The Journal of Socio-Economics articles from January 2001

The Journal of Socio-Economics archives from January 2001

Symposium on the reorientation of economics: what is economics?
January 1, 2001... Shoshanna Grossbard-Shechtman [*] The Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics held its biannual meetings in San Diego in June 1999. The major theme of the conference was the reorientation of economics. Recent decades have...

Comparing the methodologies used by statisticians and economists for research and modeling [#].
January 1, 2001... Clive W.J. Granger [*] 1. Introduction I have always thought that a major reason for visiting another country is to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of the country in which one usually lives by observing how other people...

Imperialism and competition in anthropology, sociology, political science and economics: a perspective from development economics [#].
January 1, 2001... Vernon W. Ruttan [*][1] 1. Introduction My interest in the subject of this article emerged out of an interest in the sources of technical change. In research initiated in the early 1970s Yujiro Hayami and I extended the theory of...

Life cycle welfare: evidence and conjecture.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Richard A. Easterlin [*] Abstract At a point in time subjective well-being is positively related to income; over the life course subjective well-being is constant despite substantial growth in income. This paradox is explained by new...

Understanding high-performance work systems: the joint contribution of economics and human resource management [#].
January 1, 2001... John F. Tomer [*] 1. Introduction High-performance work systems (HPWS) are organizations that utilize a fundamentally different approach to managing than the traditional hierarchical approach associated with mass production/scientific...

Unemployment, marriage, and cohabitation in France.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Olivia Ekert-Jaffe [a][*] Anne Solaz [a,b] Abstract This paper examines the impact of insecure professional status on union formation using the 1994 French Family and Fertility Survey. We show that, for both women and men, the...