This paper uses longitudinal data from a survey of youth in three areas (Hamilton, Halifax and rural Nova Scotia) to examine the factors that affect young adults' participation in postsecondary education, applying Bourdieu's notions of capital and habitus. Data were…

As British Columbia's economy is increasingly shaped by post-industrial circumstances, it becomes necessary for that province, like others in Canada, to ensure that it has an adequate supply of workers with "new economy" knowledge and skills. How best to prepare…

Los cambios ocurridos en el
mundo contemporáneo afectan todos
los órdenes de la vida individual y
colectiva en una sociedad determinada,
caracterizada por mutaciones complejas
que propenden a crear incertidumbre
sobre normas, costumbres, valores y
procesos establecidos. Estas urgencias
plantean…

La investigación revisa
una parte de la bibliografía no
especializada que interesa para
el estudio de la historia de la
arquitectura y el urbanismo de San
Cristóbal. En esta oportunidad nos
ocuparemos de lo escrito por seis
autores: Juvenal Anzola…

This paper offers an explanation of rationally contracts where incompeteness refers to unforeseen contingencies. Agents enter a relationship with two-sided moral hazard in which a commitment to discard parts of the joint resources may be ex ante efficient.

In this paper, we test a version of the conditional CAPM with respect to a local market portfolio, proxied by the Brazilian stock index during the 1976-1992 period. We also test a conditional APT model by using the difference between…

By reporting his satisfaction with his job or any other experience, an individual does not communicate the number of utils that he feels. Instead, he expresses his posterior preference over available alternatives conditional on acquired knowledge of the past. This…

In the last decade, the potential macroeconomic effects of intermittent large adjustments in microeconomic decision variables such as prices, investment, consumption of durables or employment – a behavior which may be justified by the presence of kinked adjustment costs –…