Determinants of plant closures in Swedish manufacturing

We study the derminants of plant closures i Swedish manufacturing using linked employer-employee data. From our theoretical framework we derive and empirically test hypothesis regarding the linkages between the probability of plant failure and: 1) industry-specific characteristics of production and product demand; 2) local labor market conditions; and 3) plant-specific sources of heterogeneity, including the importance of insider mechanisms in wage determination, plant specific human capital, selection mechanisms and technology vintage effects. Our results suggest that all these factors matter in ways that by and large conform to the a priori hypotheses.Plant closures; job reallocation; insider wage determination; selection mechanisms; capital vintage effects; linked employer-employee data

Do Benefit Cuts Boost Job Findings? Swedish Evidence From the 1990s

In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to 75 percent, a change that took effect on January 1, 1996. This paper examines how this change affected job finding rates among unemployed insured individuals. To identify the effect of the policy we exploit a quasi-experimental feature of the benefit cut: only a fraction of the unemployed was affected by the reduction in replacement rates. We compare the evolution of job finding rates before and after the reform among those affected and those not affected. Our estimates suggest that the reform caused an increase in the transition rate of roughly 10 percent. There is also evidence of anticipatory behavior among the unemployed; the effects of the reform seem to operate several months before its actual implementation in January 1996.Unemployment duration, unemployment benefits

Do benefit cuts boost job findings? Swedish evidence from the 1990s

In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to 75 percent, a change that took effect on January 1, 1996. This paper examines how this change affected job finding rates among unemployed insured individuals. To identify the effect of the policy we exploit a qasiexperimental feature of the benefit cut: only a fraction of the unemployed was affected by the reduction in replacement rates. We compare the evolution of job finding rates before and after the reform among those affected and those not affected. Our estimates suggest that the reform caused an increase in the transition rate of roughly 10 percent. There is also evidence of anticipatory behavior among the unemployed; the effects of the reform seem to operate several months before its actual implementation in January 1996.Unemployment duration; Unemployment benefits

Perpetually temporary shelter in Trieste

An old building that has seen displaced people in it many times over many years is being used by the latest group of arrivals, this time from outside Europe

EFFICIENT MARKET HYPOTHESIS, ABNORMAL RETURN AND ELECTION PERIODS

According to the efficient market hypothesis, it is impossible for the investors to achieve abnormally high returns. Because the price of an asset includes all available information which may affect the price of the product. Although until 1970's the efficient market hypothesis were deemed valid, it has been insufficient to explain specific price anomalies experienced within the recent years. One of these particular anomalies is experienced during the election periods. Within the scope of this study, two conclusions were achieved. The first one is that a price anomaly is experienced during the election period and the informed investors are aware of that. Secondly, it goes without saying that it is not possible to explain the financial market volatilities solely by employing the efficient market hypothesis

El perpetuo alojamiento temporal de Trieste

Un viejo edificio por el que durante muchos años han pasado personas desplazadas está siendo utilizado por el último grupo de recién llegados, esta vez de fuera de Europa

Practical Solutions for Reducing Rain-Wind-Induced Vibrations of Cables, in Cables-Stayed Bridges.

Rain vibration of cables is becoming a matter of great concern recently in Japan and other country for design and construction of cables-stayed- bridges. The features of rain vibration are the strong influence of rain on wind-induced oscillation of cable. The cables in cable-stayed bridges, which are stable with respect to wind acting in dry condition, became very unstable with rain, and large amplitude oscillation of cable could be developed under low speed wind. The principal parameters that give a great influence in this phenomenon can be classified in two groups. First the group of the situation of cable were included: the orientation of cable, wind speed, reins intensity. In second group named cables properties were are included natural periods, damping ratio and property of the surface of cables.In this article is presented only a part of the bibliographic study performed at the Laboratoire Central des Ponts at Chausse, Paris. This part is focused on two aspects, the mechanism of the problem and the solved solution by surface modification of cables for elimination of this kind of vibrations on the cables. We point here the fact that even many investigation are made this phenomenon is not well known and not jet is found a mathematical model to simulate exactly the real phenomenon.Here are given only those solutions that tend two stabilise the cable by modification of the surface of the cable. These modifications of the surface of cables tend to "destroy" the water rivulets created on the surface of the cables. Doing so, for every speed and direction of wind and for any rain intensity the water rivulet have not chance to be created on the surface of the cable. These findings are taken from the experiments and investigation on the cables-stayed bridge of Normandy, Paris and cables-stayed bridge of HIGASHI-KOBE, Japan

Legal Framework for the Protection of LGBT Adolescents from Violence and Discrimination in the Pre-University Education System in Albania

The Albanian Constitution guarantees equality before the law and the principle of non-discrimination to all citizens. In accordance with Article 18 of the Constitution, in early 2010, Albania approved the "Law for Protection from Discrimination."The law extends its effects to LGBT teens in the pre-university educational system, who face on one side the dilemmas of disclosure of their sexual orientation or gender identity, while on the other hand face discrimination, violence, harassment and bulling from other teenagers, teachers or self-victimization. The law requires that central institutions, including the Ministry of Education, take steps towards the protection of human rights of adolescents and young LGBT, guaranteed by the Constitution of Albania.In 2012 the Parliament passed the new bill "For Pre-University Education in Albania", but the protection of adolescents and youth from violence in the system found little reflection in the law. Pre-university education normative provisions contain little information on the complaint process and mechanisms that the educational system can use to protect LGBT teens from violence and discrimination. The question is whether the law on Education is in accordance with the principles of the Constitution. The article looks into qualitative aspects of international law on human and children's rights, such as the Convention for the Rights of the Child (CRC), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Constitution of Albania, to show the link between inter-sectionality the rights of adolescents with sexual rights for every human being and the importance of establishing effective complaint mechanisms for the protection of adolescents