 11):? ' 'The educational progress of ' 'defectives'' follows an average rate of about half a class (grade or standard) per annum?a rate of progress which is about half that of ordinary elementary school children. With defectives, educational developme...

BACKGROUND In Japan, Job assistance for SMI have been not active. Compared with mental retardation, employment rate of SMI was low. The needs of the effective job assistance for SMI are growing. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the combination approach of Cognitive Remediation (CR) and Supported Employment (SE) in clinical outcomes, including cognitive functioning...

In this paper, we introduce a new sampling plan based on the defective proportion of batch. The proposed sampling plan is based on the distribution function of the proportion defective. A continuous loss function is used to quantify deviations between the proportion defective and its acceptance quality level (AQL).  For practical purpose, a sensitivity analysis is carried out on the different v...

In 2011 Wisconsin adopted the Manufacturing and Agriculture Credit (MAC), which provides credits which largely offset the taxes faced by businesses in those sectors in the state. While manufacturing employment has grown since the MAC took effect in 2013, how much of these gains were due to the credit is under debate. To isolate the policy effect, I focus on counties on either side of the Wiscon...

The paper studies simple strategies of labor tax reform in a search and matching model of the labor market featuring endogenous labor supply. Changing the composition of the tax wedge—that is, reducing a payroll tax and increasing a progressive wage tax such that the marginal tax wedge remains unaffected—increases employment, reduces the equilibrium unemployment rate, and increases public reven...