Chapter 1 Low-skilled Migration and Altruism: Population ageing has become a common concern among welfare states, including Canada and most of the OECD countries. Immigration has been identified as a solution to help sustain labour-force growth in industrialized countries, and as the factor most able to mitigate dire predictions of future fiscal imbalances. This chapter examines the impact of low-skilled immigration in a host country where households are altruists with a pay-as-you-go pension system to support the elderly. It demonstrates that low-skilled immigration does not harm the welfare of the domestic population. We use an overlapping-generations model similar to the work of Razin and Sadka (2000) but introduce paternalistic altruism into the life-cycle framework. Within this context of inter-generational altruism and pay-as-you-go pension systems, the initial negative fiscal impact of low-skilled migrants is compensated, thus, all income groups (high and low) and all age groups (young and old) benefit from migration. // Chapter 2 Growth and Sustainability: In light of the major environmental issues experienced by several countries in the last decades, several papers have advocated the rethinking of the role of governments in environmental preservation. This chapter develops an overlapping-generations model of environmental quality and production and investigates the potential role of governmental participation in the preservation of the quality of the environment so as to achieve both economic growth and environmental sustainability. The analysis suggests that long term economic growth and environment sustainability can be maintained with tax-funded environmental programs in a context of a negative production externality on the quality of the environment. // Chapter 3 The Incidence of Geography on Canada’s Services Trade: We estimate geographic barriers to export trade in nine service categories for Canada's provinces from 1997 to 2007 using the structural gravity model. Constructed Home, Domestic and Foreign Bias indexes capture the direct plus indirect effect of services trade costs on intra-provincial, inter-provincial and international trade relative to their frictionless benchmarks. Barriers to services international trade are huge relative to inter-provincial trade and large relative to goods international trade. A novel test confirms the fit of structural gravity with services trade data.

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In current distribution automations design, fault flags generated by overcurrent relays are used to detect the feeder fault section. With the integration of distributed generations (DG), fault currents could be contributed from different directions and jeopardize the fault detection function. A large fault current contributed by a DG flows from downstream of a feeder could be detected by the overcurrent relay and lead to the confusion in fault detection function. In this thesis, adjunction current measurements and fault flags are utilized to minimize the possibility of mis-identification of fault section. The structure and data flow of a Java agent development framework (JADE) is adopted for feeder fault detection, identification and service restoration (FDIR). Based on information from local measurements and other agents, the FDIR function can be better conducted by local agents. Test results indicate that multi-agent systems can be used to improve system reliability and reduce service interruption time.

Thesis (D.Min.)--Abilene Christian University, 2007. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-101).

Syfte: Syftet med studien är att undersöka Generation Y:s förhållningssätt till arbetslivet för att ge en förståelse för deras föreställningar, behov och drivkrafter. Metod: Utgångspunkten är en kvalitativ studie, där fokusgrupper tillämpas för att att kartlägga och skapa förståelse för Generation Y:s förhållningssätt till arbetslivet. Dessa val ligger till grund för studiens utförande och tillvägagångssätt. Resultat & slutsats: Resultatet av fokusgruppsintervjuerna visade på generationens ifrågasättande attityd till arbetssätt och auktoriteter. Fokusgrupperna visade även på ett behov av att känna meningsfullhet i sitt arbete och la stor vikt vid trivsel och stabilitet på arbetsplatsen. Uppsatsens bidrag: Det empiriska bidraget är en ökad förståelse för Generation Y och deras förhållningssätt till arbetslivet, som ett medel att förbättra och utveckla relationer mellan ledare och unga medarbetare i dagens och framtidens organisationer.

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Chapter 1 Low-skilled Migration and Altruism: Population ageing has become a common concern among welfare states, including Canada and most of the OECD countries. Immigration has been identified as a solution to help sustain labour-force growth in industrialized countries, and as the factor most able to mitigate dire predictions of future fiscal imbalances. This chapter examines the impact of low-skilled immigration in a host country where households are altruists with a pay-as-you-go pension system to support the elderly. It demonstrates that low-skilled immigration does not harm the welfare of the domestic population. We use an overlapping-generations model similar to the work of Razin and Sadka (2000) but introduce paternalistic altruism into the life-cycle framework. Within this context of inter-generational altruism and pay-as-you-go pension systems, the initial negative fiscal impact of low-skilled migrants is compensated, thus, all income groups (high and low) and all age groups (young and old) benefit from migration. // Chapter 2 Growth and Sustainability: In light of the major environmental issues experienced by several countries in the last decades, several papers have advocated the rethinking of the role of governments in environmental preservation. This chapter develops an overlapping-generations model of environmental quality and production and investigates the potential role of governmental participation in the preservation of the quality of the environment so as to achieve both economic growth and environmental sustainability. The analysis suggests that long term economic growth and environment sustainability can be maintained with tax-funded environmental programs in a context of a negative production externality on the quality of the environment. // Chapter 3 The Incidence of Geography on Canada’s Services Trade: We estimate geographic barriers to export trade in nine service categories for Canada's provinces from 1997 to 2007 using the structural gravity model. Constructed Home, Domestic and Foreign Bias indexes capture the direct plus indirect effect of services trade costs on intra-provincial, inter-provincial and international trade relative to their frictionless benchmarks. Barriers to services international trade are huge relative to inter-provincial trade and large relative to goods international trade. A novel test confirms the fit of structural gravity with services trade data.

The following work is divided in two sections. In the review section, we analyse "La riviere sans repos", a collection of stories by Gabrielle Roy, published in 1970. This analysis explains the impact of the break-up of the social fabric of esquimo traditions on intergenerational interactions among families. / For quite some time, the arrival of white culture within the traditional esquimo civilization did not include the brutal and accelerated rhythm, as it has since World War II. Nevertheless, at the time where Roy sets the events in her book, between 1945 and 1968, one can definitely speak of culture shock. Hence, we would like to understand how the esquimo characters in the book react to this brutal culture change, as they are forced to question their identity along with their traditional values. In addition, we explain how these excessively rapid changes influence the interactions between four different generations. / The second section of this work, the creative section, is linked to the first by the coming together of members of a single family. " Jamais tu ne m'avais dit", a collection of short stories, includes individuals of different generations (for example, a parent and his child, a grandmother and her granddaughter), who are forced to truly communicate with one another, following an event or a recent discovery.