The Long-Term Effects of Job Search Requirements: Evidence from the UK JSA Reform This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform of 1996, which implied a major increase in job search requirements for eligibility and in the related administrative hurdle. Search theory predicts that such changes should raise the proportion of ...

The world’s first cities emerged on the plains of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and Syria) in the fourth millennium BC. Attempts to understand this settlement process have assumed revolutionary social change, the disappearance of kinship as a structuring principle, and the appearance of a rational bureaucracy. Most assume cities and state-level social organization were deliberate functional adaptati...

one of the important and essential issues in human life is obtaining substance. property is an obvious instance of sustenance that directly and indirectly affects human body and soul. it may bring about spiritual development and perfection. however, corruptions and dependence on property and riches cause people to try to obtain assets by any means, even though illegitimate and illicit ways. bas...