Churning Selves

Churning in the Great Recession

Churning in the Great Recession I widely appreciated that geographic mobility slowed dramatically with the Great Recession. This slowdown arose, so it’s argued, because too often owners were trapped in houses that were underwater or otherwise difficult to sell. Because they couldn’t move, they couldn’t take advantage of jobs that might be available in less depressed regions, and our labor marke...

Worker Churning and Firms’ Wage Policies

If a random firm were to increase its wages, would that decrease the firm’s churning (“excessive” worker reallocation)? Although the trade-off between wage and churning costs has received attention in both the labour and human resource management literatures, there seems to be no evidence about the causal impact of wages upon churning. This paper seeks to fill that gap by considering detailed P...

Possible Selves

The concept of possible selves is introduced to complement current conceptions of self-knowledge. Possible selves represent individuals' ideas of what they might become, what they would like to become, and what they are afraid of becoming, and thus provide a conceptual link between cognition and motivation. Possible selves are the cognitive components of hopes, fears, goals, and threats, and th...

Churning losses and efficiency in gearboxes

Efficient transmissions systems are key to producing competitive motor vehicles that have a smaller environmental impact. Gears are the main components in vehicle transmissions and although they are already highly efficient, there is still room for improvement. In this study, the focus falls on the lubricant used to create separating films between gears and to dissipate heat. When driving, the ...

True Selves, False Selves, and the Ambiguity of Authenticity