Conventional methods for analysing worker flows often focus on gross flows or transition probabilities. This is not necessarily informative for identifying the scale of labour ‘adjustment’ in an economy in the sense of the expansion and decline of industries. We develop a method that relates...

Chen (1999) proposed an economic design, using Taguchi's quality loss function, for choosing a producer's lower specification limit eta for a product with a quality characteristic that has an exponential distribution with mean θ and 'the larger the better' tolerance. Chen (1999) developed an...

This paper investigates labor-market responses to trade liberalization in an industrializing country. Short- and long-run responses of employment and wages are examined using a specific factor trade model, which underpins the empirical work. Employment and wage equations are estimated using...

This paper examines the impact of mergers and acquisitions on the remuneration of the CEOs in a large unbalanced panel of UK firms, over the period 1981-1996. We find significant and substantial executive pay increases in excess of those generated by the growth in firm size consequent upon the...

Within the Knowledge Management context, there is growing interest in computer support for group knowledge sharing and the role that Communities of Practice play in this. Communities of Practice are groups of individuals with a common purpose and who share some background, language or...