Does increasing incomes improve health? In 1999, the UK government implemented minimum wage legislation, increasing hourly wages to at least £3.60. This policy experiment created intervention and control groups that can be used to assess the effects of increasing wages on health. Longitudinal data were taken from the British Household Panel Survey. We compared the health effects of higher wages...

for press This paper offers some results on the relationship between unemployment benefits and employment in a stochastic framework. The intention is not to provide an exhaustive analysis of this relationship but, rather, to investigate the effects of uncertain unemployment insurance in a unionised economy. Uncertainty about the system of unemployment benefits may be important for those enterin...

ÐIn this paper, we study distributed path reservation protocols for multiplexed all-optical interconnection networks. The path reservation protocols negotiate the reservation and establishment of connections that arrive dynamically to the network. These protocols can be applied to both wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) and time division multiplexing (TDM) networks. Two classes of protocols...

To provide relief to the U.S. labor market following onset of COVID-19 pandemic, CARES Act granted an extra $600 per week in UI benefit payments from late March through July 2020. This unprecedented increase generosity raised concern that recipients would be largely unwilling accept job offers, slowing recovery. Job acceptance decisions weigh value a against remaining unemployed. A reservation ...

the main purpose of this article is to determine the nature and effects of reservation of title clauses in iranian law. to bring out the exact comprehension of its nature in iranian law, the study of the matter in other legal systems is required. although it is not always easy to pass upon the question of validity of these clauses in iranian law, by highlighting the security interest in such co...

In multimedia wireless networks, when a mobile host (MH) moves to a neighbor cell, it requests the base station (BS) to reserve the bandwidth for seamless handoff. The reservation scheme based on the fixed 2-tier cell structure was proposed to prevent the reservation requests from the MHs close to the BSs. In this reservation scheme, the BS requests the reservation only when the MH is outside o...

Distributed lightpath establishment in WDM optical networks involves, apart from routing, two important steps, namely wavelength selection and wavelength reservation. In uni-wavelength reservation protocols, often multiple connection requests unknowingly compete for the same wavelength, even when other free wavelengths are available, resulting in a collision. Attempting multiple wavelengths for...

Do Reservation Wages Really Decline? Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model, repeated observations on the same individual provide ...

This paper describes and evaluates distributed wavelength reservation protocols for all{optical WDM networks. These protocols are essential for applying WDM techniques to large scale all{optical networks. The protocols ensure that the wavelengths on the links along a path are reserved before communication takes place. A message is transmitted using the reserved wavelengths and remains in the op...