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Flexibility at the margin and labor market volatility in OECD countries
We argue that segmented labor markets with flexibility at the margin (e.g., just affecting
fixed-term employees) may achieve similar volatility than fully deregulated labor
markets. Flexibility at the margin produces a gap in separation costs among matched
workers that cause fixed-term employment to be the main workforce adjustment
device. Moreover, in the presence of limitations in the duration and number of renewals
of fixed-term contracts, firms respond by fostering labor turnover which further raises
the volatility of the labor market. We present a matching model with temporary and
permanent jobs where (i) the gap in firing costs and (ii) restrictions in the use of fixedterm
contracts play the central role to explain the similar volatility observed in many
regulated labor markets with flexibility at the margin vis-Ă -vis the fully deregulated
ones
Comment on "Topological stability of the half-vortices in spinor exciton-polariton condensates"
We show that recent paper by Flayac et al. [Phys. Rev. B 81, 045318 (2010)
and arXiv:0911.1650] is misleading. We demonstrate the existence of static
half-quantum vortices in exciton-polariton condensates and calculate the
warping of their polarization texture produced by TE-TM splitting of polariton
band.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure. More material was added (in particular, on the
current flow)
Flexibility at the Margin and Labor Market Volatility in OECD Countries
We study whether segmented labor markets with flexibility at the margin (e.g., just affecting fixed-term employees) can achieve similar volatility than fully deregulated labor markets. Flexibility at the margin produces a gap in separation costs among matched workers that cause fixed-term employment to be the main workforce adjustment device, which in turn increases de labor market volatility. This increased volatility is partially reverted when limitations in the duration and number of renewals of fixed-term contracts are introduced. Under this scenario, firms respond by reducing the intensity of job destruction since it becomes more difficult to avoid firing costs in permanents contracts. We present a matching model with temporary and permanent jobs where (i) the gap in firing costs and (ii) restrictions in the use of fixed-term contracts helps explain the similar volatility observed in many regulated OECD labor markets with flexibility at the margin vis-Ă -vis the fully deregulated ones.separation costs, volatility, flexibility at the margin, matching model
Flexibility at the margin and labor market volatility in OECD countries
We argue that segmented labor markets with flexibility at the margin (e.g., just affecting fixed-term employees) may achieve similar volatility than fully deregulated labor markets. Flexibility at the margin produces a gap in separation costs among matched workers that cause fixed-term employment to be the main workforce adjustment device. Moreover, in the presence of limitations in the duration and number of renewals of fixed-term contracts, firms respond by fostering labor turnover which further raises the volatility of the labor market. We present a matching model with temporary and permanent jobs where (i) the gap in firing costs and (ii) restrictions in the use of fixedterm contracts play the central role to explain the similar volatility observed in many regulated labor markets with flexibility at the margin vis-Ă -vis the fully deregulated ones.
Upper Bound on the Hadronic Light-by-Light Contribution to the Muon g-2
There are indications that hadronic loops in some electroweak observables are
almost saturated by parton level effects. Taking this as the hypothesis for
this work, we propose a genuine parton level estimate of the hadronic
light-by-light contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, a_mu
(LBL,had). Our quark mass definitions and values are motivated in detail, and
the simplicity of our approach allows for a transparent error estimate. For
infinitely heavy quarks our treatment is exact, while for asymptotically small
quark masses a_mu (LBL,had) is overestimated. Interpolating, this suggests
quoting an upper bound. We obtain a_mu (LBL,had) < 1.59 10^-9 (95% CL).Comment: 4 pages; 2 references added, some changes in text; final versio
Color screening in a constituent quark model of hadronic matter
The effect of color screening on the formation of a heavy quark-antiquark
() bound state--such as the meson--is studied using a
constituent-quark model. The response of the nuclear medium to the addition of
two color charges is simulated directly in terms of its quark constituents via
a string-flip potential that allows for quark confinement within hadrons yet
enables the hadrons to separate without generating unphysical long-range
forces. Medium modifications to the properties of the heavy meson, such as its
energy and its mean-square radius, are extracted by solving Schr\"odinger's
equation for the pair in the presence of a (screened)
density-dependent potential. The density dependence of the heavy-quark
potential is in qualitative agreement with earlier studies of its temperature
dependence extracted from lattice calculations at finite temperature. In the
present model it is confirmed that abrupt changes in the properties of the
-meson in the hadronic medium ({\it plasma}), correlate strongly with
the deconfining phase transition.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRC for publication, uses revtex
Vortices in exciton-polariton condensates with polarization splitting
The presence of polarization splitting of exciton-polariton branches in
planar semiconductor microcavities has a pronounced effect on vortices in
polariton condensates. We show that the TE-TM splitting leads to the coupling
between the left and right half-vortices (vortices in the right and left
circular components of the condensate), that otherwise do not interact. We
analyze also the effect of linear polarization pinning resulted from a fixed
splitting between two perpendicular linear polarizations. In this case,
half-vortices acquire strings (solitons) attached to them. The half-vortices
with strings can be detected by observing the interference fringes of light
emitted from the cavity in two circular polarizations. The string affects the
fringes in both polarizations. Namely, the half-vortex is characterized by an
asymmetric fork-like dislocation in one circular polarization; the fringes in
the other circular polarization are continuous, but they are shifted by
crossing the string.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figs, Optics of Excitons in Confined Systems 11 (Madrid,
7-11 september 2009
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