"Before the arrival of the 21st century, Taiwan was widely regarded as a successful model of a country which had not only transformed herself from an under-developed economy into a high-tech industrialised island, but also undergone a revolution from an authoritarian regime to a democratic one....

Recent attention has focused on the UK's productivity gap in the retail sector. Figure 1 shows an estimate of labour productivity in retail across countries, using output per hour worked. The UK lies well behind the US, France and Germany. Reynolds at al (2005) contribute to this debate by...

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labour market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of...