"This volumes comes out of a symposium, sponsored by the Society for Risk Analysis and the National Science Foundation, which explored practical methods and robust theories of risk communication arising from recent research in risk perception, neuroscience, and the evolutionary social sciences. The symposium addressed how humans process and perceive uncertainty and risks. The purpose of the symposium was to synthesize the findings from t ..."
"employment of labour, measured in normalised efficiency units (NEUs). These
are labour units for which the value marginal product is equalised between
sectors, and equal to w∗. Measuring labour units in this way simplifies the
analysis dramatically, as the two adjustment margins present in the labour market
are collapsed into one, namely the economy-wide employment of NEUs of labour
. Using the definition of Le, equation (5.3) can b ..."
"This book explores theoretical developments of trade models, examining labour mobility, unemployment and training in models of international trade, as well as migration and labour markets, the wage and unemployment impacts of adjustment, adjustment and occupational mobility, exchange rate fluctuations and trade exposure, fragmentation and the labour market."