The general aim of this research is the study of transitions from education and into the labour market among youths under a simultaneous framework in order to control for the interdependency of such relevant events. An extended version of the human capital model has been applied using the European Community Household Panel. The empirical strategy has aimed at reflecting the independent and simu...

This paper investigates the gender wage gap in Denmark, the Netherlands, France and Spain by boostrapping the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. The boostrap method is used to compute confidence intervals and to perform hypothesis tests for the (disaggregated) explained and unexplained components of the national earnings differentials between men and women. From the subset of paid employees selected...

On page 1077, Machado et al. reveal a new way in which aspirin reins in inflammation— it triggers the destruction of proinflammatory signaling proteins. Aspirin's power was initially attributed to its inhibition of proinflammatory lipids called prostaglandins— a discovery that won the Nobel Prize in 1982. Later, aspirin was also shown to beef up levels of lipids called lipoxins, which help reso...