41 How have conceptualizations of “culture” been incorporated into sociological studies of class, racial/ethnic, and gender inequality? This article first reviews the development of American scholarship on social inequalities during the past half century and the role of cultural analysis in this development. It goes on to consider culture-related responses to three central questions in the subd...

In this paper we are concerned with the existence of optimal stationary policies for in nite horizon risk sensitive Markov control processes with denumerable state space, unbounded cost function, and long run average cost. Introducing a discounted cost dynamic game, we prove that its value function satis es an Isaacs equation, and its relationship with the risk sensitive control problem is stud...

This paper is concerned with the existence of solutions to a dynamic network equilibrium problem modelled as an innnite dimensional variational inequality. Our results are based on properties of operators that map path ow departure rates to consistent time-dependent path ows and other link performance functions. The existence result requires the introduction of a novel concept that strengthens ...

In this paper, we de ne and study a new class of optimal stochastic control problems which is closely related to the theory of Backward SDE's and forward-backward SDE's. The controlled process (X ; Y ) takes values in IRd IR and a given initial data for X (0). Then, the control problem is to nd the minimal initial data for Y so that it reaches a stochastic target at a speci ed terminal time T ....

Surprisingly, little is known about the cross-country effect of information and communication technology (ICT) on wealth inequality. At same time, there some tentative evidence suggesting that positively correlated with income However, whether how ICT affects inequality less explored, particularly because lack reliable data This paper, therefore, fills this gap contributes to new literature by ...

This paper investigates the link between domestic income inequality and international trade using a dynamic model of occupational choice. After showing how systematic patterns of comparative advantage arise among countries with no di®erences in their economic fundamentals, I provide two results regarding trade liberalization describing the full transition dynamics. First, international income d...

The problem of developing robust thresholds for fault detection is addressed. An inequality for the solution of a linear system with uncertain parameters is provided and is shown to be a valuable tool for developing dynamic threshold generators for fault detection. Such threshold generators are desirable for achieving robustness against model uncertainty in combination with sensitivity to small...

This paper investigates the construction of guaranteeing cost dynamic output feedback controller for linear discrete-time delay systems with time-varying parameter uncertainties and with exogenous disturbances. A necessary and sufficient condition for a controller to have the guaranteeing cost property is given by a nonlinear matrix inequality. As a sufficient condition, a linear matrix inequal...