Patterns of Integration: Low Educated People and their Jobs in Norway, Italy and Hungary The paper looks at how the distribution of jobs by complexity and firms’ willingness to hire low educated labor for jobs of different complexity contribute to unskilled employment in Norway, Italy and Hungary. In search of how unqualified workers can attend complex jobs, it compares their involvement in var...

What are the impacts of free trade agreement on the social welfare of different groups of labor force in a developed country? What is the impact of free trade on a developed country’s income disparity? What is the effect of free trade on the skill distribution of a developed country? The objective of this paper is to address the above questions in a simple two-sector generalequilibrium North-So...

The aim of this study was to analyse the role of differences in alcohol consumption and other risk factors for alcoholism established in late adolescence, for later differences in the distribution of alcoholism between social classes among young men. Data on risk factors in childhood and adolescence, e.g. risk use of alcohol, was collected among 49,323 men, born 1949-1951, at conscription for c...

The construction industry of Estonia has experienced a period of economic growth which has started to turn down for now and the output forecasts state that this recess will continue. While the availability of unskilled workforce will be growing, the lack of high quality skills in the labour market is becoming even more acute when, after joining EU, skilled construction craftsmen have a choice o...

In a model of education, where individuals are exposed to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled sector, successful graduation depends both on individual effort to study and on public resources. We show that insuring these risks is a dichotomic task: Wage risk is diversified among the skilled by graduate taxation and skill-contingent loans. Educational risk of failure is mitigated...

We model a labor market in which workers' level of education might be a signal of skills. We show that whenever the wage premium for education increases over time – as it might happen under skill biased technological progress – the investment in education needed to sustain a separating equilibrium in which skilled workers perfectly signal their type, also increases. Hence, an increase in the ed...

Few skilled workers in the UK have flexible working time – GPs are exception most can only choose between unemployment, or full-time work, which has changed little recent years, while part work is mainly unskilled. This market rigidity imposes major welfare losses, contrast to flexibility of worktime for all Netherlands, best work-life balance. Stagnating real wages and rising employer power in...

The purpose of this study was to provide basic quantitative data to minimize the injury occurring during forward breakfall by the comparative analysis of biomechanical factors through 3D motion analysis, analysis of ground reaction force, and EMG analysis of the forward breakfall of the martial arts targeting 10 skilled and 10 unskilled subjects. In this study, three-dimensional motion analysis...