We examine the implications of tax and subsidy policies for employment in the “three worlds of welfare”, Anglo-Saxon, Continental European and Scandinavian. We argue that home production is key to a proper evaluation of the employment outcomes. Anglo-Saxon low-support policies encourage more overall market employment. Continental transfer policies encourage more home production in services with...

he modernization project launched by the West two centuries ago, was based on three pillars: State-logic, Capital-logic and Ratio-logic; formulated in part by Montesquieu (France), Smith (Britain) and Kant (Germany). The logic of the State implied centralization of coercive power, tempered by democracy. The logic of Capital implied market forces for economic power, tempered by anti-monopoly cla...

We examine the implications of tax and subsidy policies for employment in the “three worlds of welfare”, Anglo-Saxon, Continental European and Scandinavian. We argue that home production is key to a proper evaluation of the employment outcomes. Anglo-Saxon lowsupport policies encourage more overall market employment. Continental transfer policies encourage more home production in services with ...

up a group of some importance. Rickham (1952) has estimated that up to 950 babies are born in Great Britain each year with congenital defects amenable to surgery and the obstructions form a large part of these. This subject has been well discussed in several recent articles (Gross, 1953; Jolleys, 1952; Santulli, 1954; Swain and France, 1954, etc.). In this paper I wish to refer to particular as...

International experts were invited by WHO to join an international team, which visited Riyadh 4-9 June 2013. The joint Saudi/WHO team comprised officials from the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and experts from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and public health institutions and hospitals in...

Since the late 1980s there has been renewed international interest in sexual health, corresponding with the advent and spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrone (AIDS). Many countries have conducted national surveys of sexual health risk factors and behaviours, to collect reliable information about sexual behaviour to predict and control the spread of H...

In this research, we analyze the evolution of the international air transportation country network from 2002 to 2013 with two perspectives: The network’s physical topology and the functional network with traffic information. Our analysis shows that the network is scale-free and has the small-world property. The evolution of triadic properties suggests that the network gears towards symmetric, t...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an initial synthetical analysis of the lessons to be drawn from the study of the diffusion of organizational innovations in European firms. This study is based on the exploitation of four major nationwide surveys that were respectively carried out in Germany, Great Britain, Denmark and France. Thus, the present working paper intends to complete and extend...