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Optimal Coexistence of Long-term and Short-term contracts in Labor Markets
We consider a market where firms hire workers to run their projects and such projects differ in profitability. At any period, each firm needs two workers to suc- cessfully run its project: a junior agent, with no specific skills, and a senior worker, whose effort is not verifiable. Senior workers differ in ability and their competence is revealed after they have worked as juniors in the market. We study the length of the contractual relationships between firms and workers in an environment where the matching between firms and workers is the result of market interaction. We show that, despite in a one-firm-one-worker set-up long-term contracts are the op- timal choice for firms, market forces often induce firms to use short-term contracts. Unless the market only consists of firms with very profitable projects, firms oper- ating highly profitable projects offer short-term contracts to ensure the service of high-ability workers and those with less lucrative projects also use short-term contracts to save on the junior workers' wage. Intermediate firms may (or may not) hire workers through long-term contracts.
Optimal Coexistence of Long-term and Short-term contracts in Labor Markets
We consider a market where firms hire workers to run their projects and such projects differ in profitability. At any period, each firm needs two workers to successfully run its project: a junior agent, with no specific skills, and a senior worker, whose effort is not verifiable. Senior workers differ in ability and their competence is revealed after they have worked as juniors in the market. We study the length of the contractual relationships between firms and workers in an environment where the matching between firms and workers is the result of market interaction. We show that, despite in a one-firm-one-worker set-up long-term contracts are the optimal choice for firms, market forces often induce firms to use short-term contracts. Unless the market only consists of firms with very profitable projects, firms operating highly profitable projects offer short-term contracts to ensure the service of high-ability workers and those with less lucrative projects also use short-term contracts to save on the junior workers' wage. Intermediate firms may (or may not) hire workers through long-term contracts.Labor contracts, short-term, long-term, matching, incentives.
Sequential Formation of Coalitions through Bilateral Agreements in a Cournot Setting
We study a sequential protocol of endogenous coalition formation based on a process of bilateral agreements among the players. We apply the game to a Cournot environment with linear demand and constant average costs. We show that the final outcome of any Subgame Perfect Equilibrium of the game is the grand coalition, provided the initial number of firms is high enough and they are sufficiently patient.Coalition formation, bilateral agreements, Cournot.
Dynamic simulation of indirect air conditioning systems with optimized computational time
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Coexistence of long-term and short-term contracts
We are grateful to the participants at seminars at CREST (Paris), U de Salamanca and U Autònoma de Barcelona and at SAE 2011 (Málaga), 20iDEA 2011 (Barcelona), Games 2012 (Istanbul), CICGTA 2012 (Qingdao), SAET 2013 (Paris), as well as four reviewers and the co-editor for their insightful comments. Financial support from Ministerio de Ciencia y TecnologĂa (ECO2008-04321, ECO2009-07616 and ECO2012-31962), Generalitat de Catalunya (2009SGR-169), Junta de AndalucĂa (SEJ-02936 and SEJ-04992), Severo Ochoa Programme (SEV2011-0075), and ICREA Academia is gratefully acknowledgedAltres ajuts: SEJ-02936Altres ajuts: SEJ-04992Altres ajuts: SEV2011-0075We study the length of agreements in a market in which infinitely-lived firms contract with agents that live for two periods. Firms differ in the expected values of their projects, as do workers in their abilities to manage projects. Worker effort is not contractible and worker ability is revealed during the relationship. The market dictates the trade-off between sorting and incentives. Short- and long-term contracts often coexist: The best firms always use short-term contracts to hire high-ability senior workers, firms with less profitable projects use short-term contracts to save on the cost of hiring junior workers, whereas intermediate firms use long-term agreements to provide better incentives to their workers. We relate our results to the optimal assignment literature that follows Becker (1973)
Thermal System Oriented Simulation of Aircraft Electrical Environmental Control Systems Including its Electric Coupling
A flexible numerical platform based on libraries has been developed within the Dymola/Modelica framework to simulate Environmental Control Systems (ECS). The goal was to build up a flexible tool to analyse complex systems including their thermal and electrical perimeters at both steady and transient conditions focusing on three key characteristics: numerical robustness, optimal time consumption, and high accuracy. This document aims to underline both the most relevant features of the numerical tool and the main challenges addressed during its development. Some illustrative simulations are shown in order to highlight the tool capabilities.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version
Entanglement of a chiral fermion on the torus
In this paper we present the detailed calculation of a new modular Hamiltonian, namely that of a chiral fermion on a circle at non-zero temperature. We provide explicit results for an arbitrary collection of intervals, which we discuss at length by checking against known results in different limits and by computing the associated modular flow. We also compute the entanglement entropy, and we obtain a simple expression for it which appears to be more manageable than those already existing in the literature.Fil: Blanco, David Daniel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Oficina de CoordinaciĂłn Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de FĂsica de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de FĂsica de Buenos Aires; ArgentinaFil: Garbarz, Alan Nicolás. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Oficina de CoordinaciĂłn Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de FĂsica de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de FĂsica de Buenos Aires; ArgentinaFil: PĂ©rez Nadal, Guillem. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Oficina de CoordinaciĂłn Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de FĂsica de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de FĂsica de Buenos Aires; Argentin
Modular conjugation for multicomponent regions
We consider a massless Dirac field in dimensions, and compute the
Tomita-Takesaki modular conjugation corresponding to the vacuum state and a
generic multicomponent spacetime region. We do it by analytic continuation from
the modular flow, which was computed recently. We use our result to discuss the
validity of Haag duality in this model.Comment: 20 pages, 10 figure
Gamification for Maths and Physics in University Degrees through a Transportation Challenge
Our society is immersed in the Fourth Industrial Revolution due to the fast evolution of
the new technologies that are modifying the labor market. In the near future, technologies related to
Industry 4.0 will produce totally new goods and services. Therefore, the educational systems should
adapt their programs to the future needs of an uncertain labor market. In particular, mathematics
will play a key role in future jobs and there is a strong need to connect its teaching methodologies to
the new technological scene. This work uses the STEAM approach (science, technology, engineering,
arts and mathematics) along with active methodologies and educational robotics with the aim of
developing a new strategy for the application of mathematics and physics in an engineering degree.
In particular, a transportation challenge is posed to tackle the teaching–learning process of the Bézier
curves and their applications in physics. A pilot project is developed using a LEGO EV3 robot and an
active methodology, where students become the center of the learning process. The experimental
results of the pilot study indicate an increase in the motivation due to the use of robots and the
realistic context of the challenge
A new Aphid genus and species (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Macrosiphini) living on ferns in Costa Rica and Mexico
P. 509-520Aphid species colonising ferns belong to the subfamily Aphidinae (Hemiptera:
Aphididae) and the majority of these to the tribe Macrosiphini. A new genus in this tribe and its type
species: Gibbomyzus pteridophytorum new genus, new species, are established. Apterous and alate
viviparous females are described from specimens collected on Blechnum buchtienii Rosenstock
(Blechnaceae) in Costa Rica and on Pteridium aquilinum (Linnaeus) Kuhn (Dennstaedtiaceae) and an
unidentified fern in Mexico. The taxonomic validity of the two new taxa is discussed based on
morphological and molecular data. Morphologically, the new genus is compared with genera with
swollen siphunculi recorded in the New World, and also with genera living on ferns anywhere in the
world. The identification key by Blackman and Eastop to aphids living on ferns is modified. Molecular
analyses were carried out on the sequences of a fragment of the mitochondrial gene encoding for
cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 and of a fragment of the nuclear gene encoding elongation factor-1
alpha. In both analyses, G. pteridophytorum new species sequences showed considerable divergence
(,4% or more) from those of 23 other species from diverse genera of Macrosiphini, supporting the
conclusions of the morphological study and justifying the establishment of the new genusS
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