This paper compares two instances where the political use of law, specifically labor legislation, was used to effect broader social change during the early 1980s. The two cases focused on are the Thatcher administration in Great Britain and the Mitter and government in France. These divergent cases are instructive as much for their similarities as for their differences. Though the two governmen...

Using a finance-constrained model, as in Barinci and Cheron (2001), this paper examines the role of procyclical and countercyclical tax rates on labor and capital income in aggregate fluctuations driven by the beliefs of agents. The analysis shows that the cyclicality of labor income tax rate has the monotonically negative impact on the possibility of indeterminacy, while the non-monotonic rela...

The subject of the debate was "Resolved, That the Labor Relations Board should have power to enforce arbitration in All Industrial Labor Disputes.' The Rice team argued the aff i rmative and the Stanford team the negat ive of the question Zumwalt a n d Wisenberg. b o t h freshmen , teamed well for iRice in the debate., This pair last year was rumvesvup for the state in*.erscholastic debating ch...

Since the nineteen seventies, high- and low-income countries have undergone a pattern of transnational economic and cultural integration known as globalization. The weight of the available evidence suggests that the effects of globalization on labor markets have increased economic inequality and various forms of economic insecurity that negatively affect workers' health. Research on the relatio...

This article studies the effect of recent labor market reforms on industrial relations in new democracies (1994–2003). The literature on labor politics posits two channels through which labor market deregulation may relate to industrial conflict. Wage deregulation may lower wage costs, increasing industrial conflict. Employment deregulation, however, can reduce the ability of workers to act col...

This study is an analysis of the simultaneous choices of education and migration for young adults in a rural Thai setting. The primary foucs is upon the role of both gender and sibling oder as they characterize the most important elements of intra-household relations in this context. The study develops a theoretical perspective about exchange relations and the risk environment surrounding decis...