We measure country welfare by an index number calculated from welfare components like GDP per capita and expected length of life. We rank countries from high to low welfare using such estimated welfare indices. In such calculation the chosen welfare components, the procedures used to normalize...

During a period, an Unemployment Fund (UF) handles members and beneficiaries, at a cost. In this, they are more or less efficient. Four optimizations indicate that the aggregate cost may be reduced by as much as 35 per cent. In the process, the inefficient UFs are identified. Moreover, the...

Established analyses of labour market commuting are based on random choice models and gravity type models. In these models generalised transport costs are formulated as exponential or log-linear distance dependent functions. This paper presents empirical observations, which imply that time...

This article investigates how time distances within and between municipalities determine the spatial extent of local and regional labor markets. As time distances change, the extent of the labor market will also change. Diminishing time distances will bring about increases in labor market size...