Article history: Received 3 March 2010 Available online 3 November 2010 JEL classification: L22 L51 O31 O38

Abstract Introduction The first national lockdown was imposed in Ireland from 27th March 2020, to combat the spread of Coronavirus. All non-essential travel, businesses, sporting activities and schools were closed. elderly advised cocoon. roadmap easing restrictions started May. measures resulted people spending more time indoors, with impact on social personal wellbeing. This had potential inc...

This paper presents a procedure for studying industrial performance and related issues such as changes in the wage structure. This procedure combines cluster analysis and discriminant analysis as a package, and applies this package to time series data. This enables us to organize industrial data into groups with similar wage or performance histories and then to extract summary time-series showi...

Gene clusters for biosynthesis of 24 of 34 basic O-antigen forms of Shigella spp. are identical or similar to those of the genetically closely related bacterium Escherichia coli. For 18 of these relatedness was confirmed chemically by elucidation of the O-antigen (O-polysaccharide) structures. In this work, structures of the six remaining O-antigens of E. coli O32, O53, O79, O105, O183 (all rel...

A felelőssegteljes kutatas es innovacio letrejottenek celja, hogy uj perspektivakat kinaljon a kutatas-fejlesztes (K  F I) folyamatanak eredmenyeinek kezelesere. szakpolitikai tudomanyos teruleten egyarant egyre nagyobb hangsulyt kap. Bar meglehetősen fogalomnak tekinthető, az altala leirt problema korantsem keletű: tobb evtizedre visszavezethető gyokere, azonban europai unios szakpolitikaban ...

We construct a model where the equilibrium organization of firms changes as an economy approaches the world technology frontier. In vertically integrated firms, owners (managers) have to spend time both on production and innovation activities, and this creates managerial overload, and discourages innovation. Outsourcing of some production activities mitigates the managerial overload, but create...

This paper explores the impact of domestic and international cash transfers on poverty household resilience in Togo from a comparative perspective. The uses data two surveys (The Unified Questionnaire Basic Well-being Indicators) conducted by National Institute Statistics Economic Demographic Studies 2011 2015. analysis propensity score matching method quantile instrumental regression. first ca...