Abstract Employment agencies aim to match individuals appropriate jobs. There are public and private employment agencies, which co-exist in many countries. Selection effects may be relevant the sense that potentially engage ‘cream-skimming’ by prioritizing highly qualified workers. The resulting job quality is also important from an individual, a firm, society perspective. We examine selection ...

We discuss the existence of a pooling equilibrium in a two-period model of an insurance market with asymmetric information. We solve the model numerically. We pay particular attention to the reasons for non-existence in cases where no pooling equilibrium exists. In addition to the phenomenon of cream skimming emphasized in earlier literature, we here point to the the importance of the opposite:...

The presence of voluntary deductibles in the Swiss and Dutch mandatory health insurance has important implications for the respective risk equalization systems. In a theoretical analysis, we discuss the consequences of equalizing three types of expenditures: the net claims that are reimbursed by the insurer, the out-of-pocket expenditures and the expenditure savings due to moral hazard reductio...

Stepped chute flows are characterised by intense turbulence and strong flow aeration (Fig. 1), but most studies did not investigate the turbulence characteristics. Detailed air-water flow properties were measured in skimming flow on a stepped chute (θ = 16o, h = 0.05 m). Longitudinal oscillations of depth-averaged flow properties were observed with a wave length of about two step cavity lengths...

Data fusion methods commonly use and compare all the documents returned by multiple retrieval systems to create a new result list. On the one hand, as documents further down in the result lists are considered, a document’s probability of being relevant decreases significantly. On the other hand, retrieval systems tend to find similar relevant documents when searching the same database, but they...

The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, or Freddie Mac. We Abstract Depository institutions may use information advantages along dimensions not observed or considered by outside parties to " cream‐skim, " meaning to transfer risk to naïve, uninformed, or unconce...

JEM-EUSO is a mission to study ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) by measuring the fluorescence light from giant air showers at the altitude of the International Space Station. In the tilted mode, JEM-EUSO will become very sensitive to the Čerenkov light from the earth skimming tau neutrinos at the energy range of 10eV. In this paper we will discuss high-energy tau neutrinos from nearby gamm...

We explore the stability of equilibrium solution(s) of a simple model of microvascular blood flow in a two-node network. The model takes the form of convection equations for red blood cell concentration, and contains two important rheological effects—the F̊ahræus–Lindqvist effect, which governs viscosity of blood flow in a single vessel, and the plasma skimming effect, which describes the separa...

In the last three decades the design of stepped spillways regained some interest because of their suitability with new construction methods including gabion placement. In this study, the hydraulic performances of gabion stepped weirs were investigated experimentally in terms of the air-water flow properties and energy dissipation rate. A physical study was performed in a relatively large size f...