The variations in reproductive outcome according to marital and social status are of major interest in many countries. It has however been suggested recently in Sweden that socio-economic characteristics do not in general have a substantial effect on reproductive performance. It is noted that...

Entrepreneurs typically live with the ever present threat of business failure arising from limited financial resources and aggressive competition in the marketplace. Under these circumstances, conflicting priorities arise and the entrepreneur is thus faced with certain dilemmas. In seeking to...