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Trade and Workers: Evidence from the Philippines
We combine labor force survey data with trade and production data to examine the impact of trade on wages and employment in the Philippines' manufacturing section. Our main finding are as follows. First, in contrast to findings typically reported for Latin American countries, our data indicate that wage inequality in the Philippines' manufacturing sector has declined over the period in which trade liberalization has been undertaken. This is despite the fact that reductions in tariff rates were largest in less skill intensive manufacturing industries. There has also been an absence of any secular rise in returns to higher education. Second, tariff reductions have been associated with declines in industry wage premiums in capital-intensive industries. Moreover, these declines appear to have been largest for skilled workers. Finally, tariff reductions have had an insignificant effect on both employment as well as the average hours of work of full-time employees across industries. These findings are consistent with a scenario where workers in capital-intensive industries, especially the more skilled ones, earned rents prior to trade liberalization; liberalization may have worked to erode these.
Representations of Hopf Ore extensions of group algebras and pointed Hopf algebras of rank one
In this paper, we study the representation theory of Hopf-Ore extensions of
group algebras and pointed Hopf algebras of rank one over an arbitrary field
. Let H=kG(\chi, a,\d) be a Hopf-Ore extension of and a rank one
quotient Hopf algebra of , where is a field, is a group, is a
central element of and is a -valued character for with
. We first show that the simple weight modules over and
are finite dimensional. Then we describe the structures of all simple weight
modules over and , and classify them. We also consider the
decomposition of the tensor product of two simple weight modules over into
the direct sum of indecomposable modules. Furthermore, we describe the
structures of finite dimensional indecomposable weight modules over and
, and classify them. Finally, when is a primitive -th root of
unity for some , we determine all finite dimensional indecomposable
projective objects in the category of weight modules over .Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1206.394
Laser Cooling of 85Rb Atoms to the Recoil Temperature Limit
We demonstrate the laser cooling of 85Rb atoms in a two-dimensional optical
lattice. We follow the two-step degenerate Raman sideband cooling scheme
[Kerman et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 439 (2000)], where a fast cooling of atoms
to an auxiliary state is followed by a slow cooling to a dark state. This
method has the advantage of independent control of the heating rate and cooling
rate from the optical pumping beam. We operate the lattice at a Lamb-Dicke
parameter eta=0.45 and show the cooling of spin-polarized 85Rb atoms to the
recoil temperature in both dimension within 2.4 ms with the aid of adiabatic
cooling
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