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11 January, 2016

Completed: Immigrant responses to xenophobia and discrimination in the Swedish labor market

What strategies do those born abroad use to handle xenophobia and discrimination in the labor market? Are there differences due to gender or class?

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07 September, 2015

Richard Bradley: Confidence and probability. Climate change assessments and policy decision making

Richard Bradley, professor at the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science ABSTRACTThe periodic assessment reports of  the Intergovernment

Richard Bradley, professor at the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science
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24 October, 2016
Richard Bradley on climate change assessments and policy decision making podcast

Richard Bradley on climate change assessments and policy decision making

This is a recording from a research seminar at the Institute for Futures Studies in February 2016. The full name of the seminar is: Confidence and probability. Climate change assessments and policy ma

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07 March, 2014

The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?

Michael Osborne, Exeter College, Oxford. We examine how susceptible jobs are to computerisation. To assess this, we begin by implementing a novel methodology to estimate the probability of computerisat

Michael Osborne, Exeter College, Oxford.
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01 January, 2011

A Weighted Configuration Model and Inhomogeneous Epidemics

2011. Journal of Statistics Physics 145:1368-1384. AbstractA random graph model with prescribed degree distribution and degree dependent edge weights is introduced. Each vertex is independently equipped

Type of publication: Journal articles |
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07 March, 2019

Should the probabilities count?

Philosophical Studies, June 2012, Volume 159, Issue 2,  pp 205–218. Online first. doi.org/10.1007/s11098-011-9698-1 Abstract When facing a choice between saving one person and saving many, some people ha

Type of publication: Journal articles | Berndt Rasmussen, Katharina
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15 May, 2013

Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, Debt, and Energy Consumption

Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland By analogy with the probability distribution of energy in statistical physics, I argue that the probability distribution of money in a closed economic system sh, Reviews of Modern Physics 81, 1703 (2009), New Journal of Physics 12, 075032 (2010).  This work is currently supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking,

Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland
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11 September, 2020

Speed and Concentration of the Covering Time for Structured Coupon Collectors

Journal of Applied Probability Abstract Let V be an n-set, and let X be a random variable taking values in the power-set of V. Suppose we are given a sequence of random coupons , where the are independe

Type of publication: Journal articles | Markström, Klas , , Falgas-Ravry, Victor & Larsson, Joel
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24 October, 2016

What Is ‘Real’ in Probabilism?

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Pages 1-15, Received 11 Dec 2015, Published online: 04 Sep 2016 Abstract This paper defends two related claims about belief: first, the claim that, unlike numerical d

Type of publication: Journal articles | Stefánsson, H. Orri
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21 December, 2009

The Geographies of Recruiting a Partner from Abroad. An Exploration of Swedish Data

Working  Paper 2009 no. 21 The chance of meeting a potential partner from abroad has expanded through international partnering websites, increasing international marriage migration. This paper explores

Type of publication: Working papers | John Östh, Maarten van Ham and Thomas Niedomysl
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