Soft-decision Viterbi decoding with diversity combining [PDF]
Diversity combining methods for convolutional coded and soft-decision Viterbi decoded channels in mobile satellite communications systems are evaluated and it is clarified that the pre-Viterbi-decoding maximal ratio combining shows better performance ...
Kato, S., Kobayashi, K., Sakai, T.
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Assimilating Immigrants: The Impact of an Integration Program [PDF]
Immigration policy design is an important and controversial topic in most developed countries. We inform this debate by evaluating the effects of an integration program for immigrants to Finland.
Kari Hamalainen, Matti Sarvimaki
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[Citizen's Income ("Bürgergeld") or Social Welfare ("Hartz IV")?] [PDF]
Schäfer H.
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Do Government Sponsored Vocational Training Programs Help the Unemployed Find Jobs? Evidence from Russia [PDF]
The study estimates the employment effect of vocational training programs for the unemployed in urban Russia. The results of propensity score matching indicate that training programs had a non-negative overall effect on the program participants relative ...
Anton Nivorozhkin, Eugene Nivorozhkin
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Education, Market Rigidities and Growth. [PDF]
This paper investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries.
Aghion, Ph. +4 more
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High prevalence of Rickettsia spp. in ticks from wild hedgehogs rather than domestic bovine in Jiangsu province, Eastern China. [PDF]
Qi Y +15 more
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Main features of the labour policy in Portugal [PDF]
In this working paper is presented information on the Portuguese labour market developed with the support of the European project WORKS-“Work organisation and restructuring in the knowledge society”.
António Brandão Moniz, Tobias Woll
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Illegal immigration and a heterogeneous labour force. When can quotas generate an internal conflict? [PDF]
In this paper we analyze the effects on the welfare of heterogeneous native workers in the context of the presence of legal and illegal immigrants, and where the main instrument of economic policy takes the form of entry quotas.
Clemente, Jesus +2 more
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Acute respiratory failure-related excess mortality in pediatric sepsis. [PDF]
Keim G +5 more
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Labor Market Effects of Social Programs: Evidence from India's Employment Guarantee
Clément A. C. Imbert, John Papp
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