We construct a simple model incorporating various urban labour market phenomena obtaining in developing economies, and we give a diagrammatic formulation of the market equilibrium. Our initial formulation assumes an integrated labour market and allows for entrepreneurship, self-employment, and wage employment. We then introduce labour market segmentation. In equilibrium voluntary and involuntar...

One of the consequences of ineffective governments is that they leave space for unlicensed and unregulated informal providers without formal training to deliver a large proportion of health services. Without institutions that facilitate appropriate health care transactions, patients tend to navigate health care markets from one inappropriate provider to another, receiving sub-optimal care, befo...

This paper presents an approach to applying a visual annotation system for informal learning through knowledge exchange between physicians in post-graduate training in general medicine. The system is part of an online platform for creating and sharing physician-generated medical cases from their work practice. Collaborative visual annotations of medical images are used to support knowledge exch...

BACKGROUND Faced with increased public spending for care, knowledge of the determinants of the choices between informal and formal care is of particular importance for estimating the need for care in the future. METHODS Using a representative sample of Spanish dependent elderly from the Disabilities, Independence and Dependency Situations Survey (DIDSS) 2008, we compare the factors associated...

The Effects of Cooperation: A Structural Model of Siblings’ Caregiving Interactions This paper analyzes the decision making process of adult children to provide informal care to their parents. First, we develop a structural model to explain the amount of time that only children (without siblings) spend on providing care, taking into account opportunity costs in terms of time and money. The mode...

The workplace is increasingly recognised as a legitimate environment for learning new skills and knowledge that enables workers to participate more effectively in ever-changing work environments. Within the workplace there is the potential for continuous learning to occur not only through formal learning initiatives that are associated with training, but also through informal learning opportuni...

New guidelines for training in neuropsychology are needed for several reasons: increased diagnostic accuracy of neuroradiologic techniques; an increasing need for functional neuropsychologicul evaluations; emergence of other psychological specialties; and managed care/economic factors. Current INS-Division 40 guidelines emphasize neurological and diagnostic areas with minimal suggestions for tr...

INTRODUCTION Relationships between people with health problems and their partners, families and friends are usually described as 'informal care'. Using a qualitative examination of older people's descriptions of their relationships with partners or other significant friends or relatives at times of change in health and mobility (walking), we questioned whether 'informal care' is an appropriate ...

State-of-the-art Chinese word segmentation systems typically exploit supervised models trained on a standard manually-annotated corpus, achieving performances over 95% on a similar standard testing corpus. However, the performances may drop significantly when the same models are applied onto Chinese microtext. One major challenge is the issue of informal words in the microtext. Previous studies...