The large influx of immigrants in recent decades has led to an equally long, still unresolved debate over its effect on the economic well-being of native-born workers. Specifically, does immigration impose costs on U.S. workers by diminishing their labor market prospects? Economic theory posits that an increase in the supply of labor, such as through immigration, will reduce the wages and emplo...

This research is motivated by large scale problems in urban transportation and labor mobility where there is congestion for resources and uncertainty in movement. In such domains, even though the individual agents do not have an identity of their own and do not explicitly interact with other agents, they effect other agents. While there has been much research in handling such implicit effects, ...

This article examines the role that women’s cultures and communities have played in political protest and social change. We argue that women’s cultures, which form around the reproductive roles, labor, and emotional expectations placed on women, have been used to express femininity and as cultural resources or ‘‘toolkits’’ to transform male-dominated spheres of society. We begin by defining wom...

We compute the forecastable changes in output, consumption, and hours implied by a VAR that includes the growth rate of private value added, the share of output that is consumed, and the detrended level of private hours. We show that the size of the forecastable changes in output greatly exceeds that predicted by a standard stochastic growth model, of the kind studied by real business cycle the...

In this paper, the design of upper limps exoskeleton on a textile basis is considered as means increasing efficiency manual labor at industrial facilities and enterprises fuel energy complex. The material presents an analysis existing solutions, features implementation assistance in exoskeleton, mathematical apparatus that describes movements results numerical simulation. Conclusions are drawn ...

in this article, the writer discusses the concept of modernity and its relationship with social movements, as is reflected in classical works on modernity as well as in the contemporary modern political and sociological thoughts. the purpose is not to present a quantitative analysis of the development of the concept of modernity, but to explain the relationship between modernity and political a...

Social movements have a determining role in the political landscape. They are agents of change that question and bring to light power structures system does not express by itself. However, as operates network, social exempt from harboring relations domination power. In this context, based on feminist methodology use gender categories device power, sexual division labor, access public space, dec...

Abstract This text approaches the articulation between solidarity economy practices and production of citizenship autonomy among individuals in psychosocial suffering, through an artistic/cultural production. The confluence public mental healthcare associated work as alternative to labor insertion for people suffering from disease is, although still challenging, very important Brazil. We analyz...

Abstract Over time, the concept of social movement has evolved as society changed, but always implied collective action in public space. The form contestation according to conjuncture each historical period. In 18th century, transition from Old Regime Liberalism provoked movements considered by some authors “primitive” or “premodern”, they were spontaneous, sporadic and depoliticized. Industria...