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On the instability of competitive equilibrium: a further example
It is shown that a Walrasian price adjustment process fails to converge to an equilibrium in an exchange economy with three consumers and three commodities, where each consumer has a quasilinear utility function, desires only two commodities, and demands positive amounts of both commodities. The instability is due to weak substitution effects in addition to asymmetrical income effects.Exchange economy, Instability, Quasilinear utility
Labor Supply and the Demand for Child Care: An Intertemporal Approach
In this paper, we present a model of a one parentâone child household where parental decisions on labor supply, leisure, and the demand for private and public child care are simultaneously endogenized and intertemporally determined. We characterize the path of the optimal decisions and investigate the impact of various public child care fees and of the quality of public child care services on the parentâs time allocation and the childâs performance level. Our results show that different public child care policies may induce substantially diverging effects, and reveal that each policy frequently faces a trade off between an encouragement of labor supply and an enhancement of the childâs performance.child care fees and services, demand for child care, intertemporal optimization, labor supply, leisure, parental time allocation, private and public child care, public child care policy
Relativistic mean-field model with density-dependent meson-nucleon couplings
Within the relativistic mean-field approach, we extend the Miyazaki model,
where the NN and NN interactions are modified to suppress the
couplings between positive- and negative-energy states of a nucleon in matter.
Assuming appropriate density-dependence of the meson-nucleon couplings, we
study nuclear matter and finite nuclei. The model can reproduce the observed
properties of O and Ca well. We also examine if the model is
natural.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
Does nativity matter?
The Russian Federation has experienced simultaneous declines in health and rises in international migration. Guided by the ââŹĹhealthy migrant effectâ⏠found elsewhere, we examine two questions. First, do the foreign-born in the Russian Federation exhibit better overall health than the native-born? Second, to the extent positive health selectivity exists, is it transferred to the second generation? Using the first wave of the Russian Generations and Gender Survey, our findings support the idea of positive health selection among international migrants from non-Slavic regions. The effect of migrant status, regardless of origin, diminishes when age, sex, and native language are taken into account.education, health, language, migration, Russian Federation, second generation, sex
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