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Labor market search with two-sided heterogeneity : hierarchical versus circular models / Aico van Vuuren -- The weak Pareto law in Burdett-Mortensen equilibrium search models / Gerard J. van den Berg -- Competitive auctions : theory and application / John Kennes -- Bargaining, on-the-job search and labor market equilibrium / Roberto Bonilla -- Block assignments / Michael Sattinger -- Social security and intergenerational redistribution / Robert R. Reed -- The job ladder / George R. Neuman -- Heterogeneity in firms wages and mobility policies / S. Roux -- The empirical content of the job search model : labor mobility and wage distributions in Europe and the U.S.$ / Jean-Marc Robin -- Summary of the conference papers / Dale T. Mortensen -- Job changes and wage growth over the careers of private sector workers in Denmark / Niels Westergaard-Nielsen -- Identification and inference in dynamic programming models / Nicholas M. Kiefer -- On estimation of a two-sided matching model / Linda Y. Wong -- On-the-job search and strategic bargaining / Robert Shimer -- A structural nonstationary model of job search : stigmatization of the unemployed by job offers or wage offers? / Laurence Rioux -- Can rent sharing explain the Belgian gender wage gap? / Ilan Tojerow -- Modeling individual earnings trajectories using copulas : France, 1990-2002 / Jean-Marc Robin -- Amplification of productivity shocks : why don't vacancies like to hire the unemployed? / Eva Nagypal -- Evaluating the performance of the search and matching model / Eran Yashiv -- Productivity growth and worker reallocation : theory and evidence / Dale T. Mortensen -- Alternative theories of wage dispersion / Randall Wright -- Wage differentials, discrimination and efficiency / Shouyong Shi

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of software piracy to ease the benchmarking of current efforts toward harmonizing the standards and enforcements of intellectual property rights (henceforth IPRs) protection worldwide.Design/methodology/approachFor that purpose, the authors estimate dynamic panel data models for 99 countries over the period 1994-2010.FindingsThe main finding suggest that, a genuine timeframe for standardizing IPRs laws in the fight against software piracy is most feasible within a horizon of 4.3-10.4 years. In other words, full (100 percent) convergence within the specified timeframe will mean the enforcements of IPRs regimes without distinction of nationality or locality within identified fundamental characteristics of software piracy. The absence of convergence (in absolute and conditional terms) for the World panel indicates that, blanket policies may not be effective unless they are contingent on the prevailing trajectories, dynamics and tendencies of software piracy. Policy implications and caveats are also discussed.Originality/valueIt is the first attempt to empirically assess the convergence of IPRs systems across countries.

© 2022 Elsevier. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ; A nonintrusive reduced order method able to solve a parametric modal analysis is proposed in this work. The main objective is being able to efficiently identify how a variation of user-defined parameters affects the dynamic response of the structure in terms of fundamental natural frequencies and corresponding mode shapes. A parametric version of the inverse power method (IPM) is presented by using the proper generalised decomposition (PGD) rationale. The proposed approach utilises the socalled encapsulated PGD toolbox and includes a new algorithm for computing the square root of a parametric object. With only one offline computation, the proposed PGD-IPM approach provides an analytical parametric expression of the smallest (in magnitude) eigenvalue (or natural frequency) and corresponding eigenvector (mode shape), which contains all the possible solutions for every combination of the parameters within pre-defined ranges. A Lagrange multiplier deflation technique is introduced in order to compute subsequent eigenpairs, which is also valid to overcome the stiffness matrix singularity in the case of a free-free structure. The proposed approach is nonintrusive and it is therefore possible to be integrated with commercial finite element (FE) packages. Two numerical examples are shown to underline the properties of the technique. The first example includes one material and one geometric parameter. The second example shows a more realistic industrial example, where the nonintrusivity of the approach is demonstrated by employing a commercial FE package for assembling the FE matrices. Finally, a multi-objective optimisation study is performed proving that the developed method could significantly assist the decision-making during the preliminary phase of a new design process. ; This project is part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN-EJD ProTechTion funded by the European Union ...

Outlining important policy requirements for Bangladesh to become an upper middle-income country, the book presents research work conducted during the project "Changing Labor Markets in Bangladesh: Understanding Dynamics in Relation to Economic Growth and Poverty," sponsored by the International Development Research Center (IDRC), Canada. Bangladesh has experienced remarkable economic growth rates over the last decade. The country has recently been upgraded from a low-income country (LIC) to a lower-middle-income country (LMIC) as per the World Bank's classification system. By 2024, the country also aspires to graduate from the United Nation's list of least developed countries (LDC). The 7th five-year plan sets an ambitious target of 8 percent growth in GDP by 2020. There are also steep development targets to be achieved under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. All these will require an enormous leap forward from the current level of economic growth rate and sustaining it in the future. The situation also calls for considerable structural change in the economy, facilitating large-scale economic diversification. Rapid expansion of labor-intensive and high-productivity sectors, both in the farm and nonfarm sectors, is thus crucial for Bangladesh. Further, this should take place in conjunction with interventions to enhance productivity, jobs and incomes in traditional and informal activities where there are large pools of surplus labor. Given its relevance for Bangladesh and applicability to many other developing countries, the book offers a unique and pioneering resource for researchers, industry watchers as well as policy makers

Conventional wisdom would have us believe that Assam is a state where the status of women is comparatively better off than that of their counterparts in the rest of India, that they suffer from fewer instances of domestic violence. The geographical contiguity of a region which contains some matrilineal tribal societies, significant female mobility, and a near absence of practices such as dowry or sati as part of tradition, might lend some credibility to this belief. However, present indicators and crime statistics have actually shown a high incidence of overall crimes against women in Assam. A complex socio-political milieu, characterised by increasing militarism and insurgency, continuing ethnic and group conflicts in an overall environment where 'market forces' dominate, has in its own way posed serious challenges to the security of women and led to the opening up of more and more 'violent spaces' –the home being one one of them. The present study endeavours to explore the socio-structural dynamics and contexts rooted in Assam that perpetuate domestic violence against women. The study underscores the necessity of informed policy-level interventions and a holistic approach to address structural constraints that underpin such violence.

"Commodities have become and important component of many investors' portfolios and the focus of much political controversy over the past decade. This book utilizes structural models to provide a better understanding of how commodities' prices behave and what drives them. It exploits differences across commoditites and examines a variety of predictions of the models to identify where they work and where they fail. The findings of the analysis are useful to scholars, traders, and policy makers who want to better understand often puzzling--and extreme--movements in the prices of commoditites from aluminum to oil to soybeans to zinc"--Provided by publisher