Labor Demand on the Labor Market of Single-Industry Towns in Kuzbass

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

The Long-run Demand for Labor in the Banking Industry

Labor-market Matching, Demand-linkages and the Location of Firms

We incorporate an endogenous choice of qualification into a standard New Economic Geography model: workers can choose to invest time to acquire skills in order to work in the industrial sector and earn a higher wage. Hence, expenditures in a given country depend on the number of firms in that country, giving rise to a standard circular causation mechanism as in Krugman [9]. However, our model r...

Local Labor Demand and Child Labor

This paper uses micro data from the Brazilian PNAD between 1981 and 2002 to ascertain the role of local labor demand play in shaping work and schooling decisions of children aged 10-15. Using male adult employment by state and year as a proxy for labor demand, we find evidence that contrary to the widespread view that child labor is procyclical among young children (ages 1012) employment (schoo...

The nurse labor market.

The national shortage of nurses, which grew to crisis proportions in many communities in the late 1970s, has subsided. Recent evidence suggests that hospital nurse vacancy and turnover rates have declined significantly since 1979. The recent swift reversal in the availability of nurses, from shortage to waiting lists in some hospitals, has taken many by surprise. It also raises the possibility ...