It is proved that the core in a general setting for cooperative games is equal to the set of subgame perfect equilibria of a noncooperative game of competing contracts. A coalitional deviation in a cooperative game corresponds to, in the noncooperative game, the involved agents’ participation in a contract proposed by a deviating principal. ∗Department of Economics, Iowa State University, 260 H...

In this paper, we investigate the costs borne by both male and female carers in terms of their forgone formal employment opportunities. Traditionally, informal care was supplied by women but nowadays women are not only more likely to work, but also likely to be significant contributors to family finances. For women, this implies that the size of any forgone earnings cost of informal care is inc...

The application of mobile technologies to learning has the potential to facilitate the active participation of learners in the creation and delivery of content. They can also provide a powerful connection between a variety of formal and informal learning contexts and can

This article examined the likelihood of reducing and/or ceasing leisure activities, reasons for these changes, and the relationship between caregivers' characteristics, caregiving experiences, and leisure participation among a sample of 517 informal caregivers of Adult Day Care clients in Manitoba, Canada. Reduction and cessation of leisure activities were considered separately and in combinati...

This article analyses the effect of job quality on pathways to productive activities of older workers in Europe. Using comparative panel data from SHARE, we analyse the medium term effects of working conditions of workers aged 50-64 on three participation outcomes (staying in employment, participating in social activities, and providing informal care) with a trivariate probit model. Several asp...

Self-help groups are an important, but often neglected, resource in primary care. This paper reports the preliminary findings of a study of the origins and natural history of self-help groups in Liverpool, and considers the role for general practitioners in mobilizing resources to facilitate community participation in health through this diverse, and informal, sector of the health care system.

In this paper, we describe methods for the analysis and design of Cooperative Object-oriented Information Systems. These methods involve users in the development of general Information Systems much more than traditional ones like Metrica or UML. We introduce a set of cooperative tools, based on a powerful and user friendly graphic interface that facilitates user participation in new stages of s...

This research was conducted to study the effect of gender inequality on social participation of women. The method used in this research was Ex-Post Facto and survey method. The statistical population included female students in different fields of faculty of humanities and faculty of training sciences and psychology (Islamic Azad University) Garmsar Branch in 2012-2013. Research instruments inc...