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    Unemployment duration among immigrants and natives: unobserved heterogeneity in a multi-spell duration model

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    This paper studies whether the unemployment dynamics of immigrants differ from those of natives, paying special attention to the impact of accounting for unobserved heterogeneity among individuals. Using a large administrative data set for Spain, we estimate multiple-spell discrete duration models which disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from duration dependence. Specifically, we estimate random effects models assuming that the distribution of the effects is discrete with finite support, and fixed effects models in which the distribution of the unobserved effects is left unrestricted. Our results show the importance of accounting for unobserved heterogeneity and that mistaken policy implications can be derived due to improper treatment of unmeasured variables. We find that lack of control for unobserved heterogeneity leads to the conclusion that immigrant males have a higher probability of leaving unemployment than natives and that the negative effect of unemployment benefits for immigrants lasts longer than for natives. Nonetheless, the estimates which do control for unobserved heterogeneity show the opposite results

    To Wet or Not to Wet? Dispersion Forces Tip the Balance for Water Ice on Metals

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    Despite widespread discussion, the role of van der Waals dispersion forces in wetting remains unclear. Here we show that nonlocal correlations contribute substantially to the water-metal bond and that this is an important factor in governing the relative stabilities of wetting layers and 3D bulk ice. Because of the greater polarizability of the substrate metal atoms, nonlocal correlations between water and the metal exceed those between water molecules within ice. This sheds light on a long-standing problem, wherein common density functional theory exchange-correlation functionals incorrectly predict that none of the low temperature experimentally characterized icelike wetting layers are thermodynamically stable

    Kardar-Parisi-Zhang growth on one-dimensional decreasing substrates

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    Recent experimental works on one-dimensional (1D) circular Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) systems whose radii decrease in time have reported controversial conclusions about the statistics of their interfaces. Motivated by this, we investigate here several 1D KPZ models on substrates whose size changes in time as L(t)=L0+ωtL(t)=L_0 + \omega t, focusing on the case ω<0\omega<0. From extensive numerical simulations, we show that for L0≫1L_0 \gg 1 there exists a transient regime in which the statistics is consistent with that of flat KPZ systems (the ω=0\omega=0 case), for both ω0\omega0. Actually, for a given model, L0L_0 and âˆŁÏ‰âˆŁ|\omega|, we observe that a difference between ingrowing (ω0\omega0) systems arises only at long times (t≳tc=L0/âˆŁÏ‰âˆŁt \gtrsim t_c=L_0/|\omega|), when the expanding surfaces cross over to the statistics of curved KPZ systems, whereas the shrinking ones become completely correlated. A generalization of the Family-Vicsek scaling for the roughness of ingrowing interfaces is presented. Our results demonstrate that a transient flat statistics is a general feature of systems starting with large initial sizes, regardless their curvature. This is consistent with their recent observation in ingrowing turbulent liquid crystal interfaces, but it is in contrast with the apparent observation of curved statistics in colloidal deposition at the edge of evaporating drops. A possible explanation for this last result, as a consequence of the very small number of monolayers analyzed in this experiment, is given. This is illustrated in a competitive growth model presenting a few-monolayer transient and an asymptotic behavior consistent, respectively, with the curved and flat statistics.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure

    Width and extremal height distributions of fluctuating interfaces with window boundary conditions

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    We present a detailed study of squared local roughness (SLRDs) and local extremal height distributions (LEHDs), calculated in windows of lateral size ll, for interfaces in several universality classes, in substrate dimensions ds=1d_s = 1 and ds=2d_s = 2. We show that their cumulants follow a Family-Vicsek type scaling, and, at early times, when Οâ‰Șl\xi \ll l (Ο\xi is the correlation length), the rescaled SLRDs are given by log-normal distributions, with their nnth cumulant scaling as (Ο/l)(n−1)ds(\xi/l)^{(n-1)d_s}. This give rise to an interesting temporal scaling for such cumulants ⟹wn⟩c∌tÎłn\left\langle w_n \right\rangle_c \sim t^{\gamma_n}, with Îłn=2nÎČ+(n−1)ds/z=[2n+(n−1)ds/α]ÎČ\gamma_n = 2 n \beta + {(n-1)d_s}/{z} = \left[ 2 n + {(n-1)d_s}/{\alpha} \right] \beta. This scaling is analytically proved for the Edwards-Wilkinson (EW) and Random Deposition interfaces, and numerically confirmed for other classes. In general, it is featured by small corrections and, thus, it yields exponents Îłn\gamma_n's (and, consequently, α\alpha, ÎČ\beta and zz) in nice agreement with their respective universality class. Thus, it is an useful framework for numerical and experimental investigations, where it is, usually, hard to estimate the dynamic zz and mainly the (global) roughness α\alpha exponents. The stationary (for Ο≫l\xi \gg l) SLRDs and LEHDs of Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) class are also investigated and, for some models, strong finite-size corrections are found. However, we demonstrate that good evidences of their universality can be obtained through successive extrapolations of their cumulant ratios for long times and large ll's. We also show that SLRDs and LEHDs are the same for flat and curved KPZ interfaces.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figures, 4 table

    Localized Dispersive States in Nonlinear Coupled Mode Equations for Light Propagation in Fiber Bragg Gratings.

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    Dispersion effects induce new instabilities and dynamics in the weakly nonlinear description of light propagation in fiber Bragg gratings. A new family of dispersive localized pulses that propagate with the group velocity is numerically found, and its stability is also analyzed. The unavoidable different asymptotic order of transport and dispersion effects plays a crucial role in the determination of these localized states. These results are also interesting from the point of view of general pattern formation since this asymptotic imbalance is a generic situation in any transport-dominated (i.e., nonzero group velocity) spatially extended system

    The Five-Loop Four-Point Amplitude of N=4 super-Yang-Mills Theory

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    Using the method of maximal cuts, we construct the complete D-dimensional integrand of the five-loop four-point amplitude of N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory, including nonplanar contributions. In the critical dimension where this amplitude becomes ultraviolet divergent, we present a compact explicit expression for the nonvanishing ultraviolet divergence in terms of three vacuum integrals. This construction provides a crucial step towards obtaining the corresponding amplitude of N = 8 supergravity useful for resolving the general ultraviolet behavior of supergravity theories.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, RevTex. Ancillary file included. v2 minor corrections, corrected references and overall phase in eq. (5), matching journal versio
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