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David S. Loughran Ashlesha Datar M. Rebecca Kilburn 《Review of Economics of the Household》2008,6(3):223-242
The theoretical and empirical literature on parental investment focuses on whether child-specific parental investments reinforce
or compensate for a child’s initial endowments. However, many parental investments, such as neighborhood quality and family
size and structure, are shared wholly or in part among all children in a household. The empirical results of this paper imply
that such household parental investments compensate for low endowments, as proxied by low birth weight.
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M. Rebecca KilburnEmail: |
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Anna Amilon 《Review of Economics of the Household》2007,5(4):385-404
This paper views temporary parental leave (leave from work to take care of a sick child) as a household public good, produced
with time inputs of the parents as the only input. Assuming equal productivities in the production of temporary parental leave
and equal utility functions of the spouses, different household decision-making processes are applied to develop theoretical
hypotheses on sharing that are thereafter tested empirically. The empirical estimations show that the decision-making process
of the spouses can be explained by a Stackelberg model with male dominance. A stronger threat-point of the female is found
to push the intra household allocation of temporary parental leave towards greater sharing between the spouses. In addition,
an increase in the insurance ceiling will further sharing of temporary parental leave in some families, while reducing it
in others.
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Anna AmilonEmail: |
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Human Capital,Social Support,and Economic Well-being among Rural,Low-income Mothers: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis 总被引:7,自引:7,他引:0
Leigh Ann Simmons Bonnie Braun David W. Wright Scott R. Miller 《Journal of Family and Economic Issues》2007,28(4):635-652
The purpose of this study was to better understand human capital and social support in the long-term economic well-being of
rural, low-income mothers in the US. Three waves of data from a multi-state, longitudinal investigation tracking the well-being
of rural families, known as “Rural Families Speak,” were used to test two latent growth curve models of economic well-being.
Results indicated that human capital alone is not a good predictor of economic well-being over time for this sample. A model
of economic well-being that includes both social support and human capital provides a better fit for these data. Findings
suggest that social support is a key contributor to long-term economic success for this sample. Implications for public policy
are presented.
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Scott R. MillerEmail: |
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This paper analyzes nature protection by a social planner under different ‘utilitarian’ social welfare functions. For that purpose we construct an integrated model of the economy and the ecosystem with explicit consideration of nonhuman species and with competition between human and nonhuman species for land and prey biomass. We characterize and compare the efficient allocations when social welfare is anthropocentric (only consumers have positive welfare weights), when social welfare is biocentric (only nonhuman species have positive welfare weights) and when social welfare is nonanthropocentric (all species have positive welfare weights). Not surprisingly, biocentric social welfare calls for suspending all economic activities. It is more important, however, that both anthropocentrism and nonanthropocentrism make the case for nature protection through different channels, though. Our analysis suggests that one may dispense with the concept of nonanthropocentric social welfare provided that in the anthropocentric framework the consumers' intrinsic valuation of nature is properly accounted for.
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Thomas Eichner (Corresponding author)Email: |
Rüdiger PethigEmail: |
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In this paper we consider the issue of the intra-household distribution of welfare directly using a survey measure of self-perceived
economic well-being. We develop a theoretical model of satisfaction within the household for couples. In the empirical analysis
we find that husbands and wives often report different levels of financial satisfaction. The most important correlate of relative
satisfaction within the household is found to be relative income. This is a direct confirmation of the previously implicit
findings and is predicted by our theoretical model.
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Martin BrowningEmail: |
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Xiaomin Chen 《Transition Studies Review》2009,16(2):421-428
The legal transitions of private ownership from being admitted limitedly to being protected equally with public ownership,
and of the peasants’ right on rural lands from a contractual right to the right in rem, are almost the same process of social reform. And in the interaction of social development and legislation, the law has
taken on an increasing role in social transition.
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Xiaomin ChenEmail: |
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We test the hypothesis that in an economic recovery, unionization negatively affects job creation. We examine state-level
job growth following two recent recessions, those with troughs in November 1982 and March 1991. In the five years following
the troughs, we assess whether variations across states in union membership and right-to-work laws affect the rate of job
growth. We find evidence that links union influence to slower job growth during an economic recovery, a finding consistent
with previous studies reporting that unions negatively affect average employment and employment growth.
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Robert KrolEmail: |
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Jane D. Poulsen 《Sociological Forum》2006,21(1):3-30
This paper contributes to research examining class formation processes among capitalists by analyzing the fracturing of multiemployer collective bargaining associations in the U.S. coal mining and steel industries. The paper evaluates three theories of bargaining decentralization and offers an alternative account. Analyzing both the earlier stability of multiemployer bargaining and its subsequent decline, the paper attributes decentralization to changes in relationships of interdependence and power among unionized firms. While broad processes of economic restructuring gave rise to these shifts, social processes involving conflict and negotiation determined the specific direction of institutional change.
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Jane D. PoulsenEmail: |
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Bruce E. Kaufman 《Journal of Labor Research》2008,29(3):285-299
The most famous and influential diagram in modern (neoclassical) labor economics is the model of wage determination by supply
and demand. Using concepts and ideas from institutional economics, I argue that the theory of a perfectly competitive labor
market is logically contradictory and, hence, the demand/supply diagram cannot exist on the plane of pure theory. Four other
fundamental theorems concerning labor markets are also derived, as are implications about the theoretical foundation of the
field of industrial relations and the economic evaluation of labor and employment policy.
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Bruce E. KaufmanEmail: |
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Money Matters: Young Adults’ Perception of the Economic Consequences of their Parents’ Divorce 总被引:3,自引:3,他引:0
Dorit Eldar-Avidan Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia Charles W. Greenbaum 《Journal of Family and Economic Issues》2008,29(1):74-85
A qualitative study examined the perceptions of 22 Israeli young adults (ages 20–25) of childhood parental divorce. Respondents
discussed their experiences, including economic consequences of the divorce. Results related to the practical aspect of economic
decline, to economic issues as embodiment of parental conflicts, and to children’s emotional and practical roles connected
to economic changes. Children’s understanding and coping with financial issues are related to three profiles of overall adjustment
identified in this study—resilience, survival, and vulnerability. Resilient young adults interpreted as empowering their understanding
and coping; the survivors recognized their efforts as meaningful but burdensome; and vulnerable participants felt that economic changes caused a heavy
financial and emotional price. Limitations and implications are discussed.
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Charles W. GreenbaumEmail: |
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Annie Fahy 《Clinical Social Work Journal》2007,35(3):199-205
Current research has determined that a larger percent of social workers and other counselors are affected by PTSD types of
symptoms when working with traumatized clients than the general population. While much of this research addresses workers
in specific trauma areas like sexual assault centers or child welfare agencies, little specific thought has been given towards
the special stress that working with Substance Abuse Disorders (SA) and trauma may present. This paper takes a brief look
at the issues of vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue with SA practice and describes future investigation pathways toward
this goal.
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Annie FahyEmail: |
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Increased demand will intensify pressures for informal caregiving, especially for sandwiched caregivers. Using 1999, National
Long Term Care Survey data, we contrasted socio-demographic statistics, care environments, activities of daily living (ADL)
and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) assistance, life quality, and employment burden of sandwiched versus non-sandwiched
parental caregivers. Regression analysis explored variables influencing caregiving hours, employment accommodation, stress,
strain, time for self, social life limits, free time, and excess burden. We found no differences in caregiving hours, no greater
labor force accommodation, but lower quality of life among sandwiched caregivers with more than they can handle, but they undertook parent care despite quality of life reduction. Uniquely, the research indicates sandwiched caregivers’
employment mitigates stress, strain, and burden and supports policy changes providing more supportive workplace environments.
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Shelley I. White-MeansEmail: |
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Decoding nonverbal social cues involves skills such as understanding emotions and discerning kin relationships. Social cue
decoding has been described as an automatic process which does not tax cognitive resources. However, clinical deficits in
social decoding are often interpreted in terms of deficits in attention and working memory. Two experiments are described
which used dual task methodology to investigate the role of working memory in dynamic social cue decoding tasks: the Interpersonal
Perception Task (IPT, Experiment 1) and the Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity (PONS, Experiment 2). Results revealed that decoding
social cues from the IPT did not require working memory resources, while social perception in the PONS made heavy demands
on working memory. Implications for theoretical interpretation of these tasks and their use in clinical populations are discussed.
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Louise H. PhillipsEmail: |
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In the late twentieth century, many social scientists and other social commentators came to characterize the world as evolving
into an “information society.” Central to these claims was the notion that new social uses of information, and particularly
application of scientific knowledge, are transforming social life in fundamental ways. Among the supposed transformations
are the rise of intellectuals in social importance, growing productivity and prosperity stemming from increasingly knowledge-based
economic activity, and replacement of political conflict by authoritative, knowledge-based decision-making. We trace these
ideas to their origins in the Enlightenment doctrines of Saint Simon and Comte, show that empirical support for them has never
been strong, and consider the durability of their social appeal.
James B. Rule is Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley. He has researched and published widely on matters relating to sociological theory and the role of information in social life. His most recent books are Theory and Progress in Social Science (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Computing in Organizations; Myth and Experience (co-authored with Debra Gimlin and Sylvia Sievers, Transaction, 2002) and Privacy in Peril (Oxford University Press, 2007). Yasemin Besen focuses on young people in the United States in her work, which combines qualitative and quantitative methods. Her research interests include teenage labor, gender, and inequality. Her work has been published in Contexts, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, NWSAJ, and Equal Opportunities International. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at Montclair State University. 相似文献
James B. Rule (Corresponding author)Email: |
Yasemin BesenEmail: |
James B. Rule is Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley. He has researched and published widely on matters relating to sociological theory and the role of information in social life. His most recent books are Theory and Progress in Social Science (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Computing in Organizations; Myth and Experience (co-authored with Debra Gimlin and Sylvia Sievers, Transaction, 2002) and Privacy in Peril (Oxford University Press, 2007). Yasemin Besen focuses on young people in the United States in her work, which combines qualitative and quantitative methods. Her research interests include teenage labor, gender, and inequality. Her work has been published in Contexts, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, NWSAJ, and Equal Opportunities International. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at Montclair State University. 相似文献
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This study analyses the relationships between export, import and economic growth for the 13 transition economies. Empirical
results show that there is a unidirectional causality from economic growth to export. Empirical findings show that the growth-led
export hypothesis is valid in those countries and growth is rather shaped by increase in import demand.
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Salih BarişikEmail: |
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The Multiple Meanings of Work for Welfare-Reliant Women 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Kerry Woodward 《Qualitative sociology》2008,31(2):149-168
Based on ethnographic and interview data collected at two welfare to work offices, this paper explores the various meanings
that welfare-reliant women give to paid work. Although studies show that welfare-reliant women support work requirements and
believe that welfare receipt should be temporary, even Progressives often fail to see the multiple meanings work has for poor
women, and how similar these are to the meanings most Americans attach to work. Not only do poor women want to work for basic
economic survival, but they view paid work as a means to family security, a path to fulfilling personal aspirations, and as
their civic responsibility.
Kerry Woodward is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests center around inequality and the intersections of race, class, and gender. Her dissertation examines the transmission of economic, social, and cultural capital in a California welfare to work program. 相似文献
Kerry WoodwardEmail: |
Kerry Woodward is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests center around inequality and the intersections of race, class, and gender. Her dissertation examines the transmission of economic, social, and cultural capital in a California welfare to work program. 相似文献
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Lucia Trimbur 《Qualitative sociology》2009,32(3):259-277
This article examines how former prisoners of color conceptualize their political, social, and economic futures and how these
conceptualizations relate to the racialized social structural obstacles encountered upon reentry and decisions to re-engage
criminal labor. I find that, presented with similar post-prison challenges, excarcerated men take several approaches when
reentering society. I argue that the differences among their approaches lie in their varying interpretations of how they can
act as individuals against and within their social structural limitations. Their decisions to rejoin or forfeit participation
in criminal economies are thus shaped by experiences confronting the limitations of material conditions but also emerge from
their critiques of racialized structures.
Lucia Trimbur is Assistant Professor of Sociology at John Jay College/ CUNY. Her research and teaching interests include race and racisms, ethnographic field methods, sociology of crime and punishment, urban inequality, and gender. 相似文献
Lucia TrimburEmail: |
Lucia Trimbur is Assistant Professor of Sociology at John Jay College/ CUNY. Her research and teaching interests include race and racisms, ethnographic field methods, sociology of crime and punishment, urban inequality, and gender. 相似文献
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Pamela Price 《Qualitative sociology》2006,29(3):301-316
The article explores political meanings in the context of recent economic and political changes in a village in south India.
Cultural constructions of political relations emerged in conversations between the author and village informants in Andhra
Pradesh. Informants perceived decline in the power and authority of former village lords and talked about the establishment
of authority in the new setting. In processes of democratization which had taken place, showing and receiving honor and respect
continued as political and social preoccupations. However, deserving honor and respect has become less a statement about political
superiority and domination and more about individual moral qualities.
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Pamela PriceEmail: |
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Jeffrey L. Kidder 《Theory and Society》2009,38(3):307-328
Over the last 30 years, social theorists have increasingly emphasized the importance of space. However, in empirical research,
the dialectical relationship between social interaction and the physical environment is still a largely neglected issue. Using
the theory of structuration, I provide a concrete example of why and how space matters in the cultural analysis of an urban
social world. I argue that bike messengers—individuals who deliver time-sensitive materials in downtown cores of major cities—cannot
be understood outside an analysis of space. Specifically, I connect the cultural significance of messenger practices to the
emplacement of those practices inside the urban environment.
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Jeffrey L. KidderEmail: |
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This paper analyzes gendered social identity in Japan and the United States, countries with comparable postindustrial economic systems but distinct cultural traditions. Using national surveys (1995), we find gender differences in value orientations to be neither systematic nor consistent. They often disappeared after controlling for demographic and human-capital variables, though not so often for Japan. Other variables proved more important predictors of values than gender, although in different ways in Japan and the United States. We conclude by reassessing the use of the term gender in social research and the cultural meaning of gender relations by addressing the feminist concerns with issues of gender location.
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Tania LeveyEmail: |