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The Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor
This paper presents a theory where increases in female labor force participation and reductions in the gender wage-gap are generated as part of a single process of demographic transition, characterized by reductions in mortality and fertility. The paper suggests a link between changes in mortality and transformations in the role of women in society that has not been identified before in the literature. Mortality reductions affect the incentives of individuals to invest in human capital and to have children. Particularly, gains in adult longevity reduce fertility, increase investments in market human capital, increase female labor force participation, and reduce the wage differential between men and women. Child mortality reductions, though reducing fertility, do not generate this same pattern of changes. The model reconciles the increase in female labor market participation with the timing of age-specific mortality reductions observed during the demographic transition. It generates changes in fertility, labor market attachment, and the gender wage-gap as part of a single process of social transformation, triggered by reductions in mortality.
Anisotropy and percolation threshold in a multifractal support
Recently a multifractal object, , was proposed to study percolation
properties in a multifractal support. The area and the number of neighbors of
the blocks of show a non-trivial behavior. The value of the
probability of occupation at the percolation threshold, , is a function
of , a parameter of which is related to its anisotropy. We
investigate the relation between and the average number of neighbors of
the blocks as well as the anisotropy of
Fourier Eigenfunctions, Uncertainty Gabor Principle and Isoresolution Wavelets
Shape-invariant signals under Fourier transform are investigated leading to a
class of eigenfunctions for the Fourier operator. The classical uncertainty
Gabor-Heisenberg principle is revisited and the concept of isoresolution in
joint time-frequency analysis is introduced. It is shown that any Fourier
eigenfunction achieve isoresolution. It is shown that an isoresolution wavelet
can be derived from each known wavelet family by a suitable scaling.Comment: 6 pages, XX Simp\'osio Bras. de Telecomunica\c{c}\~oes, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, 2003. Fixed typo
An extended formalism for preferential attachment in heterogeneous complex networks
In this paper we present a framework for the extension of the preferential
attachment (PA) model to heterogeneous complex networks. We define a class of
heterogeneous PA models, where node properties are described by fixed states in
an arbitrary metric space, and introduce an affinity function that biases the
attachment probabilities of links. We perform an analytical study of the
stationary degree distributions in heterogeneous PA networks. We show that
their degree densities exhibit a richer scaling behavior than their homogeneous
counterparts, and that the power law scaling in the degree distribution is
robust in presence of heterogeneity
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