EU labour market behaviour during the Great Recession

This paper provides an analysis of the labour market adjustment to the 2008-2009 recession in terms of employment, unemployment, hours worked and wages. It highlights differences in the response of employment and unemployment across countries and different socioeconomic groups. For all EU Member States, it provides evidence of the developments during the crisis of the monthly job finding and separation rates. This helps to assess whether the increase in unemployment is due to an increase of job separation or to a decline in the job finding rate. The paper discusses the risks of jobless growth and compares the dynamics of unemployment and employment across different periods. It provides evidence of an asymmetric response over the cycle, with recessions being characterised by more job destruction than by job creation in the following recoveries. The analysis of the wage dynamics during the recession suggests that there has been an adjustment in the compensation per employee led by the variable component; yet, this has not been sufficient to avoid the increase in the nominal unit labour costs due to labour hoarding.Unemployment, Workers' flows, job separation, job finding rate, Okun's law,

EU labour market behaviour during the Great Recession

This paper provides an analysis of the labour market adjustment to the 2008-2009 recession. It highlights differences in the response of employment and unemployment across countries and different socioeconomic groups. For all EU Member States, it provides evidence of the developments during the crisis of the monthly job finding and separation rates. This helps to assess whether the increase in unemployment is due to an increase of job separation or to a decline in the job finding rate. The paper discusses the risks of jobless growth and compares the dynamics of unemployment and employment across different periods. It provides evidence of an asymmetric response over the cycle, with recessions being characterised by more job destruction than by job creation in the following recoveries. The analysis of the wage dynamics suggests that there has been an adjustment in the compensation per employee led by the variable component; yet, this has not been sufficient to avoid the increase in the nominal unit labour costs due to labour hoarding.european union eu recession labour markets unemeployment Workers' flows job separation job finding rate Okun's law arpaia curci

Simulation of Supersymmetric Models with a Local Nicolai Map

We study the numerical simulation of supersymmetric models having a local Nicolai map. The mapping can be regarded as a stochastic equation and its numerical integration provides an algorithm for the simulation of the original model. In this paper, the method is discussed in details and applied to examples in 0+1 and 1+1 dimensions.Comment: 18 pages, REVTeX + 2 PostScript figure

EU labour market behaviour during the Great Recession

This paper provides an analysis of the labour market adjustment to the 2008-2009 recession in terms of employment, unemployment, hours worked and wages. It highlights differences in the response of employment and unemployment across countries and different socioeconomic groups. For all EU Member States, it provides evidence of the developments during the crisis of the monthly job finding and separation rates. This helps to assess whether the increase in unemployment is due to an increase of job separation or to a decline in the job finding rate. The paper discusses the risks of jobless growth and compares the dynamics of unemployment and employment across different periods. It provides evidence of an asymmetric response over the cycle, with recessions being characterised by more job destruction than by job creation in the following recoveries. The analysis of the wage dynamics during the recession suggests that there has been an adjustment in the compensation per employee led by the variable component; yet, this has not been sufficient to avoid the increase in the nominal unit labour costs due to labour hoarding.Unemployment, Workers’ flows, job separation, job finding rate, Okun’s law

Morale of mental health professionals in Community Mental Health Services of a Northern Italian Province.

Publisher version: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=EPSAIMS: To explore morale of psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses working in Community Mental Health Centres (CMHC) in an Italian Province, and identify influential factors. METHODS: Thirty psychiatrists and 30 nurses working in CMHCs in Modena completed questionnaires on burnout, team identity and job satisfaction. They also answered open questions about different aspects of their work. Answers were subjected to content analysis. Regression analyses were used to identify factors that predicted morale across groups. RESULTS: Psychiatrists had higher scores on emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation. There were no significant differences between the two groups in job satisfaction and job or role perception. Professionals reported positive relationships with patients as the most enjoyable aspects of their job, whilst team conflicts and high workloads were seen as most difficult to cope with. Multivariate analyses showed that being a psychiatrist and perceiving team conflicts as a main cause of pressure in the job predicted higher burnout. CONCLUSIONS: Simple open questions coupled with quantitative measures appear a promising tool to investigate morale of mental health professionals and identify factors determining morale. Research, training and service development should focus on relationship aspects both with patients and within teams to reduce burnout in CMHCs

Topological aspects in non-Abelian gauge theory

We discuss the BRST cohomology and exhibit a connection between the Hodge decomposition theorem and the topological properties of a two dimensional free non-Abelian gauge theory having no interaction with matter fields. The topological nature of this theory is encoded in the vanishing of the Laplacian operator when equations of motion are exploited. We obtain two sets of topological invariants with respect to BRST and co-BRST charges on the two dimensional manifold and show that the Lagrangian density of the theory can be expressed as the sum of terms that are BRST- and co-BRST invariants.Comment: (1+11) pages, LaTeX, no figure

Diseño y cálculo de obras de ingeniería sanitaria

El presente informe busca describir las principales actividades desarrolladas por uno de los alumnos de la Carrera de Ingeniería Civil durante la realización de la Práctica Profesional Supervisada (PPS). La misma fue llevada a cabo desde octubre a diciembre de 2017 en la consultora privada “IASA Ingeniería & Ambiente" y consistió en aplicar las competencias logradas durante el pasaje por la facultad en proyectos de índole profesional. La empresa se dedica a diseñar proyectos de saneamiento, con lo cual se emplearon mayormente los conocimientos técnico-profesionales obtenidos en la asignatura "Ingeniería Sanitaria". En este marco, fue de suma importancia emplear el criterio ingenieril en la toma de decisiones y manejar diferentes herramientas de software, aptitudes que se aprenden durante toda la carrera. El informe está dividido en dos secciones principales. En la primera se describe la empresa y su organización, mientras que en la segunda sección, se detallan las actividades desempeñadas durante la práctica profesional.Fil: Curci, Alejandro. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ingeniería

One loop renormalization of the non-local gauge invariant operator min_U (A^U_mu)^2 in QCD

We compute the one loop anomalous dimension of the gauge invariant dimension two operator min_U (A^U_mu)^2, where U is an element of the gauge group, by exploiting Zwanziger's expansion of the operator in terms of gauge invariant non-local n leg operators. The computation is performed in an arbitrary linear covariant gauge and the cancellation of the gauge parameter in the final anomalous dimension is demonstrated explicitly. The result is equivalent to the one loop anomalous dimension of the local dimension two operator (A^a_mu)^2 in the Landau gauge.Comment: 8 latex page

Non-Forward and Unequal Mass Virtual Compton Scattering

We discuss the general operator product expansion of a non-forward unequal mass virtual compton scattering scattering amplitude. We find that the expansion now should be done in double moments with new moment variables. There are in the expansion new sets of leading twist operators which have overall derivatives, and they mix under renormalization. We compute the evolution kernels from which the anomalous dimensions for these operators can be extracted. We also obtain the lowest order Wilson Coefficients. In the high energy limit we find the explicit form of the dominant contributing anomalous dimensions and solve the resulting renormalization group equation. We find the same high energy behavior as indicated by the conventional double leading logarithmic analysis.Comment: 11 pages, RevTex, 3 figure

Three essays in urban economics

Cities are central to the live of the majority of the human population. While the proportion of people moving to cities has increased steadily, the population living in city centers has decreased in many developing and developed countries. My thesis focuses in understanding what are the causes and consequences of different urban developments. A question I tackle in my research is what are the effects of firm and residential density. In the first chapter of my thesis (The Taller the Better? Agglomeration Determinants and Urban Structure), I estimate the productivity gains of an extreme form of urban density: skyscrapers in cities. In the second chapter of my thesis (Vertical and Horizontal Cities: in Which Direction Should Cities Grow?), I combine both data and theory in order to structurally estimate the effects of different city development on productivity and amenities. I show that cities that are more vertically developed have higher level of amenities. A second strand of my thesis focuses on understanding how people and firms decide to locate inside cities. In particular, in the third chapter of my thesis (Flight from Urban Blight: Lead Poisoning, Crime and Suburbanization), joint with Federico Masera, we provide causal evidence that crime has been an important reason to explain suburbanization of U.S. cities.Programa de Doctorado en Economía por la Universidad Carlos III de MadridPresidente: Stephen Gibbons ; Secretario: Jan Leonard Stuhler ; Vocal: Nathaniel Baum-Sno