Does the open shop harm union collective action?

Does strengthening Collective Action Clauses ( CACs ) help ?

In a model with both issues of sovereign debtor moral hazard and creditor coordination under incomplete information, we show that the resulting con‡ict between ex ante and interim e¢ ciency limits the welfare impact of strengthening CACs. Conditional on default, we show that an interim e¢ cient CAC threshold exists and improving creditor coordination results in welfare gains. However, when ex a...

Does Inflation Harm Economic Growth In Iran?

Does Banning A¢rmative Action Harm College Student Quality?

Banning a¢rmative action from college admissions decisions cannot prevent an admissions o¢ce that cares about diversity from achieving it through channels other than the explicit consideration of race. We construct a model of college admissions where candidates from two groups with di¤erent average quali...cations compete for a ...xed number of seats. When an admissions o¢ce that cares both abo...

Cat swarm optimization for solving the open shop scheduling problem

This paper aims to prove the efficiency of an adapted computationally intelligence-based behavior of cats called the cat swarm optimization algorithm, that solves the open shop scheduling problem, classified as NP-hard which its importance appears in several industrial and manufacturing applications. The cat swarm optimization algorithm was applied to solve some benchmark instances from the lit...

Collective strength, collective action.

During the past decade, infection prevention programs have been presented with an unending series of challenges and expectations. The challenges, more often than not, have resulted in additional responsibilities, functions, and workload for infection control professionals (ICPs) and healthcare epidemiologists. These additional responsibilities have not been accompanied by proportional increases...