This paper analyzes the relationship between long-term care provision and the average individual wage rate. In addition, the effects of the number of hours spent on caregiving on the probability of employment as well as on the number of hours worked are examined. Data from the Survey of Health,...

Socio-ecological transitions are a main project, current EU policies, national environmental politics, and regional as well as local action address. Manifold approaches exist and the European Union is anxious to coordinate and facilitate the process of a consolidated transition. Therefore, a...

On top of the sovereign debt crisis in the European Union, demographic change is exerting enormous pressure on public finances. We analyse four policy options: lowering pension benefits, increasing labour market participation of the native population, immigration and participation of older...

In order to study the effect of sector-specific regulation on industry behavior and market outcome, regulatory density must be measured. The "Polynomics Telecommunication Regulation Index 2012" aims to provide such a measure for telecommunications. It is based on coded answers to almost 30...

From time to time, economies undergo far-reaching structural changes. In this paper we investigate the consequences of structural breaks in the factor loadings for the specification and estimation of factor models based on principal components and suggest test procedures for structural breaks....

This paper approaches some of the issues about relationship between two economic powers, E.U. and U.S. In this paper I tried to do an analysis at the macroeconomic level between the U.S. and E.U.. These two economic powers do not have long historical economic connection but I am sure that this...

The core idea of the paper is to empirically assess the effect of Euro-Dollar Exchange rate on chosen macroeconomic variables, like, real output, price level, and money supply of Pakistan. We applied VAR based approaches to find the relation among the said variables due to high reliance on...

The core idea of the paper is to empirically assess the effect of Euro-Dollar Exchange rate on chosen macroeconomic variables, like, real output, price level, and money supply of Pakistan. We applied VAR based approaches to find the relation among the said variables due to high reliance on...

In this Dissertation the empirical results of the multivariate analysis of investigation of the key drivers of Banks performance and comparative analysis of the Banking industry profitability in the UK and the USA in the years preceding, during, and after global financial crisis - from 2005 to...

On top of the sovereign debt crisis in the European Union, demographic change is exerting enormous pressure on public finances. We analyze four policy options: lowering pension benefits, increasing labor market participation of the native population, immigration and participation of older...