107 research outputs found
Work and family: marriage, children, child gender and the work hours and earnings of West German men
We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in the German Socio-Economic Panel. Living with a partner and living with a child both have substantial positive effects on earnings and work hours. These effects persist in fixed effects models that control for correlation in time-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters - a first son increases fathers' work hours by 100 hours per year more than a first daughter. There is evidence of son preference in the probability that a German man is observed to be coresiding with a son or a daughter. Men are more likely to remain in the same household with a male child than a female child and girls are underrepresented in the raw data. Controlling for selective attrition in our labor supply model reveals that men who remain with female children are strongly positively selected (in terms of their work hours) relative to men who remain with male children
The Premium of English Proficiency in the South Korean Labor Market
In this paper, we estimate the wage premium of English skills in the Korean labor market using Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS) data. In a simple OLS model, we find
that people with some English skills in terms of self evaluation or job requirement earn 30% more than those who do not have English skills. But in a small sample of relatively young people, higher English test scores do not raise earnings. When we add SAT scores in the wage equation, there is no wage premium of English skills, and in the IV estimation, we find no English premium. These results consistently imply that while there is a large wage premium of English skills in the Korean labor market, it reflects unobservable ability for the most part. Meanwhile some of the regression results favor human capital theory over screening theory as an explanation of the nature of the wage premium of English skills
A definitive number of atoms on demand: controlling the number of atoms in a-few-atom magneto-optical trap
A few 85Rb atoms were trapped in a micron-size magneto-optical trap with a
high quadrupole magnetic-field gradient and the number of atoms was precisely
controlled by suppressing stochastic loading and loss events via real-time
feedback on the magnetic field gradient. The measured occupation probability of
single atom was as high as 99%. Atoms up to five were also trapped with high
occupation probabilities. The present technique could be used to make a
deterministic atom source.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figure
Lineshape measurement of an extreme-weak amplitude-fluctuating light source by the photon-counting-based second-order correlation spectroscopy
We demonstrate lineshape measurement of an extreme-weak amplitude fluctuating
light source by using the photon-counting-based second-order correlation
spectroscopy combined with the heterodyne technique. The amplitude fluctuation
of a finite bandwidth introduces a low-lying spectral structure in the
lineshape and thus its effect can be isolated from that of the phase
fluctuation. Our technique provides extreme sensitivity suited for
single-atom-level applications.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figure
Calibration of second-order correlation functions for non-stationary sources with a multi-start multi-stop time-to-digital converter
A novel high-throughput second-order-correlation measurement system is
developed which records and makes use of all the arrival times of photons
detected at both start and stop detectors. This system is suitable particularly
for a light source having a high photon flux and a long coherence time since it
is more efficient than conventional methods by an amount equal to the product
of the count rate and the correlation time of the light source. We have used
this system in carefully investigating the dead time effects of detectors and
photon counters on the second-order correlation function in the two-detector
configuration. For a non-stationary light source, distortion of original signal
was observed at high photon flux. A systematic way of calibrating the
second-order correlation function has been devised by introducing a concept of
an effective dead time of the entire measurement system.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
Observation of sub-Poisson photon statistics in the cavity-QED microlaser
We have measured the second-order correlation function of the cavity-QED
microlaser output and observed a transition from photon bunching to
antibunching with increasing average number of intracavity atoms. The observed
correlation times and the transition from super- to sub-Poisson photon
statistics can be well described by gain-loss feedback or enhanced/reduced
restoring action against fluctuations in photon number in the context of a
quantum microlaser theory and a photon rate equation picture. However, the
theory predicts a degree of antibunching several times larger than that
observed, which may indicate the inadequacy of its treatment of atomic velocity
distributions.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Multimodality Imaging Can Help to Doubt, Diagnose and Follow-Up Cardiac Mass
Primary cardiac lymphoma is a very rare form of lymphoma primarily or mainly involving the heart, as in the two cases presented in this report. Various imaging modalities, including coronary computed tomography angiography, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography were useful for the characterization and diagnosis of cardiac mass. Pathologic confirmation was successful with endomyocardial biopsy under echocardiographic guidance, intra- and extracardiacally. In primary cardiac lymphoma, diagnosis using multiple modalities may be useful for mass characterization, and for response monitoring after chemotherapy
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