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Prominent UH political scientist Francisco Cantú passes away at 40

Introduction:-The National Minimum Wage (NMW) Act of 1998 created a minimum wage across the United Kingdom. This Act applies to workers i.e. everyone who has a contract to do work personally other than for a customer or a client. Those working through agencies are included so that the agency's charges must not reduce a worker’s…

Erik Brynjolfsson, Xiang Hui, Meng Liu Protectionism has been on the rise in recent years. Brexit and the China-US trade war are but a couple of examples marking the shift from previous traditions of openness towards the mobility of people, goods, and services. There is much support for the contention that restriction of trade and imposed barriers to cross-border movement are associated with a net economic loss (Delpeuch et al. 2021).  Amiti et al. (2019) calculated the deadweight cost of welf...