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Disability and Occupation
[Excerpt] It is well-documented that people with disabilities have a significantly lower rate of employment than people without disabilities (36% versus 74% according to the 2006 American Community Survey (ACS)). Less is known about the types of work they do. Using the occupational classification system within the ACS, researchers explored the prevalence of people with disabilities within occupational groupings and discuss its relationship to occupational growth1. Future analysis will address variation across disability groups
Volatility occupation times
We propose nonparametric estimators of the occupation measure and the
occupation density of the diffusion coefficient (stochastic volatility) of a
discretely observed It\^{o} semimartingale on a fixed interval when the mesh of
the observation grid shrinks to zero asymptotically. In a first step we
estimate the volatility locally over blocks of shrinking length, and then in a
second step we use these estimates to construct a sample analogue of the
volatility occupation time and a kernel-based estimator of its density. We
prove the consistency of our estimators and further derive bounds for their
rates of convergence. We use these results to estimate nonparametrically the
quantiles associated with the volatility occupation measure.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AOS1135 the Annals of
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Are Occupation Numbers Observable?
The question of whether occupation numbers and momentum distributions of
nucleons in nuclei are observables is considered from an effective field theory
perspective. Field redefinitions lead to variations that imply the answer is
negative, as illustrated in the interacting Fermi gas at low density.
Implications for the interpretation of (e,e'p) experiments with nuclei are
discussed.Comment: 8 pages, revtex4, 4 ps figure
The logics of occupation
Outline from a seminar facilitated at Nottingham Critical Pedagogy, Univeristy of Nottingha
"The Good Occupation"
Many Americans picture the Allied (i.e., U.S.) Occupation of Japan (1945-52) as the quintessentially good occupation: elaborately planned in advance, idealistically administered until derailed by anti-Communist indeologues in its later years, it laid the foundation for Japan's post-War democracy and prosperity. In fact, the Americans -- especially those Americans celebrated as most "idealist" -- did not plan a Japanese recovery, and for the first several years did not work for one. Instead, they mostly just planned retribution: whom to hang, and which firms to shutter. Economic issues they entrusted to Japanese bureaucrats, and those bureaucrats merely manipulated the controls they had used to disastrous effect during the War. Coming from a New Deal background in Washington, the Americans enthusiastically urged them on. Although the Japanese economy did grow, it did not grow because of the Occupation. It grew in spite of it. In early 1949, Japanese voters overwhelmingly rejected the political parties offering economic controls. In their stead, they elected center-right politicians offering a non-interventionist platform. These politicians then dismantled the controls, and (despite strong opposition from New Deal bureaucrats in the Occupation) imposed a largely non-interventionist framework. As a result of that choice -- and not as result of anything the Occupation did -- the Japanese economy grew.
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