VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - This research addresses the question of how the institutional frame of “nonprofitness” shapes the civic... 相似文献
We analyze the association between spouses’ earnings taking account of non-linearities along both spouses’ distribution of earnings. We also document the non-linearity of the relationships between earnings and labor force participation, earnings and couple formation, and earnings and number of children. Using simulations, we then analyze how changes in spouses’ rank-dependence structure, labor force participation and couple formation contribute to the upsurge in inequality in the U.S between 1967 and 2018. We find that an increased tendency towards positive sorting contributed substantially to the rise in inequality only among dual-earner couples, while it contributed little to overall inequality across households. Temporal and distributional heterogeneity are important, as earnings association had a more substantial role in the bottom of the earnings distribution and in recent years. The decline in couple formation contributed substantially to the rise in inequality, while the increase in female labor force participation and the fertility decline had equalizing effects.
This article first reviews how the concept of privatisation has been referred to in the current restructuring of the social housing system, especially in the case of the UK. The term 'privatisation' is then examined in greater detail and its wider meaning is discussed. By using the network approach, privatisation in relation to housing can be understood in terms of the changing combinations of agents involved in providing social housing, which gives rise to the commodified impact on the distribution of social housing. By using the privatisation process of social housing in Taiwan as an example, three distinct combinations in terms of providing social housing are identified. With an increasing number of social housing units being provided by the marketised social housing model where private agents control the process of providing social housing, along with more market rules being involved in the provision and the partial removal of means tests in relation to the distribution of social housing, the privatisation of social housing development in Taiwan is having a major impact on equity. 相似文献
Most real decisions, unlike those of economics texts, have a status quo alternative—that is, doing nothing or maintaining one's current or previous decision. A series of decision-making experiments shows that individuals disproportionately stick with the status quo. Data on the selections of health plans and retirement programs by faculty members reveal that the status quo bias is substantial in important real decisions. Economics, psychology, and decision theory provide possible explanations for this bias. Applications are discussed ranging from marketing techniques, to industrial organization, to the advance of science. 相似文献
This paper reports on Australia's largest whistleblower study. Specifically it focuses on the experiences of whistleblowers in the Queensland public sector during the Goss Labor government's first term. Rather than being affirmed as good citizen-workers when they took disclosures of wrongdoing to their supervisors within the units in which they worked, the whistleblowers encountered obstruction and vilification. Their experiences offer a rare check-up on the state of workplace dissent. 相似文献
Correspondence to William Bradshaw, Ph.D., LICSW School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, 105 Peters Hall, 1404 Gortner Ave. St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA. E-mail: Bbradsha{at}che.umn.eduSummary Practitioner research that utilizes single-system designs andreplication studies has been promoted as a means to developpsychosocial interventions of demonstrated effectiveness. Atthe same time, there has been relatively little practitionerpublication of single-system studies. The purpose of this studywas to evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioural interventionsin the treatment of schizophrenia. The study used a single-systemmultiple baseline design across seven subjects to evaluate changein clinical outcomes. The AB design included a (A) baselinephase and (B) cognitive-behavioural intervention phase. Standardizedmeasures of psychosocial functioning, severity of symptoms andattainment of treatment goals were used to assess change overthe course of three years treatment. A pre-test/post-test designwas used to measure achievement of treatment goals. All sevenclients made statistically significant improvement in psychosocialfunctioning when the baseline mean was compared to the interventionmean. The average effect size for the seven cases was 2.96.All seven clients made a statistically significant reductionin severity of psychiatric symptoms when the baseline mean wascompared to the intervention mean. The average effect size forthe seven cases was -2.19. All seven clients exceeded the expectedlevel of attainment of treatment goals. The pre-test averagegoal attainment score for the seven cases was 20.65 (sd = .55).The average post-test score was 71 (sd = 8). Directions forfuture research and the applicability of single-system designsfor the practitioner researcher evaluation of mental healthpractice are discussed. 相似文献