Mr. Crockett: May I make an analogy and see whether it conveys any insights? In the finance field, we think of technology and liberalization as having driven the enormous changes in financial markets. Technology enables the better pricing of risk; liberalization allows risk to be more efficiently managed and traded. Could one say that something similar is taking place in labor markets? Technolo...

In the 1990s, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Brazil passed dual citizenship laws granting their expatriates the right to naturalize in the receiving country without losing their nationality of origin. I estimate the effects of these new laws on naturalization rates and labor market outcomes in the United States. Based on data from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. censuses, I f...

the purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between the intellectual capital of firms and their earnings quality. the research was conducted with 158 accepted companies and 948 firm-year observations from iran stock market. empirical studies were conducted based on hypothesis by value added intellectual coefficient as measures of intellectual capital and taking absolute value of...

monolithic method. – There is a trade-off relation between informativeness and robustness of analysis in each processing technique. • More informative  Less informative • Less robust More robust • We employ multiple complementary methods in order for our QA system to have a variety of informativeness and robustness. • Implementation: Raw score for an answer candidate AC in the i-th retrieve...

‎this paper deals with one problem that needs to be addressed in the emerging field known under the name computing with perceptions‎. ‎it is the problem of describing‎, ‎approximately‎, ‎a given fuzzy set in natural‎ ‎language‎. ‎this problem has lately been referred to as the problem of retranslation‎. ‎an approaches to ‎dealing with the retranslation problem is discussed in the paper‎, ‎that ...

One of the main predictions of principal-agent theory, the “informativeness principle”, is often violated in practice. We propose an explanation that emphasizes the role played by the change in the form of the optimal contract that follows an improvement in informativeness. We show that the overall gains from a less noisy performance measure emanate from two sources: the direct effect of a chan...