The recent halt of women’s gains in labor force participation ended a decades-long process during which women would postpone marriage and having children until later and later in life. Not any longer. The age at which a Danish woman has her first child has virtually not changed since the early 2000s, for example. This paper examines the role of globalization in the family-market work decision. ...

User acceptance plays a pivotal role in success of all IS projects. Yet, most of the e-government endeavors worldwide have fallen short of their potential. Online transactions with public administrations are plagued with concerns of data protection and privacy resulting in reluctance to engage in egovernment. Although trust is confirmed to be an effective instrument for dealing with the anxiety...

Authoring of personalized multimedia content can be considered as a process consisting of selecting, composing, and assembling media elements into coherent multimedia presentations that meet the user’s or user group’s preferences, interests, current situation, and environment. In the approaches we find today, media items and semantically rich metadata information are used for the selection and ...

We create an environment in which congestion forces agents to match inefficiently early. We then introduce one of two centralized clearinghouse mechanisms. One of these has been successfully used to halt this kind of unraveling in a number of labor markets, while the other has failed. When it is costly for Žrms andworkers to bemismatched comparedwith the costs of matching early, the experimenta...

This clinical trial shows remarkable results.Not only was it shown that the use of IQAir® HyperHEPA® filtration systems could halt the deterioration of allergy symptoms, but that they can also lead to a reduction in symptoms. It is especially noteworthy that IQAir® achieves this result without any short or long-term side effects which are often observed with allergy drugs. This clinical trial a...

T he term 'sustainable devel-opment' dates back to the early 1970s when certain business and government leaders began to argue that exponential growth —in human populations and industrial-ization — simply cannot continue indefinitely. One such group of leaders, the Club of Rome, issued a report, Limits to Growth, now recognized as a cornerstone piece of literature for the movement. In a tone so...

We examine and compare the role of China’s financial system in supporting the growth of firms and the economy with that in other countries, and explore directions of future development. First, we find that the current financial system is dominated by a large but inefficient banking sector. Reducing the amount of non-performing loans among the major banks to normal levels is the most important o...

Observations made with the VLBA have led to fundamental advances in our understanding of how radio jets in AGN evolve from parsec-scales out to distances exceeding several hundred kiloparsecs. In this review I discuss current models of young radio source evolution, as well as the observational evidence for a rapid change in jet properties on scales of ∼ 1 kpc. A central topic of current debate ...

This note is a response to an unpublished paper by Evans and Thomas (1998) of which we have recently become aware. Evans and Thomas (1998) take issue with a paper that we published some years back on ‘Cooperation and Effective Computability’ in repeated games (Anderlini and Sabourian 1995). In that paper we showed that it is only the cooperative equilibria of an infinitely repeated two-player c...