Industrial production is both highly variable and correlated across sectors. This correlation arises in part from common or aggregate shocks and from sector-specific shocks that propagate across sectors via input-output linkages or other complementarities in production. Using factor analytic...

“Iterated” multiperiod ahead time series forecasts are made using a one-period ahead model, iterated forward for the desired number of periods, whereas “direct” forecasts are made using a horizon-specific estimated model, where the dependent variable is the multi-period ahead value being...

"Women's careers have been a topic of research and discussion in many disciplines including sociology, business, industrial, organisational and vocational psychology, and career guidance. Despite the introduction of equal employment legislation in many countries, women's patterns of career...

Intro -- CAREER DEVELOPMENT: GLOBAL ISSUES AND CHALLENGES -- PROFESSIONS - TRAINING, EDUCATION AND DEMOGRAPHICS -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCING THE AUTHORS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CAREER DEVELOPMENT: 21ST CENTURY GLOBAL ISSUES...

This special report outlines how Moody's will use the new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosure rules on executive pay to evaluate a board's decision-making with respect to the structure, size and focus of pay-related performance incentives. Executive pay is incorporated into...

Vocational guidance fits industrial societies and career counseling suits corporate cultures. However, neither guidance nor counseling seems to be the best practice for career intervention in the global economy of the information era. Thus, the emergence of career construction theory for...