1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463804603321

Titolo

Persistence, privilege, and parenting : the comparative study of intergenerational mobility / / Timothy M. Smeeding, Robert Erikson, and Markus Jäntti, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Russell Sage Foundation, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-61044-754-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Disciplina

305.5/13

Soggetti

Social mobility

Generations - Economic aspects

Families

Cost and standard of living

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Timothy M. Smeeding, Robert Erikson, and Markus Jäntti -- Understanding the mechanisms behind intergenerational persistence : a comparison of the United States and Great Britain / Jo Blanden ... [et al.] -- Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada / Miles Corak, Lori J. Curtis, and Shelley Phipps -- Status attainment and wealth in the United States and Germany / Fabian T. Pfeffer -- Occupations and social mobility : gradational, big-class, and micro-class reproduction in comparative perspective / Jan O. Jonsson ... [et al.] -- Income-related gaps in school readiness in the United States and the United Kingdom / Jane Waldfogel and Elizabeth Washbrook -- Economic deprivation in early childhood and adult attainment : comparative evidence from Norwegian Registry data and U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics / Greg J. Duncan ... [et al.] -- Causal effects of parents' education on children's education / John Ermisch and Chiara Pronzato -- Children's cognitive ability and parents' education : distinguishing the impact of mothers and fathers / John Jerrim and John Micklewright -- Unequal giving : monetary gifts to



children across countries and over time / Julie M. Zissimopoulos and James P. Smith -- The role of social institutions in intergenerational mobility / Brian Nolan ... [et al.].

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910144152503321

Titolo

Structural Information and Communication Complexity : 11th International Colloquium , SIROCCO 2004, Smolenice Castle, Slowakia, June 21-23, 2004, Proceedings / / edited by Ratislav Královic, Ondrej Sykora

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2004

ISBN

1-280-30785-4

9786610307852

3-540-27796-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2004.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 303 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 1611-3349 ; ; 3104

Disciplina

004.36

Soggetti

Computer networks

Algorithms

Computer science - Mathematics

Discrete mathematics

Artificial intelligence - Data processing

Computer Communication Networks

Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science

Data Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Traffic Grooming in a Passive Star WDM Network -- The Price of Anarchy in All-Optical Networks -- Morelia Test: Improving the Efficiency of the Gabriel Test and Face Routing in Ad-Hoc Networks -- Path Layout on Tree Networks: Bounds in Different Label Switching Models -- On Approximability of the Independent Set Problem for Low Degree Graphs -- Asynchronous Broadcast in Radio Networks -- Two-



Hop Virtual Path Layout in Tori -- Robot Convergence via Center-of-Gravity Algorithms -- F-Chord: Improved Uniform Routing on Chord -- Swapping a Failing Edge of a Shortest Paths Tree by Minimizing the Average Stretch Factor -- Improved Bounds for Optimal Black Hole Search with a Network Map -- Sparse Additive Spanners for Bounded Tree-Length Graphs -- No-Hole L(p,0) Labelling of Cycles, Grids and Hypercubes -- Existence of Nash Equilibria in Selfish Routing Problems -- Mobile Agents Rendezvous When Tokens Fail -- Time Efficient Gossiping in Known Radio Networks -- Long-Lived Rambo: Trading Knowledge for Communication -- Fault Tolerant Forwarding and Optical Indexes: A Design Theory Approach -- Tighter Bounds on Feedback Vertex Sets in Mesh-Based Networks -- Perfect Token Distribution on Trees -- Approximation Algorithm for Hotlink Assignment in the Greedy Model -- Optimal Decision Strategies in Byzantine Environments -- Sharing the Cost of Multicast Transmissions in Wireless Networks -- NP-Completeness Results for All-Shortest-Path Interval Routing -- On-Line Scheduling of Parallel Jobs -- The Range Assignment Problem in Static Ad-Hoc Networks on Metric Spaces.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2004, held in Smolenice Castle, Slowakia in June 2004.The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions.