to volunteer for certain jobs in private industries. Additionally, it would have allowed the private sale of inmate … inmate labor in areas where labor shortages existed, and allowed penal authorities to enter into service contracts with …

wide cross-country variation in employment and earnings gaps at age 30. At age 50, however, employment gaps between mothers … and non-mothers have closed in most countries. We also observe convergence in employment gaps between mothers and fathers … by age 50, but these gaps do not close altogether. Motherhood gaps in earnings also close by age 50 between mothers and …

States and other developed countries, research indicates that both earnings and book value are important predictors of equity … valuation. In Turkey, earnings appears to have information content but earnings, by itself, appears to be declining in … risky environment of Turkey, where future value of earnings is quite uncertain, investors may be paying less attention to …

. The lead lag model suggests that earnings forecasts may be made based on the model presented in this study. …

, 142) on the characteristics of financial analysts' earnings forecasts after mergers. Specifically, I predict lower … business combinations before those accounting changes. Study results present strong evidence that earnings forecast errors for … that lower earnings forecast errors are attributable to factors specific to merging companies such as SFAS 141, 142 but not …

, enterprise age, and workers' methods of finding employment as proxies for the extent of market liberalization. We find both the …

distribution of employment of women across sectors of the economy (formal versus informal) and across industries (agriculture … versus non-agriculture), unemployment, and earnings. Overall we document substantial progress made by women in many areas … higher earnings than those of men. Women’s share of household labor earnings rose from 28% in the early 1990’s to 30% in the …

this on subsequent earnings. Using the Australian Youth Survey (AYS) a longitudinal survey of Australian youth, we estimate … the effects of unemployment on subsequent hourly and weekly earnings. The estimates suggest that, when unobserved … other hand, even relatively small amounts of unemployment history are associated with weekly earnings losses. The effects of …