The Journal of Socio-Economics articles from March 1996

The Journal of Socio-Economics archives from March 1996

Louis Kelso's binary economy.
March 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION The great promise of the industrial revolution was abundance and leisure but, despite a growing capacity to produce, poverty remains a major problem even in our most successful economies. This persistent problem of poverty amid...

A supply-sider's (sympathetic) view of binary economics.(Special Section on Binary Economics)
March 22, 1996... The history of economic thought is replete with challenges to the neoclassical paradigm. A comparatively recent manifestation of this continuing process is binary economics. Largely the work of Louis and Patricia Hetter Kelso it has received...

Political use of income: some experimental evidence from Capitol Hill.
March 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION Researchers have recently been able to provide more powerful tests of the political-cost hypothesis by using proxies for political costs which are more closely linked to the political arena (Cahan, 1992; Sutton, 1988; Wong, 1988)....

Employee absence incentives in the welfare state: toward explaining cross-national differences.
March 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION A small but substantive body of economic literature has sought to clarify the roles of market forces and economic incentives as determinants of employee absence. First, since the decision to be absent is a decision to withhold...

Gender discrimination in the public and private sectors: a sample selectivity approach.
March 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION The impact of sample selectivity bias on analyses of intergroup earnings differentials is a well-known problem (Heckman, 1979). Since earnings information is only observed for those individuals who enter the labor force,...

Reducing unemployment through community efforts to improve the labor-management relations climate.
March 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION Few would disagree with the 1981 observation by McKersie and McKersie that "the best way to deal with potential job loss is to prevent it" (McKersie & McKersie, 1981, p. 4). Many jobs are lost as plants close. Although the...

On Economic Institutions.
March 22, 1996... This collection of articles amounts to a status report on work being done by members of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. Most of the 11 articles in the book were selected from papers presented at the 1993 meeting of...