In a marriage market where women are scarce and thus able to "marry up," certain characteristics of young surplus males are easily and accurately predicted.
Thus, few women with scarce resources were able to wean their children at the age of six months or a few months thereafter.
Conditions were crude and food was scarce, but Steinberg was able to draw, and, perhaps with a thought to his possible future, he pored over books in English that other prisoners had brought with them.
Whether labour hangs on in such fashion or is brushed aside through automation, the implications for labour earnings are grim.The second big question is: in this world of rising capital stocks and income shares, what is the scarce factor, which is able to capture the benefits of economic growth?
'Tis a Point, which seems to me, to be put out of the reach of our Knowledge: And he who will give himself leave to consider freely, and look into the dark and intricate part of each Hypothesis, will scarce find his Reason able to determine him fixedly for, or against, the Soul's Materiality.
Most likely this is because of the scarce availability of isolates able to infect the same host while displaying a range of pathogenicity.
Solid data on the age-specific infection incidence in Germany are scarce, but we were able to compare our simulation results to the infection incidence among young adults [ 33], obtaining a good concordance.
A strong central governmental apparatus proved able to channel scarce resources into the rapid development of heavy industry.
In the past, when other natural resources have become scarce, we have generally been able to perfect a technology that can leapfrog the old and bring about big improvements in living standards and output.Rather than trying to preserve oil we should be using it as the market dictates.
Firms are able to combine scarce resources in complementary ways that enable them to improve quality and efficiency as well as to develop new products and technologies.
