Exploiting Australia's National Service lotteries of 1965 to 1972, I estimate the effect of army service on employment outcomes. Population data from military personnel records, tax returns, veterans' compensation records, and the Census facilitate a rich and precise analysis, identified by 53,000 complying conscripts. The estimated employment effect is -12 percentage points (95% CI: -13, -11) ...

The number of disability exits has been increasing in recent years, raising questions both about the well being of affected individuals, and about how to finance the related disability pensions. Using a longitudinal database owned by the Swedish National Social Insurance Board, this study analyzes the risk to exit into disability at a certain age, assuming that people remained in the labor forc...

Linking China’s interest in the maritime waters arises from the geo-strategic importance of Sea Lines of Communications (SLOCs) vital to the oil supply of the country. China is building strategic relationships and developing a naval capability to establish a forward presence along the SLOCs that connect China to the Middle East and to Africa. The entire stretch includes South China Sea, Indian ...

multi-word lexical units are a typical feature of specialized dictionaries, in particular monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. the paper studies the concept of the multi-word lexical unit and considers the similarities and differences of their selection and presentation in monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. the work analyses such issues as the classification of multi-w...

An add-on tool to be applied to COSMO-Skymed high resolution SAR images to improve maritime surveillance capabilities is here described. The proposed processing performs maritime targets detection, targets extraction and refocusing in an automatic, semi-automatic and manual manner. A deep knowledge of radar processing is not needed since an intuitive Graphic User Interface (GUI) guides the user...

the present research has been done with the aim of determine the relationship between intellectual capital and employee performance of ports and maritime organization. statistical population of the present study includes head office employees of tehran ports and maritime organization. the statistical population is 140 people, 103 samples were selected according to morgan table. in this research...

This paper sheds light on Maritime Education and Competence Development which has been investigated in various studies, both within and outside Europe. However, the topic is under-researched and stil l in need of attention, in order to ensure that competences are aligned with technological advancements and the needs that exist in a contemporary maritime industry. It is furthermore paramount tha...

The main feature of the political relations, developed among coastal states with strong interests over North Pole region and Arctic Ocean, have been frequent interstate disputes last fifty years, as well efforts these during this period to cooperate in so that sovereignty sovereign rights each state turn into a common benefit for entire international community. Consequently, are considered fund...