The interrelation between changes in the economic structure, i.e., industrial distribution of income and labor force, and the size distribution of income i s studied in this paper in a case study of India (1951-1980). The change in the size distribution of income i s the sum of changes due to ( 1 ) inter-sectoral factors and ( 2 ) intra-sectoral factors. The need for this distinction i s emphas...

ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the concentration in different Brazilian insurance lines of business (LOB) and analyze effects on premium revenues profitability. There is evidence that market holds main characteristics an oligopoly. Theoretical approach: it based Industrial Organization, a field Economics dedicated studying structure, importance, arrangement firms, addition impacts derived from...

this paper examines the lewis theory of structural change in iran in the period 1974-2005. where labor productivity growth and the intensive use of labor occurs via reallocation of labor between sectors or spillovers in the production from the manufacturing or service sectors to agriculture resulting to convergence. assessing whether productivity gap is reducing or increasing, takes us to the n...

Latecomer sectors in late-industrializing economies follow different patterns in their development and growth processes, which largely determine the share acquired from the global value chain. The development and growth process of the sectors are generally argued to be the result of the interaction of a macro-level specific institutional context (e.g., system of intellectual property rights, la...

Development agencies are in a period of major refocusing. On the one hand, the information and communications technology revolution, globalisation and the rise of knowledge economies lead them to develop new knowledge management systems. On the other, commitments to partnership, greater inter-agency coordination and the emphasis on sectoral and cross-sectoral planning fundamentally reorient the...

IT is the general opinion that, in eyes suffering from closed-angle glaucoma, goniosynechiae are not uncommon, especially if such eyes have had an acute or sub-acute attack of hypertension. The present investigation has been undertaken to ascertain whether these goniosynechiae are distributed at random round the angle or, as clinical impression suggests, tend to occur more in the upper than the...

The aim of this study is to analyse differences and similarities in industrial relations systems in nine sectors across the European member states to identify the prospects of the European Sectoral Social Dialogue (ESSD). Industrial relations in Europe are characterised by increasing diversity within national systems and by functional convergence between them. Increased diversification is cause...

The assumption of linearity is tested using six statistical tests for the US unemployment rate and four employment sectoral shares growth rates; construction, finance, manufacturing and trade. An AR(p) model was used to remove any linear structure from the series. Strong evidence of non-linearity was found for the unemployment rate and the sectoral shares across the six statistical tests.