Recruitment in Recovery

Burgess (1993) finds that job finding rates for the unemployed do not move proportionately to changes in the overall hiring rate. Burgess hints at employed job seekers that start looking in tight conditions and crowd out the unemployed. But he leaves the search behaviour of firms unaddressed. Russo et al. (2000) and Russo et al. (2001), however, shows that firms switch their preferred recruitment channel in changing labour market conditions. We introduce recruitment channels in a search model and find an additional mechanism through which the unemployed obtain less than their `fair share' of the job offers. We then test our model's predictions using panel data from the Netherlands and find support for this hypothesis.employer search, job search, recruitment channels, tightness

Speed-of-light limitations in passive linear media

We prove that well-known speed of light restrictions on electromagnetic energy velocity can be extended to a new level of generality, encompassing even nonlocal chiral media in periodic geometries, while at the same time weakening the underlying assumptions to only passivity and linearity of the medium (either with a transparency window or with dissipation). As was also shown by other authors under more limiting assumptions, passivity alone is sufficient to guarantee causality and positivity of the energy density (with no thermodynamic assumptions). Our proof is general enough to include a very broad range of material properties, including anisotropy, bianisotropy (chirality), nonlocality, dispersion, periodicity, and even delta functions or similar generalized functions. We also show that the "dynamical energy density" used by some previous authors in dissipative media reduces to the standard Brillouin formula for dispersive energy density in a transparency window. The results in this paper are proved by exploiting deep results from linear-response theory, harmonic analysis, and functional analysis that had previously not been brought together in the context of electrodynamics.Comment: 19 pages, 1 figur

Fashion and the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has had a major influence on fashion in New York City and beyond ever since its founding in 1946. This presentation addressed the role of fashion in art museums; the contributions of special consultants, curators, and journalists to elevating the status of fashion history; and the Met Ball\u27s reputation for raising funds for the museum

1. Introduction to “One American Family: A Tale of North and South”

Linda Welters provided background on the Cushman family and their history in Introduction to “One American Family: A Tale of North and South.

Fashion Films

At any given moment in almost any given place, people can be seen scrolling through social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Vine. Avid fashion consumers follow brands on these websites, looking for new trends and seasonal lines that they may purchase. All fashion brands are looking to increase their presence in social media, as it is a relatively inexpensive way to reach a wide breadth of tech-savvy, affluent consumers