Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the obligatory betweenand within-group components as well as an “overlappi...

Kick It Like Özil? Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to analyze the determinants of the persistent native-migrant gap. One part of the gap can be attributed to differences in socioeconomic background and another part remains unexplained. Faced with this decomposition problem...

Abstract The aim of this study is of the effect of structural changes in higher education on changes of output in Sistan and Baluchestan Province using structural decomposition analysis (SDA). The input-output tables of this region for the period 2006-2011 have been employed as the database of the model. The structural changes were decomposed into two factors: changes in share of specific sect...

The present paper thoroughly explores second-best efficient allocations in an adverse selection insurance economy. We start from a natural extension of the classical model, assuming less than perfect risk perceptions. We propose first and second welfare theorems, by means of which we describe efficiencyenhancing policies. Notions of weak and strong adverse selection are promising for interpreti...

In this report we present an algorithm for the decomposition of a mono-lithic LOTOS process into two processes, which composed by the parallel operator is observational equivalent to the original one. Repeated application permits the generation of more than two processes. The algorithm is deened on labelled transition systems and, hence, its application to any process algebra with a similar not...

Accounting for Labor Demand Effects in Structural Labor Supply Models When assessing the effects of policy reforms on the labor market, most studies only focus on labor supply. The interaction of supply and demand side is not explicitly modeled, which might lead to biased estimates of potential labor market outcomes. This paper proposes a straightforward method to remedy this shortcoming. We us...

Multiple cost sharing rules often coexist in seemingly identical environments. We use shared irrigation costs as a context for examining the extent to which the structural environment explains the selection of a cost-sharing rule. We find that environmental factors affecting the costs and benefits derived from irrigation, as well as those determining the distribution of irrigators along the irr...

in this paper, a boussinesq equation is solved by using the adomian's decomposition method, modified adomian's decomposition method and homotopy analysis method. the approximate solution of this equation is calculated in the form of series which its components are computed by applying a recursive relation. the existence and uniqueness of the solution and the convergence of the propose...

Structural analysis is concerned with the decomposition of traffic matrix into basis vectors, which corresponds to temporal patterns. In general, the effectiveness of basis vectors is determined by the extent to which it approximates the current week as well as subsequent consecutive week traffic matrix, i.e., the basis vectors should be temporally stable. Principal component analysis (PCA) is ...

Analysis of protein structures typically beginswith decomposition of the structure intomore basic units called structural domains. The underlying goal is to reduce a complex protein structure to a set of simpler, yet structurallymeaningful units, each ofwhich can be analyzed independently. Structural semi-independence of domains is their hallmark: domains often have compact structure that can f...