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AbstractIf large firms employ relatively more educated workers, will an increase in market concentration increase income inequality by raising the relative demand for skill? I use Swedish employer–employee data from 1997–2016 and find a strong correlation between firm size and the share of college‐educated ('skilled') workers. An increase in a sector's market concentration is correlated with a higher skilled wage premium and higher relative employment of skilled workers. This is due mainly to the reallocation of workers across firms. I demonstrate how these findings can be explained by a model of heterogeneous firms where productivity and skill intensity are positively correlated.

AbstractThis paper offers a theoretical foundation for the existence of wholesalers and other intermediaries in international trade and analyzes their role in an economy with heterogeneous manufacturing firms and fixed costs of exporting. Wholesalers are assumed to possess a technology such that they can buy manufacturing goods domestically and sell in foreign markets and they can, unlike manufacturers, export more than one good. A wholesaler therefore faces an additional fixed cost, which increases in the number of goods it handles. The presence of wholesale firms leads to productivity sorting. The most productive firms export on their own by paying a fixed cost, but a range of firms with intermediate productivity levels export through international wholesalers. A higher fixed cost of exporting to a destination means that wholesalers handle: (i) a higher share of total export volumes to this destination and (ii) a higher share of the exported product scope (i.e., the number of exported products) to this destination. A higher fixed cost of exporting gives wholesalers a larger role, since these can spread the fixed cost across more than one good. The wholesale technology therefore exhibits economies of scope. An empirical analysis using Swedish firm‐level data supports the main assumption and predictions of the model.

"Assessing and Managing Problematic Sexual Interests: A Practitioner's Guide provides a thorough review of atypical sexual interests and offers various ways through which they can be measured and controlled, including compassion-focused and psychoanalytic approaches. This unique guide presents a detailed analysis of deviant sexual interest. The first section, "Assessment," overviews the range of sexual interests and fantasies in men and women. The second section, "Management," investigates the cutting-edge tools, approaches, interventions, and treatment advances used in a variety of settings to control deviant sexual interest. Throughout, Assessing and Managing Problematic Sexual Interests offers necessary perspectives and emerging research from international experts at the forefront of this field. With a thorough assessment of current research and a critical overview of treatment advances for problematic sexual interests, Assessing and Managing Problematic Sexual Interests is an essential resource for clinical and forensic psychologists, probation officers, academics, students working in the field, and members of allied professional fields"--

The narrative complexity of history -- The shape of narrative identity in exile -- Personal narratives and the creation of a political voice -- The rhetoric of narrative work -- Ethical and interpretive stances in narrative work -- Reflections -- Epilogue.

In this study of exile, Sean Akerman chronicles the ways in which narrative approaches provide opportunities to understand and represent the lives of those who have been displaced after violence. Drawing on fieldwork he conducted with Tibetan exiles in New York City, and supplemented with archival research from other exilees around the world, Akerman investigates how narrative approaches can reveal what it's like to embody historical tensions, how identity becomes contested within displaced groups, and how personal stories become ingrained into the responsibilities of political realities.

History of Wanjina research and recordings : 1838-1910 -- accidental avocational discoveries; 1911-1970 : The growth of informed research; McCaffrey's contribution to understanding Wandjina iconography; Post 1960s research on Wanjinas; Summary -- Wanjinas, rainmaking and control of the elements: clubs and weather control; beards, hair, wanjinas and rainmakign -- Sea wanjinas, coast wanjinas -- two sagas or one great saga? : sequence of events linking some Wanjinas in the hinterland with some Wanjinas on coast -- Wanjina art -- a general statement -- Concluding thoughts -- List of Appendices : Appendix 1 : Drawing showing the anatomy of a Wunambal Wanjina -- Appendix 2: Some elemental figures on Wanjina identified on the head -- Appendix 3: List of named Wanjinas with locations and references -- Appendix 4: Walanganda, Unggud, Galeru and wanjinas -- Appendix 5: Narratives related to the Wanlirri saga and Tumbi the owl -- Appendix 6: Myths relating to sea wanjinas -- Appendix 7: Links between coastal and hinterland elements of the greater wanjina saga -- Appendix 8: Other cosmological beings associated with Wanjina rock art -- Appendix 9: Some mythology relating to contemporary cosmological anthropomorphic beings other than Wanjinas.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- PART ONE Points of Departure -- 1 A Free-Falling Society? Six Introductory Notes -- PART TWO On the Battlefield -- 2 Friction and Warfare -- PART THREE Incentives for Progress -- 3 Let Us Now Praise Dragging Feet! -- 4 Social Change Induced by Technology: Promotion and Resistance -- 5 Inertia and Development Models -- PART FOUR Rationality in the Marketplace -- 6 Friction in Economics -- 7 Essential Friction: Error-Control in Organizational Behavior -- PART FIVE Elation and Frustration -- 8 Playing, Writing, Wrestling -- 9 Why Things Don't Happen as Planned -- 10 Six Poèmes en Prose -- PART SIX Structuring the Human Space -- 11 The Desire for Order -- 12 Stay in My House -- 13 Unpredictability, Frictions, and Order -- 14 Friction and Inertia in Industrial Design -- PART SEVEN Physics and Metaphysics -- 15 An Exemplary Physical Disposition -- 16 Friction of Bodies, Friction of Minds -- PART EIGHT Into the Future -- 17 Frictionless Forecasting Is A Fiction -- PART NINE Metaphor Transferred -- 18 Rediscovering Friction: Not All That Is SolidMelts into Air -- Notes -- About the Authors

Richard Akerman's presentation for Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) meeting "Open Lab Notebooks: An Extreme Open Science Initiative" http://www.thesgc.org/open-lab-notebooks-2018 January 19, 2018 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Meeting supported by Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Wellcome Trust. Twitter hashtag was #SGCOpenNotebooks Also on Slideshare https://www.slideshare.net/scilib/open-science-in-the-government-of-canada WebEx (audio plus slides) of presentation available at https://youtu.be/vxoxKVUWsUY?t=2h35m11s (my presentation starts at 2h35m11s). Due to technical difficulties the first three slides aren't displayed.

Richard Akerman's presentation for Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) meeting "Open Lab Notebooks: An Extreme Open Science Initiative" http://www.thesgc.org/open-lab-notebooks-2018 January 19, 2018 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Meeting supported by Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Wellcome Trust. Twitter hashtag was #SGCOpenNotebooks Also on Slideshare https://www.slideshare.net/scilib/open-science-in-the-government-of-canada WebEx (audio plus slides) of presentation available at https://youtu.be/vxoxKVUWsUY?t=2h35m11s (my presentation starts at 2h35m11s). Due to technical difficulties the first three slides aren't displayed.