Gender, Growth and Trade: The Miracle Economies of the Postwar Years. By David Kucera. London: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xi, 217.

2003 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 311-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Response Time ◽  
Market Mechanism ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Women's Employment ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Postwar Germany ◽  
The Cost ◽  
High Road ◽  
Low Wages

The central theme of this book is the interplay of women's employment and the macro-economy in postwar Germany and Japan. David Kucera introduces the distinction between two possible types of flexibility in the labor market. The first occurs in the absence of interference with the market mechanism from laws or institutions. This flexibility may reduce unemployment and increase the response time to shocks, at the cost of low wages and insufficient training. In the second type of flexibility, a buffer group provides this flexibility, while core workers are protected from the vagaries of the market and receive training and high wages. Kucera argues that by using women as a buffer group to protect men, Japan is able at a macro-level to reap the benefits of both the “low-road” and “high-road” approaches. Bolstering this argument, and showing that Germany pursues instead the simpler “high-road” strategy, is the most important aim of the book.

The impact of labor freedom on geographic cost of living differentials

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-395
Author(s):  
Richard Cebula ◽  
James E. Payne ◽  
Donnie Horner ◽  
Robert Boylan
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
State Level ◽  
The State ◽  
Annual Data ◽  
Significant Finding ◽  
Cost Of Living ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of labor market freedom on state-level cost of living differentials in the USA using cross-sectional data for 2016 after allowing for the impacts of economic and quality of life factors. Design/methodology/approach The study uses two-stage least squares estimation controlling for factors contributing to cost of living differences across states. Findings The results reveal that an increase in labor market freedom reduces the overall cost of living. Research limitations/implications The study can be extended using panel data and alternative measures of labor market freedom. Practical implications In general, the finding that less intrusive government and greater labor freedom are associated with a reduced cost of living should not be surprising. This is because less government intrusion and greater labor freedom both inherently allow markets to be more efficient in the rationalization of and interplay with forces of supply and demand. Social implications The findings of this and future related studies could prove very useful to policy makers and entrepreneurs, as well as small business owners and public corporations of all sizes – particularly those considering either location in, relocation to, or expansion into other markets within the USA. Furthermore, the potential benefits of the National Right-to-Work Law currently under consideration in Congress could add cost of living reductions to the debate. Originality/value The authors extend the literature on cost of living differentials by investigating whether higher amounts of state-level labor market freedom act to reduce the states’ cost of living using the most recent annual data available (2016). That labor freedom has a systemic efficiency impact on the state-level cost of living is a significant finding. In our opinion, it is likely that labor market freedom is increasing the efficiency of labor market transactions in the production and distribution of goods and services, and acts to reduce the cost of living in states. In addition, unlike previous related studies, the authors investigate the impact of not only overall labor market freedom on the state-level cost of living, but also how the three sub-indices of labor market freedom, as identified and measured by Stansel et al. (2014, 2015), impact the cost of living state by state.

N and P on-line meters: requirements, maintenance and stability

1996 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik A. Thomsen ◽  
Kenneth Kisbye
Keyword(s):  
Sample Preparation ◽  
Response Time ◽  
Ammonium Nitrate ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
List Price ◽  
User Friendliness ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Preparation Design

State-of-the-art on-line meters for determination of ammonium, nitrate and phosphate are presented. The on-line meters employ different measuring principles and are available in many different designs differing with respect to size, calibration and cleaning principle, user-friendliness, response time, reagent and sample consumption. A study of Danish experiences on several plants has been conducted. The list price of an on-line meter is between USD 8000 and USD 35,000. To this should be added the cost of sample preparation, design, installation and running-in. The yearly operating for one meter are in the range of USD 200-2500 and the manpower consumption is in the range of 1-5 hours/month. The accuracy obtained is only slightly smaller than the accuracy on collaborative laboratory analyses, which is sufficient for most control purposes.

Low Wages and Lousy Jobs

2020 ◽  
pp. 106-129
Author(s):  
Daniel Halliday ◽  
John Thrasher
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Executive Pay ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Unskilled Workers ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Low Wages

This chapter addresses some principal questions about labor market justice. Some of these are old concerns about the persistence of poverty due to the forces that keep wages low among unskilled workers. This leads to worries about exploitation. It will also examine the concern, most often associated with Marx, that much paid work is of a character that is detrimental to human flourishing, or serves to “alienate” workers from their labor. The focus then moves to more recent trends, such as the rise in executive pay and other aspects of “labor market polarization.” These motivate some discussion of whether it’s unjust for a few people to earn so much more than everyone else.

Makespan of routing and security in Cross Centric Intrusion Detection System (CCIDS) over black hole attacks and rushing attacks in MANET

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 162-176
Author(s):  
Rajendran N. ◽  
Jawahar P.K. ◽  
Priyadarshini R.
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Intrusion Detection ◽  
Response Time ◽  
Intrusion Detection System ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Cost

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to apply security policies over the mobile ad hoc networks. A mobile ad hoc network refers to infrastructure-less, persistently self-designing systems; likewise, there is a noteworthy innovation that supplies virtual equipment and programming assets according to the requirement of mobile ad hoc network. Design/methodology/approach It faces different execution and effectiveness-based difficulties. The major challenge is the compromise of performance because of unavailable resources with respect to the MANET. In order to increase the MANET environment’s performance, various techniques are employed for routing and security purpose. An efficient security module requires a quality-of-service (QoS)-based security policy. It performs the task of routing and of the mobile nodes, and it also reduces the routing cost by finding the most trusted node. Findings The experimental results specify that QoS-based security policy effectively minimizes the cost, response time as well as the mobile makespan (routing cost and response time) of an application with respect to other existing approaches. Research limitations/implications In this paper, the authors proposed an enhancement of Cross Centric Intrusion Detection System named as PIHNSPRA Routing Algorithm (PIHNSPRA). Practical implications It maps the security with the secure IDS communication and distributes the packets among different destinations, based on priority. This calculation is proposed for the purpose of routing and security by considering greatest throughput with least routing cost and reaction time. Social implications When the concept is applied to practical applications. Quality of Service introduced in the proposed research reduces the cost of routing and improves the throughput. Originality/value The proposed calculation is tested by NS2 simulator and the outcomes showed that the execution of the calculation is superior to other conventional algorithms.

Labor Activation, Social Protection and Poverty Reduction: The Case of Russia

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 328-353
Author(s):  
Esuna Dugarova
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
Core Element ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Demographic Shifts ◽  
Working Poverty ◽  
The Cost

Social protection is an important strategy to protect people from livelihood risks, develop human capital and promote economic growth. Decent work is a core element of social protection and a critical condition for eradicating poverty. Despite high labor force participation and low unemployment, Russia’s labor market shows several negative trends, including working poverty and growing informality. Both are exacerbated by gender disparities and unfavorable demographic shifts. Over the past decade the Russian government has implemented active labor market interventions, and enhanced targeted social protection aimed at promoting employment and reducing poverty. Based on the analysis of key data and programs, the article finds that the country achieved stability in the labor market, but at the cost of deteriorating living standards caused by low levels of productivity and wages.

An Economic Evaluation of the Service Contract Act

ILR Review ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Goldfarb ◽  
John S. Heywood
Keyword(s):  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Service Contract ◽  
Federal Research ◽  
Federal Contracts ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Low Wages ◽  
The Way

The Service Contract Act of 1965 is one of three major laws requiring that “prevailing wages” be paid by private employers with federal contracts. This paper develops a preliminary cost-benefit framework for evaluating that Act. On the benefit side, the authors identify and analyze eight possible rationales for the Act, such as the desire to prevent low wages and to encourage collective bargaining. The authors find most of the rationales to be intellectually unsatisfactory, especially in light of the way in which the Act has actually been administered. On the cost side, the authors develop a methodology for estimating the wage costs of the Act, using as an example the cost of extending coverage to federal research and development contracts. The authors also describe changes in the Act's administrative rules proposed recently by the Carter and Reagan administrations.

OLTP PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT USING FILE-SYSTEMS LAYER COMPRESSION

2017 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suharjito Suharjito ◽  
Adrianus B. Kurnadi
Keyword(s):  
Response Time ◽  
Performance Improvement ◽  
Compression Ratio ◽  
File Systems ◽  
Transaction Processing ◽  
Maximum Response ◽  
Improve Performance ◽  
Oracle Database ◽  
Maximum Response Time ◽  
The Cost

Database for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) application is used by almost every corporations that has adopted computerisation to support their operational day to day business. Compression in the storage or file-systems layer has not been widely adopted for OLTP database because of the concern that it might decrease database performance. OLTP compression in the database layer is available commercially but it has a significant licence cost that reduces the cost saving of compression. In this research, transparent file-system compression with LZ4, LZJB and ZLE algorithm have been tested to improve performance of OLTP application. Using Swing-bench as the benchmark tool and Oracle database 12c, The result indicated that on OLTP workload, LZJB was the most optimal compression algorithm with performance improvement up to 49% and consistent reduction of maximum response time and CPU utilisation overhead, while LZ4 was the compression with the highest compression ratio and ZLE was the compression with the lowest CPU utilisation overhead. In terms of compression ratio, LZ4 can deliver the highest compression ratio which is 5.32, followed by LZJB, 4.92; and ZLE, 1.76. Furthermore, it is found that there is indeed a risk of reduced performance and/or an increase of maximum response time.

scholarly journals Screening, Competition, and Job Design: Economic Origins of Good Jobs

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 834-864 ◽  
Author(s):  
Björn Bartling ◽  
Ernst Fehr ◽  
Klaus M Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Job Design ◽  
Work Systems ◽  
High Performance Work Systems ◽  
Work Attitude ◽  
Rent Sharing ◽  
Low Wages

High-performance work systems give workers more discretion, thereby increasing effort productivity but also shirking opportunities. We show experimentally that screening for work attitude and labor market competition are causal determinants of the viability of high-performance work systems, and we identify the complementarities between discretion, rent-sharing, and screening that render them profitable. Two fundamentally distinct job designs emerge endogenously in our experiments: “bad” jobs with low discretion, low wages, and little rent-sharing, and “good” jobs with high discretion, high wages, and substantial rent-sharing. Good jobs are profitable only if employees can be screened, and labor market competition fosters their dissemination. (JEL D12, D82, J24, J31, J41, M12, M54)

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