The National Establishment Time Series (NETS) is a private sector source of U.S. business microdata. Researchers have used state-specific NETS extracts for many years, but relatively little is known about the accuracy and representativeness of the nationwide NETS sample. We explore the...

The theme of the article is the changing role of industry in the economy of the countries of the Visegrád Group, further referred to as V4. The goal of the research is to delimit the regularities in terms of changes of the importance of industrial activity in the economy of the region in the...

Le analisi presentate nel Quaderno evidenziano che il Paese arriva all'appuntamento con il federalismo ereditando un divario geografico particolarmente pronunciato in termini di sviluppo economico. Alla vigilia delle riforma federalista, l'indice di dipendenza strutturale per area geografica...

There are determined the material conditions of the functioning of agriculture and peculiarities of implementation of work activity by people from rural areas in conditions of formation of the food security system of Ukraine.

This paper puts forward a methodology to rank the population along a hierarchical continuum, from a lower level to a higher level of social precariousness. Going beyond the complex layered issues related to the concept of poverty, it rather explores the notion of deprivation with the idea of...

This study examines the dynamic effects of national, regional, and local labor market shocks on labor force participation rates (LFPR) in Appalachia. We use a dynamic factor model with timevarying loading parameters and stochastic volatility to explore the synchronicity and divergence between...

This paper identifies the main forces that contributed to the decline in labor force participation in New England between 2007 and 2015, as well as the forces that moderated the region?s decline relative to that of the nation. This exercise contributes to an assessment of the outlook for...

Women's position in the labour market is quite vulnerable and they face widespread discrimination, especially in the informal sector. This position is changing, both quantitatively and qualitatively, and there is a marked trend towards feminisation of workforce. This paper focuses on this...

Assessments of the relationship among law, innovation, and economic growth often begin with one or more propositions of law or law practice and predict how changes might affect innovation or business practice. This approach is problematic when applied to questions of regional economic...

The role education plays in employment and social status’ has always garnered attention. The swelling unemployment of the educated has prevented Kerala from reaping the full social and economic benefits of its educational development. Unemployment is to be understood not merely as the denial...