Several types of constraints must be satisfied by schedules of real world sports leagues, e. g. stadium unavailability … constraints are considered as 'soft' ones. There are various models appropriately describing the environment of real sport leagues … here a model which satisfies the demands of many sports leagues. We solve our model by a method which consists in …

with a finite decision. This paper suggests that this agonistic approach needs de-cisions or simply put, temporary … decisions drawn from seeing a decision as a solution for now. A de-cision is not a no-decision, but a decision recognised as … planning process from being a matter of reaching a finite decision to a strife about how to understand the present and which …

current estimates of the output gap in Canada. We begin by assembling a new data base of quarterly realtime output estimates …

Immigrants to Canada enjoy labour market outcomes that are more favourable than those for their counterparts in Sweden …. In an effort to understand these gaps, Canada's immigration policy and outcomes are contrasted to the Swedish immigration … deteriorated significantly in Canada since the 1980s, as they have in many western countries including Sweden. …

universities over the period 1970 through 2001. The individual level data are collected by Statistics Canada from all universities … in Canada and are used to analyze the evolution of male-female wage differentials of professors in Canadian universities …

The research on immigration has found falling labor market outcomes of immigrants in many Western countries. In Canada … foreign work experience for recent immigrant cohorts and now composes the majority of Canada's immigration. It is likely that … enter Canada under. While immigrants for the most part are selected by the government, the selection process for temporary …