Despite the widespread use of RIASEC interest inventories, little is known about whether these inventories actually measure same core constructs and provide similar career recommendations to individuals. This study investigates construct validity among four major inventories—the Self-Directed Search (SDS), O*NET Interest Profiler (IP), ACT Inventory (UNIACT), Strong (SII). Results showed that s...

We find that raw materials inventories in the manufacturing sector in the 1970s and 1980s were two to three times higher in developing countries than in the United States, despite the fact than in most developing countries real interest rates are at least twice as high. Those significantly high levels of inventories are a burden and an obstacle to country competitiveness and need to be addresse...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of the severity of a child's chronic condition on family functioning from the perspectives of mothers and fathers and to compare their reports with the functioning of families with healthy children. METHODS Mothers and fathers in two-parent families of 160 infants and 102 pre-adolescents with a wide range of chronic health conditions (noncategorical approach) c...

• We show in a structural VAR that TFP news shocks generate positive comovement of all macroeconomic aggregates and especially inventories. Standard shock models with inventories cannot explain this fact due to the strength intertemporal substitution channel. derive conditions required procyclical inventory response by using wedges approach. suggest develop framework knowledge capital these fin...