A Labor Theory of Legal Parenthood

Legal issues related to parenthood after cancer.

Cancer and procreation raise a host of novel legal issues involving the rights of those trying to create families after cancer treatment and any resulting children, as well as the responsibilities of those who assist them. Recent court decisions, although neither consistent nor plentiful, highlight the emerging legal issues for patients, providers, and offspring. This article explores a number ...

Dual Labor Markets: A Theory of Labor Market Segmentation

Auctioning Oo Labor Contracts: Legal Restrictions Reconsidered

The paper considers two di erent mechanisms of allocating jobs to workers under moral hazard and adverse selection. First, the optimal selection mechanism is derived. It is examined whether second degree wage discrimination (e.g. through progressive piece rates) increases the total surplus which may outweigh arguments of equal pay (piece rates should not di er between workers just because their...

The Labor Market Value to Legal Status

We present new estimates of the effect that obtaining legal immigration status has upon the wages of undocumented workers. In estimating the effect of legalization upon wages, we face a number of econometric challenges. First, through the use of rich panel data, we are able to control for the fact that individuals with higher time invariant unobserved ability, which will raise earnings regardle...

applying transitivity theory to gender analysis of efl textbook: : a comparative study.

efl/esl textbooks have been regarded as essential language teaching materials with which the learners spend about 70 up to 90 percent of their class time. the important role they play and their vast use make them not only influential in learning the language but also in shaping values and attitudes. put it another way, textbooks socialize learners using their contents (i.e. texts, illustrations...