Paris West University Nanterre La Défense

About: Paris West University Nanterre La Défense is a education organization based out in Paris, France. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Finite element method. The organization has 895 authors who have published 1430 publications receiving 21712 citations.

Sticky prices, fair wages, and the co-movements of unemployment and labor productivity growth

Abstract: This paper studies the co-movements of unemployment and labor productivity growth for the U.S. economy. Measures of co-movements in the frequency domain indicate that co-movements between variables differ strongly according to the frequency. First, long-term and business cycle co-movements are larger than short-term co-movements. Second, co- movements are negative in the short and long run, but positive over the business cycle. A New Keynesian model that combines nominal rigidity on the goods market (sticky prices) and real rigidity on the labor market (fair wages) is shown to be quantitatively consistent with the observed co-movements both in the long term and over the business cycle. However, the model fails to explain the short-term co-movements.

Mass Murder Discussing Criminological Perspectives

Abstract: How do we think about mass murder? While the principle of responsibility provides an effective mechanism for the repression of mass murder (notably through Article 25 ICCSt.), analysis of the acting out of mass murder by perpetrators requires a criminological perspective. Analysis of criminogenic processes, and of genocidal logic, helps us go some way in understanding how perpetrators act out mass murder. Such an approach also leads us to identify a long silence in the social sciences: mass murder has become a legitimate field of social scientific study only recently; it also has the advantage of exposing the shortcomings of many concepts. This article deals with works focusing on mass murder and suggests new research paths in the social sciences.

Effects of the use of raised line drawings on blind people’s cognition

Abstract: In their specialized schooling, blind children are now frequently presented with raised line figures and maps. However, there is still much to do in evaluating the cognitive effects of training using these displays. The purpose of this research is to determine if the level of expertise in the haptic exploration, and the perception of the raised line materials, may enhance blind people’s spatial imagery. We have observed that in all the tasks in this study (mental rotation, mental spatial displacement and estimation of length tasks) the congenitally blind experts performed better than the early and late blind non‐experts, and that the early blind experts performed even better than the late blind non‐experts. These observations suggest that a high level of expertise in congenitally and early blind people may compensate for the impairment in spatial representation often resulting from lack of visual experience.