This paper analyses how demographic changes of the labour force affect demand. Do firms adjust their hiring behaviour to an ageing society? Combining data at firm level and administrative district level, we analyse firms. Our findings suggest that with workforce hire relatively more older workers. Since willingness workers also increases share unemployed, propensity employ people does generally...

The common wisdom at the end of the 20th century was that the United States was training too many specialists, including cardiologists.1 By 2001, however, there was increasing evidence that the supply of cardiologists was not meeting the growing demand. That year, as presidentelect of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), I appointed a task force to evaluate cardiology workforce. The task f...

[preliminary – do not quote without permission] Abstract: This paper uses a large-scale experiment to estimate the effect of vouchers for childcare on the mothers' labour force participation and the use of childcare in Finland. The private childcare voucher acted as a significant boost for new childcare entrepreneurs to enter the market thus increasing the overall childcare provision in the mun...

Intermittent demand patterns are characterised by infrequent demand arrivals coupled with variable demand sizes. Such patterns prevail in many industrial applications, including IT, automotive, aerospace and military. An intuitively appealing strategy to deal with such patterns from a forecasting perspective is to aggregate demand in lower-frequency ‘time buckets’ thereby reducing the presence ...

Muscle endurance measurement using a progressive workload method may reduce pain sensation in the subject. This study aimed to examine the relationships between force-time parameters during sustained static gripping as measured by maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) using either a progressive workload (PW) or a constant workload (CW). Sixteen subjects performed sustained static gripping with 7 ...

This paper considers labour supply and demand shocks in a simple flow model of the labour market. We consider the propagation of these shocks in a matching model with competition between various groups of job seekers. By way of simulations we explore the extent of labour market hysteresis arising from competition between unemployed job seekers and job seekers outside the labour force. The simul...

This paper presents a new methodology, based on the probabilistic approach, for biorhythmic analysis to prevent aviation accidents. The methodology has been developed using the Gaussian distribution technique for reliability evaluation of the aviation system, keeping in mind the biorhythmic effects of the pilot. The normal distributed data of the US Air Force were tested and analysed based on t...

Because of its advantage of zero casualties Unmanned Reconnaissance Aerial Vehicle (URAV) plays an important role in battlefield monitoring and information acquiring, thus caught great attention of the world. URAV is developed fast in our country, yet no scientific assessment methods was ever given due to different fight needs of armed forces. Considering demand of the missile artillery about t...

We present node-centric approaches to hybrid routing for ad hoc networks in which normal nodes are distinguished from special nodes, called netmarks, hosting popular network services or functioning as points of attachment to the Internet. With node-centric hybrid routing, netmarks force other common nodes to maintain routing information for them by advertising their routing information as in ta...