Establishment size and employment stability in logging and sawmilling: a comparative analysis

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G Lee ◽  
Penelope Jennings Eckert
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Employment Stability ◽  
Establishment Size ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Competitive Nature

Wood products employment stability (defined as year-to-year variation) was examined as a function of establishment size (grouped by number of employees). Small- and medium-sized establishments were consistently found to be more stable than large establishments. Comparison of Washington, Oregon, the United States, and Japan showed that the relationship between establishment size and employment stability was maintained regardless of long-term growth or decline in wood-products employment. Moreover, the smaller wood-products establishments in the United States were found to be more stable than the smaller establishments in other manufacturing industries. Structural stability in employment has been associated with the highly competitive nature of smaller wood-products establishments. Employment stability can best be promoted by policies that support the continued viability of smaller establishments.

Charity-State Relations: A Conceptual Analysis

1986 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Deans ◽  
Alan Ware
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
State Relations ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTThis article examines the issues and the problems confronted by those conducting comparative research of charity-state relations in England, Canada and the United States. It also provides an explanation of why the interaction between charities and the state is important for political science: in part this is because in all three countries charities have become increasingly dependent on government for their income. In section I, the article examines the relationship between the concepts of a third sector, voluntary sector, non-profit sector and charity and concludes that the last might be the most appropriate to employ in comparative analysis. In section 2, the authors argue that in both England and Canada the state is formally responsible for the formation of certain kinds of charities; they also argue that in the United States a stricter separation between state and charity exists but that, in practice, the boundaries between charities and the state and the market are not clear ones.

scholarly journals Collective Action and the Origins of the American Labor Movement

2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 744-784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethan Schmick
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Union Formation ◽  
Establishment Size ◽  
Large Employer ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
American Labor Movement ◽  
American Labor

This article examines the relationship between collective action and the size of worker and employer groups in the United States. It proposes and tests a theory of union formation and strikes. Using a new county-by-industry level dataset containing the location of unions, the location of strikes, average establishment size, and the number of establishments around the turn of the twentieth century, I find that unions were more likely to form and strikes were more likely to occur in counties with intermediate-sized worker groups and large employer groups.

Saying “I Don’t” to Matrimony: An Investigation of Why Long-Term Heterosexual Cohabitors Choose Not to Marry

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (12) ◽  
pp. 1651-1674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Hatch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Break Up ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Legal Marriage

Research indicates the continuance of a rising trend in cohabitation among heterosexual couples. Although most cohabitors eventually marry or break up, there is a subset of cohabitors that are consciously committed to remaining unmarried. Based on interviews with 45 committed unmarried heterosexual couples residing in the United States, this study investigates the reasons why some choose to abstain from legal marriage altogether. Participants indicate a variety of reasons for forgoing legal marriage, including political views, economic practicalities, divorce concerns, and a lack of rationales or incentives to marry. The reasons offered fit into two larger categories: unease about the meanings associated with marriage and concerns about what marriage does to the relationship. As a subset of cohabitors often overlooked in research, it is important to understand what motivates some into saying “I Don’t” to legal marriage.

scholarly journals Interconnection of polycultural and inclusive education on the example of the USA

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
I.S. Bessarabova ◽  
◽  
E.S. Kurysheva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
The Relationship

The relevance of the research is due to the multicultural nature of the modern world, where all members of any society must have equal rights for high quality educational services, despite individual characteristics that may manifest themselves in race and gender, social status, and alternative development. Multicultural education, being a priority in the US educational policy, has stimulated the development of inclusive education in the country, thereby providing access to education for all citizens with disabilities. Thus, a comprehensive school acquired the status of the main institution for the socialization of students, regardless of their educational capabilities and needs. Consequently, the problem of the research is to identify the relationship between multicultural and inclusive education in the United States. The purpose of the research was to characterize the common features of multicultural and inclusive education on the example of the United States. In the course of the research, the following methods were used: analysis of domestic and foreign literature on the research problem, as well as methods of comparative analysis, generalization and systematization. The research results are the main features of multicultural and inclusive education in the United States have been analyzed, the main goals of multicultural and inclusive education in the United States have been correlated; the principles of multicultural education, which form the basis of inclusive education in the United States have been considered; the relationship of inclusive and multicultural education on the example of the United States has been substantiated. Key conclusions: the presented principles of multicultural education (the principle of variability, differentiation, exclusion of any kind of discrimination, humanistic orientation of the educational process) forms the basis for the organization of inclusive education in the United States. A comparative analysis of the goals of multicultural and inclusive education in the United States has shown their general focus on providing affordable and quality education to all members of society, regardless of identity.

The Environment and International Trade

2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Vogel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Trade Policy ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the increasingly important and often contentious relationship between international trade and environmental regulation in the United States. It begins by explaining why these two policy areas have recently become more interdependent and then explores some of the specific controversies surrounding the contemporary linkages between trade policy and environmental regulation. The article concludes by analyzing the long-term political and economic impact of the relationship between trade and environmental policy.

scholarly journals Preface

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. v-ix ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexei Elfimov ◽  
Ullrich Kockel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
The Relationship

As the new century unfolds, it becomes increasingly clear that contexts in which anthropology is practised as an established discipline, scholarly enterprise, applied endeavour, profession and intellectual pursuit keep changing, altering and transforming. The general aim in putting together this collection of essays was to test the state and condition of the relationship between anthropology and society in a number of countries where anthropological discourses and ethnographic activity have had a tangible presence in academia and beyond. Adopting a comparative approach – anthropology’s long-term companion – that we hoped would once again allow us to highlight where things have developed differently and where they seemed the same (or indeed were only equally illusorily), we asked leading practitioners from Austria, Brazil, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Russia, South Africa and the United States to ponder the same, rather broadly posed, set of questions.

SPATIAL DYNAMICS OF HEALTHCARE DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (200) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
V.N. Minat ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Spatial Dynamics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Relationship

The features of the spatial dynamics of the development of American healthcare in the long term are revealed. Based on the use of statistical and economic analysis undertaken within the framework of a combination of historical, geospatial and typological approaches, the dynamics of the average annual indicators of the development of US healthcare for 1951-2020 in the context of individual states is studied. Grouping of indicators allowed to identify the relationship between the growth of efficiency, quality, safety, accessibility and effectiveness of US healthcare at the regional level. On the basis of this dependence, a typology of states is carried out, which generally corresponds to the central-peripheral concept of the dynamics of socio-economic development of the United States.

scholarly journals Syndicalism and Strikes, Leadership and Influence: Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, and the United States

2013 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 37-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Darlington
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
The World ◽  
International Comparative ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe explosion of industrial and political militancy that swept the world during the early years of the twentieth century gave the revolutionary syndicalist movement a prominence and notoriety it would not otherwise have possessed, while at the same time providing a context for syndicalist ideas to be broadcast and for syndicalists to assume the leadership of major strikes in a number of countries. This article sheds new light on the complex nature of the relationship between syndicalism and strikes by means of an international comparative analysis of the revolutionary syndicalist movements in France, Spain, Italy, Britain, Ireland and United States. It presents evidence to suggest ideological/organizational initiative and leadership was of immense importance in understanding how syndicalist movements could be simultaneously a contributory cause, a symptom, and a beneficiary of workers' militancy.

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