Economist and sociologist Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923) developed a general theory of social inequality inspired by his discovery of similarities in the shape of the income distribution across societies. Pareto’s approach is characterized by (1) a focus on individual, continuous income variation rather than discrete classes; (2) attention paid to the entire socio-economic distribution rather than...

Economists have observed a shift in productivity growth from IT-producing to IT-using industries after the dot-com bust, but the causes of this shift remain unexplained. This paper uses fine-grained data on IT labor movements from online resume databases to track the flow of skills out of IT producing firms after the dot-com bust, and to test the hypothesis that a reallocation of these technica...

A term baby boy was born by spontaneous vaginal delivery to a 34 year-old G4 P2 to 3 mother. Pregnancy was complicated by insulin-dependent gestational diabetes. There were good fetal movements throughout gestation. Labor was induced for decreased amniotic fluid. The second stage of labor (pushing) lasted for five hours, with mild fetal heart rate decelerations. Meconium stained fluid was noted...

This research is motivated by problems in urban transportation and labor mobility, where the agent flow is dynamic, non-deterministic and on a large scale. In such domains, even though the individual agents do not have an identity of their own and do not explicitly impact other agents, they have implicit interactions with other agents. While there has been much research in handling such implici...

Queer Career opens with a reflection on work's contradictions. While jobs impose discipline and mandate conformity, workers also hope to find fulfillment express their individuality while the clock. Labor force segmentation mirrors social disparities, but workplaces are sites where diverse people converge collaborate. The tensions in this abstracted meditation—between exploitation authenticity,...

We propose and demonstrate a simple method for guiding researchers in developing quantitative models of economic fluctuations. We show that a large class of models are equivalent to a prototype growth model with time-varying wedges that resemble time-varying productivity, labor taxes, and capital income taxes. We use data to measure these wedges, called efficiency, labor, and investment wedges,...

Correspondence: [email protected] Universitetsvägen 10B 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden Abstract Evolutionary theories of organizational change aim at finding processes that introduce structural variations in organizational variables and the conditions under which they can survive and be reproduced. However, the theory is limited by the lack of knowledge on interactions between organizat...

Correspondence: [email protected] Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Abstract Evolutionary theories of organizational change aim at finding processes that introduce structural variations in organizational variables and the conditions under which they can survive and be reproduced. However, the theory is limited by the lack of knowledge on interactions ...

A MOTION CONTROL SCHEME FOR ANIMATING EXPRESSIVE ARM MOVEMENTS Diane M. Chi Supervisor: Norman I. Badler Current methods for gure animation involve a tradeo between the level of realism captured in the movements and the ease of generating the animations. We introduce a motion control paradigm that circumvents this tradeo |it provides the ability to generate a wide range of natural-looking movem...