The Global Restructuring of Labor Movements

Aging and the restructuring of precued movements.

A precue paradigm was used to examine the time it takes to restructure a planned motor response. Two groups of subjects, a young group and an elderly group, performed an aiming task in which 75% of the trials involved no change of movement parameters. On remaining trials, subjects had to change one or more of the movement parameters. Elderly subjects had slower reaction times (RTs), movement ti...

Explaining Movements in the Labor Share1

In this paper we study the evolution of the labor share in the OECD since 1970. We show it is essentially related to the capital-output ratio; that this relationship is shifted by factors like the price of imported materials or the skill mix; and that discrepancies between the marginal product of labor and the real wage (due to, e.g., product market power, union bargaining, and labor adjustment...

Cyclical Movements along the Labor Supply Function

the relationship between field-related cognitive styles and global reading comprehension of hypertext

this study investigates the relationship between field-related cognitive styles and global reading comprehension of hypertext. technically, field dependency is prevailing dominance of field on perception of parts, while global comprehension is skim-like reading to grasp the general content. in this research project, 60 senior and junior students of arak university majoring in english literature...

The global food regime : crisis and restructuring

It is well known that capitalist development depends on free wage labor and previously accumulated capital, as Marx (1967/1867, p. 166) claimed “the owner of money must meet in the market with the free labourer”. This claim, of course, implicitly assumes sufficient supply relatively affordable food for the proletariat in the capitalist sector, as both industrialization and urbanization greatly ...