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Some remarks on modified power entropy
The aim of this note is to point out some observations concerning modified
power entropy of - and -actions. First, we provide an elementary
example showing that this quantity is sensitive to transient dynamics, and
therefore does not satisfy a variational principle. Further, we show that
modified power entropy is not suitable to detect the break of equicontinuity
which takes place during the transition from almost periodic to almost
automorphic minimal systems. In this respect, it differs from power entropy and
amorphic complexity, which are two further topological invariants for zero
entropy systems (`slow entropies'). Finally, we construct an example of an
irregular Toeplitz flow with zero modified power entropy.Comment: 17 pages, to appear in AMS Contemporary Mathematics serie
Coupled skinny baker's maps and the Kaplan-Yorke conjecture
The Kaplan-Yorke conjecture states that for "typical" dynamical systems with
a physical measure, the information dimension and the Lyapunov dimension
coincide. We explore this conjecture in a neighborhood of a system for which
the two dimensions do not coincide because the system consists of two uncoupled
subsystems. We are interested in whether coupling "typically" restores the
equality of the dimensions. The particular subsystems we consider are skinny
baker's maps, and we consider uni-directional coupling. For coupling in one of
the possible directions, we prove that the dimensions coincide for a prevalent
set of coupling functions, but for coupling in the other direction we show that
the dimensions remain unequal for all coupling functions. We conjecture that
the dimensions prevalently coincide for bi-directional coupling. On the other
hand, we conjecture that the phenomenon we observe for a particular class of
systems with uni-directional coupling, where the information and Lyapunov
dimensions differ robustly, occurs more generally for many classes of
uni-directionally coupled systems (also called skew-product systems) in higher
dimensions.Comment: 33 pages, 3 figure
The German-Czech Border Region after the Fall of the Iron Curtain : Effects on the Labour Market
Using the IAB Employment Sample (IABS) covering 1980-2001 we investigate what impact the fall of the Iron Curtain has had on the skill structure of employment and wages in the western German districts neighbouring the Czech Republic. The introduction of free trade in this region, which has one of the world´s largest spatial wage differentials, can be seen as a natural experiment. We presume that changes in skill and wage structures are particularly apparent in the regions situated immediately on the open border. Distinguishing three skill categories we obtain unexpected results. Though we observe a general shift from low-skilled jobs towards skilled jobs and a convergence trend of border regions towards the national average, we do not find a special effect for the period after the opening of the border, neither concerning the skill structure nor the wage differentials. -- Unter Verwendung von Daten der IAB-Regionalstichprobe (IABS) untersuchen wir, ob nach dem Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs Qualifizierungstrends und Lohnentwicklung in den bayerischen Grenzregionen zu Tschechien signifikante Unterschiede im Vergleich mit der Entwicklung auf aggregierter staatlicher Ebene aufweisen. Der Trend zu höherer Qualifizierung sowie der Trend zu höheren relativen Löhnen für besser Qualifizierte sollten dort überdurchschnittlich messbar sein. Unsere Resultate können einen speziellen Grenzöffnungseffekt jedoch weder bei der Qualifikationsstruktur noch bei der relativen Lohnentwicklung in der Grenzregion feststellen.border regions,international trade,employment,wage inequality
The German-Czech border region after the fall of the Iron Curtain: Effects on the labour market : an empirical study using the IAB Employment Sample (IABS)
"Using the IAB Employment Sample (IABS) covering 1980-2001 we investigate what impact the fall of the Iron Curtain has had on the skill structure of employment and wages in the western German districts neighbouring the Czech Republic. The introduction of free trade in this region, which has one of the world's largest spatial wage differentials, can be seen as a natural experiment. We presume that changes in skill and wage structures are particularly apparent in the regions situated immediately on the open border. Distinguishing three skill categories we obtain unexpected results. Though we observe a general shift from low-skilled jobs towards skilled jobs and a convergence trend of border regions towards the national average, we do not find a special effect for the period after the opening of the border, neither concerning the skill structure nor the wage differentials." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))Grenzgebiet, Qualifikationsstruktur, Lohnhöhe, osteuropäischer Transformationsprozess - Auswirkungen, IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe, Bayern, Tschechische Republik, Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Thermodynamic formalism for transient dynamics on the real line
We develop a new thermodynamic formalism to investigate the transient
behaviour of maps on the real line which are skew-periodic
-extensions of expanding interval maps. Our main focus lies in the
dimensional analysis of the recurrent and transient sets as well as in
determining the whole dimension spectrum with respect to -escaping
sets. Our results provide a one-dimensional model for the phenomenon of a
dimension gap occurring for limit sets of Kleinian groups. In particular, we
show that a dimension gap occurs if and only if we have non-zero drift and we
are able to precisely quantify its width as an application of our new
formalism.Comment: 23 pages, 5 figure
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