This paper examine Lilien’s sectoral shifts hypothesis for Japan for different age cohorts. Previous studies of the sectoral shifts hypothesis for Japan have for the most part concentrated on the relationship between aggregate unemployment and sectoral shifts, and are typically not supportive of the hypothesis. However, recent increases in the unemployment rates of the young and the aged sugges...

We examine the relationship between market structure and the persistence of US dollar-based sectoral real exchange rates for 14 OECD countries. Our empirical results based on disaggregated data suggest that differences in market structure significantly determine the rates at which deviations from sectoral purchasing power parity decay. Specifically, industries with a larger price-cost margin ar...

A multisectoral global model was constructed on a 35 I-O sectoral basis in 1995 and has extensively been used for various policy analyses. The model, EITF, covers 29 countries and 7 regions with special reference to G7 and Asian countries. World trade can also be analyzed in the same sectoral categories, enabling the analysis of significant changes in foreign trade consistent with those for sec...

The variation of circular microstrip antenna, a Sectoral microstrip antenna is discussed. The detail analysis to study the effects of antenna parameters like, feed point location and the substrate thickness for Sectoral angle increasing from 270 to 340 on the patch first four resonant modes is presented. The variation in angle tunes the spacing between three patch resonant modes which yields op...

BACKGROUND To reduce its high maternal and neonatal mortality rate and meet Millennium Development Goals four and five, Lao PDR has adopted a national 'Strategy and Planning Framework of Implementation of Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Services'. This paper reports on implementation constraints identified in three demonstration sites. METHODS The objectives of this paper are to analyse h...

‎in this paper‎, ‎we prove the nonexistence of two weighing matrices of‎ ‎weight 81‎, ‎namely $cw(88,81)$ and $cw(99,81)$‎. ‎we will apply two‎ ‎very different methods to do so; for the case of $cw(88,81)$‎, ‎we‎  ‎will use almost purely counting methods‎, ‎while for $cw(99,81)$‎, ‎we‎ ‎will use algebraic methods‎.

What is the impact of fiscal policy on the economy? How large are the “multipliers” of government spending and tax cuts? This old question has recently received considerable attention, in particular in the context of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. I contribute to answering that question by calculating fiscal multipliers in a baseline neoclassical growth model with en...

The purpose of this paper is to identify challenges to cross-sectoral collaboration based on principals in current organization theory regarding organizational boundaries. The boundarymaintenance function enables organizations to maintain sufficient stability and focus for goal attainment. Organizations periodically adjust their boundaries for tactical and strategic purposes, making participati...

Developing countries exhibit a more uncertain economic environment than developed countries. Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay in particular, display high levels of real exchange rate uncertainty. Moreover, a succession of trade agreements among them, culminating in the creation of Mercosur in 1991 have increased intra-regional trade. This paper examines empirically the impact of real-effective-exc...

Existing studies examined the U.S.'s direct GHG emitters and final consumers driving upstream GHG emissions, but overlooked the U.S.'s primary suppliers enabling downstream GHG emissions and relative contributions of socioeconomic factors to GHG emission changes from the supply side. This study investigates GHG emissions of sectors in the U.S. from production-based (direct emissions), consumpti...