An optimum random-search algorithm is considered. The convergence conditions to the greatest increase (local properties) and convergence to the point of extremum (integral properties) of a function by optimizing in the presence of noise, are found. The results are used for finding a global...

This study explains the evolution of wage inequality over the last 30 years and supports this explanation with evidence. At each level of schooling, a faster rate of technological progress weakens the link between schooling and work and increases the unknown needed to cope with during one's...

This work decomposes the human capital bundle into two characteristics: "knowledge", associated with one's own education ane experience, and "general skills", associated with parent's education. Using this decomposition we provide a new set of observations on the cyclicability ofboth wages and...

An iterative algorithm is proposed for selecting the best system among a finite number of stable stochastic systems on the basis of a certain performance index. It is assumed that the stochastic processes which are associated with these systems are regenerative processes, whose characteristics...