64 research outputs found
Does the growth process discriminate against older workers?
This paper seeks to gain insights on the relationship between growth and employment when considering heterogeneous agents in terms of their working horizon. Using an OECD database, our empirical estimations suggest that growth positively influences the employment rate of workers having a long working horizon (young workers) while negatively influences the employment rate of workers having a short working horizon (senior workers). We then provide theoretical foundations to this result by means of an endogenous job destruction framework a laMortensen and Pissarides (1998) where we introduce life cycle features. We show that, under the assumption of homogeneous productivity among workers, growth negatively affects the employment rate of workers having a short working horizon before retirement (senior workers) while it positively affects the employment rate of workers having a long working horizon (young workers). Numerical simulations confirm these results, however a non standard calibration is required to reproduce the elasticity values obtained in our empirical estimations
Coherent acoustic vibration of metal nanoshells
Using time-resolved pump-probe spectroscopy we have performed the first
investigation of the vibrational modes of gold nanoshells. The fundamental
isotropic mode launched by a femtosecond pump pulse manifests itself in a
pronounced time-domain modulation of the differential transmission probed at
the frequency of nanoshell surface plasmon resonance. The modulation amplitude
is significantly stronger and the period is longer than in a gold nanoparticle
of the same overall size, in agreement with theoretical calculations. This
distinct acoustical signature of nanoshells provides a new and efficient method
for identifying these versatile nanostructures and for studying their
mechanical and structural properties.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
A Monetary Model of Business Cycle with Search on the Labor Market.
This paper studies the cyclical labor market properties of a model which can account for the Phillips and Beveridge curves. Monopolistic competition and sticky prices on the good market are introduced in a labor market search model disturbed both by technological and money supply shocks. We explain the specific propagation mechanisms on the labor market related to money supply shocks and show that they are quantitatively relevant.UNEMPLOYMENT ; BUSINESS CYCLES ; PRICES
Estimation du Modele de Croissance Neoclassique et Test de ses Proprietes Cycliques sur Donnees Francaises.
cycles economiques ; croissance economique
Hot Carriers in Semiconductors
ultrafast, GaAs, hole, ..................................................................................................................................... ............ ............ ............. ......
The R.B.C. Model Through Statistical Inference an Application on French Data.
statistics ; mathematics ; cycles economiques
Labor Productivity and Business Cycle : Can R.B.C. Models Be Saved?
labour market ; productivity ; business cycles ; economic models
La methode des moments generalisees et ses extensions , theory et applications en macroeconomie.
THEORIE ECONOMIQUE;MACROECONOMIE
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