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Shifting attitudes and the labor market of minorities: Swedish experiences after 9-11
Several studies suggest that the terrorist attacks in the US on September 11, 2001, caused at least a temporary change of attitude toward certain minorities in Sweden. We study unemployment exit around 9-11 using detailed data on the entire Swedish working-age population to investigate whether this change in attitudes also affected the labor market situation of these minorities. Contrary to what to expect from many theories of labor market discrimination, the time pattern of exits and entries for different ethnic groups, as well as difference-in-differences analyses, show no sign of increased discrimination towards these minorities.Labour market discrimination; minorities; etnic groups
q-Independence of the Jimbo-Drinfeld Quantization
Let be a connected semi-simple compact Lie group and for ,
let be the Jimbo-Drinfeld
-deformation of . We show that the -completions of
are isomorphic for all values of . Moreover,
these isomorphisms are equivariant with respect to the right-action of the
maximal torus
Dangerous Voices: On Written and Spoken Discourse in Platoâs Protagoras
Platoâs Protagoras contains, among other things, three short but puzzling remarks
on the media of philosophy. First, at 328e5â329b1, Plato makes Socrates worry that
long speeches, just like books, are deceptive, because they operate in a discursive
mode void of questions and answers. Second, at 347c3â348a2, Socrates argues that
discussion of poetry is a presumptuous affair, because, the poemsâ message, just
like the message of any written text, cannot be properly examined if the author is not
present. Third, at 360e6â361d6, it becomes clear that even if the conversation
between Socrates and Protagoras was conducted by means of short questions and
answers, this spoken mode of discourse is problematic too, because it ended up
distracting the inquiry from its proper course. As this paper 2 sets out to argue, Plato
does not only make Socrates articulate these worries to exhibit the hazards of discursive commodifi cation. In line with Socratesâ warning to the young Hippocrates
of the dangers of sophistic rhetoric, and the sophistsâ practice of trading in teachings,
they are also meant to problematize the thin line between philosophical and
sophistical practice. By examining these worries in the light of how the three relevant
modes of discourse are exemplifi ed in the dialogue, this paper aims to isolate
and clarify the reasons behind them in terms of deceit, presumptuousness and distraction; and to argue that these reasons cast doubts on the common assumption that the dialogueâs primary aim is to show how sophistical rhetoric must succumb to
Socratic dialectic
Do when and where matter? Initial labor market conditions and immigrant earnings
This paper investigates the long-term effects on immigrant earnings and employment from labor market conditions encountered upon arrival. We find substantial effects both of the state of the national labor market and of local unemployment rates. Comparing refugees entering Sweden in a severe and unexpected recession to refugees arriving in a preceding economic boom, we attempt to handle the issue of selective migration. The analysis of effects at the local level exploits a governmental refugee settlement policy to get exogenous variation in local labor market conditions.Immigration; earnings: labor market conditions
Calibration Systems of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter
TileCal is the hadronic calorimeter covering the most central region of the
ATLAS experiment at the LHC. This sampling calorimeter uses iron plates as
absorber and plastic scintillating tiles as the active material. A
multi-faceted calibration system allows to monitor and equalize the calorimeter
response at each stage of the signal production, from scintillation light to
digitization. This calibration system is based on signal generation from
different sources: a Cs radioactive source, laser light, charge injection and
minimum bias events produced in proton-proton collisions. A brief description
of the different TileCal calibration systems is given and the latest results on
their performance in terms of calibration factors, linearity and stability are
presented.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. For the 32nd Symposium on Physics in Collision,
Strbske Pleso 12th - 15th September 201
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