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Download or read book People People: Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bas ter Weel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789053214046
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)
Download or read book People to people : social capital and the labor-market outcomes of underrepresented groups written by Bas ter Weel and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite indications that interpersonal interactions are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that interpersonal interactions are important determinants of labor-market outcomes, including occupations and wages. We show that technological and organizational changes have increased the importance of interpersonal interactions in the workplace. We particularly focus on how the increased importance of interpersonal interactions has affected the labor-market outcomes of underrepresented groups. We show that the acceleration in the rate of increase in the importance of interpersonal interactions between the late 1970s and early 1990s can help explain why women's wages increased more rapidly, while the wages of blacks grew more slowly over these years relative to earlier years.
Author : Steve McDonald
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781905401
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Networks, Work, and Inequality written by Steve McDonald and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume illuminates the processes by which social networks in work organizations can effectively generate, sustain and ameliorate social inequalities across individuals, firms and occupational fields. It offers valuable insights that inform researchers and policy makers regarding issues of workplace discrimination, diversity and innovation.
Author : Vanessa M. White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book What is the Role and Impact of Social Capital as it Relates to the Labor Market Outcomes for African American Males Living in the City of Milwaukee? written by Vanessa M. White and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, the rate of unemployment for African American males has been double that of their white counterparts and the jobless rate for African American males living in Milwaukee has been called a “crisis” (Levine, 2007, 2008, 2010). Employment training and placement programs are part of the strategies to reduce joblessness among this group, with millions of dollars in public and private funding spent annually to support these economic development efforts. Programs include both technical and soft skills training, with the purpose of the latter to build skills proven to support retention; however, the intentional development of social capital is not a part of the curriculums. Multi-level research about the value, function, and applications of social capital is ongoing as individuals and organizations look for ways to use networks to accomplish a wide variety of goals, including employment attainment. The purpose of the study was to determine the use, effectiveness, and value of three specific social capital types- bonding, bridging, and linking- as they relate to job search and employment outcomes for African American males living in Milwaukee. A mixed-methods design was used to answer the research question: What is the role and impact of social capital as it relates to employment outcomes for African American males living in the City of Milwaukee? The sample consisted of two groups: (1) working aged African American males and (2) professionals who make hiring decisions as part of their hiring process. Study participants were asked about (a) network membership and participation, (b) use of networks in their job search, and (c) value and acceptability of specific social capital types as employment references. Frequency data provided the foundation for the quantitative analysis. The data confirmed Gowan’s (2010) assertion that the mere possession of social capital did not equate to an effective job search out come. More importantly, the data showed that employers did not accept references from bonding sources, instead requiring references from bridging and linking sources. The term social capital exemplifies the phrase it’s not what you know it’s who you know. Strategies to combat unemployment should include social capital instruction because of its ability to create pathways for the flow of information and exchange.
Author : Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781902194
Total Pages : 861 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (819 download)
Download or read book 35th Anniversary Retrospective written by Konstantinos Tatsiramos and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 861 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To commemorate Research in Labor Economics s 35th anniversary, this retrospective edition contains 20 of the most influential Research in Labor Economics articles along with new introductory prefatory updates written by the original authors.
Author : Elias Salomon Lopez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Social Capital and the Pre-labor Market Environment as Mediators of Educational Choices and Outcomes for Latino and Anglo Students written by Elias Salomon Lopez and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349588024
Total Pages : 7493 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (495 download)
Download or read book The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics written by and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 7493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition is now available as a dynamic online resource. Consisting of over 1,900 articles written by leading figures in the field including Nobel prize winners, this is the definitive scholarly reference work for a new generation of economists. Regularly updated! This product is a subscription based product.
Author : David L. Weimer
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1589015991
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Investing in the Disadvantaged written by David L. Weimer and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With budgets squeezed at every level of government, cost-benefit analysis (CBA) holds outstanding potential for assessing the efficiency of many programs. In this first book to address the application of CBA to social policy, experts examine ten of the most important policy domains: early childhood development, elementary and secondary schools, health care for the disadvantaged, mental illness, substance abuse and addiction, juvenile crime, prisoner reentry programs, housing assistance, work-incentive programs for the unemployed and employers, and welfare-to-work interventions. Each contributor discusses the applicability of CBA to actual programs, describing both proven and promising examples. The editors provide an introduction to cost-benefit analysis, assess the programs described, and propose a research agenda for promoting its more widespread application in social policy. Investing in the Disadvantaged considers how to face America’s most urgent social needs with shrinking resources, showing how CBA can be used to inform policy choices that produce social value.
Author : William N. Evans
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299237532
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Noncognitive Skills and Their Development written by William N. Evans and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These articles include recent research on ways to incorporate the noncognitive side of ability in economic theory and to empirically assess and explain its role in labor market and behavioral outcomes. Contributions investigate the extent to which assignment of workers is determined by traditional cognitive variables and by personality traits. Also presented in this collection is research on the role of noncognitive skills in explaining the labor market position of underrepresented groups and research that integrates the economic and psychological theory and evidence on noncognitive skills.
Author : Don Peck
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307886522
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Pinched written by Don Peck and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an article Peck wrote for "The Atlantic, Pinched" uses a mix of history, news, reported vignettes, data, new academic findings, and cultural commentary to paint a devastating portrait of what American life will look like in the long aftermath of the Great Recession.
Author : Maurizio Bussolo
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464818363
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Hidden Potential written by Maurizio Bussolo and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informality remains widespread in South Asia despite decades of economic growth. The low earnings and high vulnerability in the informal sector make this a major development issue for the region. Yet, there is no consensus on its causes and consequences, with the debate polarized between a view that informality is a problem of regulatory evasion and should be eradicated, and another that equates informality with economic exclusion. Recent advances in analyzing informality as the outcome of firm dynamics in distorted economic environments can help reconcile them. Building on these advances, the approach adopted in this volume clarifies that there are different types of informality, with different drivers and consequences. The report has four main messages that underscore the need for a multipronged strategy. First, informality in South Asia is dominated by firms that happen to be outside the purview of regulations because they are small, as opposed to those that remain small to escape regulations. Second, reforms of business regulations tend to have small direct effects on the informal sector, although they could have sizable indirect impacts on it if they succeed in removing major inefficiencies in the broader economy. Third, e-commerce platforms offer new opportunities to informal firms and workers, but many of them lack complementary skills or credit to benefit from such technologies. Fourth, a combination of contributory and non-contributory programs recognizing the heterogenous saving capacities of informal workers may be necessary to achieve more universal coverage of social insurance.
Author : Adriana Lleras-Muney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Party On written by Adriana Lleras-Muney and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: A person's schooling years are a formative time for cognitive development, and also a period of intense social interaction and friendship formation. In this paper, we estimate the production of social capital during adolescence and its effect on wages. We develop a model where homophily and coordination play crucial roles in the decision to socialize and study, which in turn determine educational attainment, network formation, and labor market outcomes. We document that individuals make investments to accumulate friends and other forms of social capital. Sometimes these investments compete with schooling investments (particularly when they involve alcohol consumption), but not always. These social investments have payoffs in the labor market and cannot be thought of as pure leisure. We estimate that receiving five to six friend nominations in adolescence has an impact on wage earnings of approximately 10%, comparable to a broad set of estimates of the return to an additional year of schooling. Therefore, policies that alter the schooling environment should be evaluated by their impacts on social capital as well as their impact on education
Author : Solomon W. Polachek
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178560810X
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (856 download)
Download or read book Inequality written by Solomon W. Polachek and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research in Labor Economics volume 43 contains new and innovative research on the causes and consequences of inequality.
Author : Hanna Rosin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101596929
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The End of Men written by Hanna Rosin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for our times, as women are pulling together to demand their rights— A landmark portrait of women, men, and power in a transformed world. “Anchored by data and aromatized by anecdotes, [Rosin] concludes that women are gaining the upper hand." –The Washington Post Men have been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. But Hanna Rosin was the first to notice that this long-held truth is, astonishingly, no longer true. Today, by almost every measure, women are no longer gaining on men: They have pulled decisively ahead. And “the end of men”—the title of Rosin’s Atlantic cover story on the subject—has entered the lexicon as dramatically as Betty Friedan’s “feminine mystique,” Simone de Beauvoir’s “second sex,” Susan Faludi’s “backlash,” and Naomi Wolf’s “beauty myth” once did. In this landmark book, Rosin reveals how our current state of affairs is radically shifting the power dynamics between men and women at every level of society, with profound implications for marriage, sex, children, work, and more. With wide-ranging curiosity and insight unhampered by assumptions or ideology, Rosin shows how the radically different ways men and women today earn, learn, spend, couple up—even kill—has turned the big picture upside down. And in The End of Men she helps us see how, regardless of gender, we can adapt to the new reality and channel it for a better future.
Author : Sharron D. Hunter-Rainey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (573 download)
Download or read book The Roles of Organizational Demography and Social Capital in Differential Labor Market Outcomes Realized by Workers who are Demographically Different written by Sharron D. Hunter-Rainey and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309256496
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Education for Life and Work written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have long recognized that investments in public education contribute to the common good, enhancing national prosperity and supporting stable families, neighborhoods, and communities. Education is even more critical today, in the face of economic, environmental, and social challenges. Today's children can meet future challenges if their schooling and informal learning activities prepare them for adult roles as citizens, employees, managers, parents, volunteers, and entrepreneurs. To achieve their full potential as adults, young people need to develop a range of skills and knowledge that facilitate mastery and application of English, mathematics, and other school subjects. At the same time, business and political leaders are increasingly asking schools to develop skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and self-management - often referred to as "21st century skills." Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century describes this important set of key skills that increase deeper learning, college and career readiness, student-centered learning, and higher order thinking. These labels include both cognitive and non-cognitive skills- such as critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, effective communication, motivation, persistence, and learning to learn. 21st century skills also include creativity, innovation, and ethics that are important to later success and may be developed in formal or informal learning environments. This report also describes how these skills relate to each other and to more traditional academic skills and content in the key disciplines of reading, mathematics, and science. Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century summarizes the findings of the research that investigates the importance of such skills to success in education, work, and other areas of adult responsibility and that demonstrates the importance of developing these skills in K-16 education. In this report, features related to learning these skills are identified, which include teacher professional development, curriculum, assessment, after-school and out-of-school programs, and informal learning centers such as exhibits and museums.
Author : Stefanos Nachmias
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030116441
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Inequality and Organizational Practice written by Stefanos Nachmias and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together international authors, this edited collection addresses the need for greater inclusivity within organizational policy and practice, in order to tackle both visible and invisible inequalities amongst employees. Evidence suggests that more positive employment relationships can be brought about by tackling diversity issues, yet there are still ‘grey areas’ existing in the current legislative framework. Volume I explores the way that these hidden inequalities can be used to identify an individual as ‘other,’ and how this ultimately affects their wellbeing and welfare at work. Analysing social justice and stigma, as well as nuanced issues within the workplace, this book is a thought-provoking read for scholars of HRM, practitioners and policy-makers.
