This paper examines the profit testing of life insurance companies that issue participating policies, type B and type A … stochastic and modeled by normal or variance gamma distributions. We rely on the stochastic profit testing techniques introduced … the profit testing indicators. We show that the variance gamma model results in more conservative predictions - in a …

The employment structure of India's organised manufacturing sector has undergone substantial changes over the last … has attributed the widespread use of contract labour to India's rigid employment protection legislation. Using plant level …

objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …

India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human … interviews of entrepreneurs and workers across the three largest SEZs (in terms of their contribution to exports and employment …) : SEEPZ, Madras and Noida. The analysis reveals that `employment generation' has been the most important channel through which …

This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period from 1988 to 2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment …, there are long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels …

difficulties. This study explores potential future employment dynamics across European industries and employment groups for the …