Laurence W. Mazzeno and Sue Norton (eds), European Perspectives on John Updike

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We use a unique firm-level panel data set of multinational parents and their foreign affiliates to analyze whether profits are shared across borders within multinational firms. Using both fixed-effects and generalized method-of-moments estimators, affiliate wage levels are estimated to respond to both affiliate and parent profitability. The elasticity of affiliate wages to parent profits per wo...

John W . Rudnicki

Does Helping John Help Sue? Evidence of Spillovers in Education

Using the fact that multiple elementary schools feed into the same middle school, I demonstrate that the positive impact that teachers have on their own students spills over to affect their students’ future peers. Although this indirect effect on any particular individual is small a teacher impacts many more students indirectly than directly, so the indirect value is a sizable portion of a teac...

Analyzing the European Union citizenship through feminist perspectives

The European Union has aspired to create an “ever closer union” among its people since the articulation of the European Union citizenship has been an important instrument towards it. However, attempts at creating this “ever closer union” have focused on homogenizing European citizens as a single entity without taking into account the heterogeneous differentials among such citizens. Gender diffe...

Note on a paper of John W. Miles

The theorem X established by Miles in the preceding paper is here given a simpler and more general proof. Some further theoretical results concerning the stability of heterogeneous shear flows are also presented, in particular a demonstration that the complex wave velocity of any unstable mode must lie in a certain semicircle .