Book Reviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-198
Keyword(s):  
Older Workers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
State University ◽  
Wellesley College ◽  
Stock Market Crash ◽  
Montana State University ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
The Impact

Wendy A. Stock of Montana State University reviews “Reconsidering Retirement: How Losses and Layoffs Affect Older Workers” by Courtney C. Coile and Phillip B. Levine. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins: Examines how the current economic crisis will affect older workers' decisions to retire, including the impact of stock, housing, and labor markets on the transition into retirement. Discusses defining and explaining retirement; detecting the impact of market conditions; the impact of the stock market crash; the impact of the housing market crash; the impact of the labor market crash; and implications for retiree well-being. Coile is Class of 1966 Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Wellesley College. Levine is Catherine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor in the Department of Economics at Wellesley College. Index.

Book Reviews

2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 210-213 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Reference Group ◽  
Multidimensional Poverty ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Yale University ◽  
External Effects ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Timothy W. Guinnane of Yale University reviews “Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History” by Angus Maddison,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Revised and extended edition examines methods of measuring happiness, focusing on subjective measures as a proxy for welfare and well-being. Discusses the analysis of income satisfaction with an application to family equivalence scales; domain satisfactions; the aggregation of satisfactions--general satisfaction as an aggregate; political satisfaction; males, females, and households; the impact of past and future on present satisfaction; the influence of the reference group on our norms; health and subjective well-being; the effects of climate on welfare and well-being--external effects; how to find compensations for aircraft noise nuisance; taxation and well-being; subjective income inequalities; a generalized approach to subjective inequalities; poverty; and multidimensional poverty. Van Praag is at the University of Amsterdam, the Tinbergen Institute, and SCHOLAR. Ferrer-i-Carbonell is at the Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats and at the Institut d’ Analisi Economica. Index.”

Book Reviews

2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 204-207
Keyword(s):  
Reference Group ◽  
Multidimensional Poverty ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Equivalence Scales ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
External Effects ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Income Satisfaction

Nattavudh Powdthavee of University of York reviews “Happiness Quantified: A Satisfaction Calculus Approach” by Bernard Van Praag, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Revised and extended edition examines methods of measuring happiness, focusing on subjective measures as a proxy for welfare and well-being. Discusses the analysis of income satisfaction with an application to family equivalence scales; domain satisfactions; the aggregation of satisfactions--general satisfaction as an aggregate; political satisfaction; males, females, and households; the impact of past and future on present satisfaction; the influence of the reference group on our norms; health and subjective well-being; the effects of climate on welfare and well-being--external effects; how to find compensations for aircraft noise nuisance; taxation and well-being; subjective income inequalities; a generalized approach to subjective inequalities; poverty; and multidimensional poverty. Van Praag is at the University of Amsterdam, the Tinbergen Institute, and SCHOLAR. Ferrer-i-Carbonell is at the Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats and at the Institut d’ Analisi Economica. Index.”

scholarly journals TÉCNICOS ADMINISTRATIVOS E POLÍTICAS AFIRMATIVAS: o que mudou na Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wildacy Gonçalves Ribeiro EVANGELISTA ◽  
Cintia Souza Machado FERREIRA
Keyword(s):  
Student Affairs ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
State University ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Development Unit ◽  
Work Routine ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This study, supported by bibliographical and documentary research, discusses the implementation of Public Policies for Affirmative Actions at the State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS) and the impacts on the work routine of the institution’s Administrative Technicians. It aims to verify the impact of the extinction of an Organization and Community Development Unit to the category, whose purpose was the development of actions aimed at life quality and social well-being of Technicians, Teachers and Students, for the implantation of a Pro-Dean of Affirmative Policies and Student Affairs aimed at students. The results point to the need for a better understanding of affirmative action policies across the University Community, showing the changes that have affected Administrative Technicians in detriment of this organizational change, reveal the lack of systemic training to support the quota population, and signal the need for a close look to Administrative Technicians demands for improving working conditions and life quality by UEFS.

scholarly journals The Time Has Come... To Move Many Things: Inventorying and Preparing a Collection for Offsite Storage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachelle M. McLain ◽  
Hannah McKelvey
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Poster Session ◽  
Project Manager ◽  
Third Party ◽  
State University ◽  
Library Administration ◽  
Montana State University ◽  
Student Employees ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The Impact

In the spring of 2019, the Montana State University (MSU) Library embarked on a large-scale inventory project that involved weeding and moving portions of their collection to an offsite storage facility within six months in order to create more student study space in the Library. The department primarily responsible for leading the project, Collections Access & Technical Services, the result of two departments merging, was also simultaneously navigating their new structure and a remodel of their workspace thus adding further challenges to the project. This poster session demonstrated how MSU Library approached and completed this project by advocating to their Library Administration for additional resources, including hiring a project manager and third-party companies to assist with the inventory and moving of the collection. It also discussed the types of work groups formed to identify new workflows (i.e., retrieval of offsite items) and modify existing ones, involving student employees in the project, and internal and external collaborations that took place. Additionally, presenters shared strategies used to communicate to their campus community, and the impact this project has had on our patrons. They also included statistics that were gathered during the project including deselection figures, the number of materials that did not have barcodes and were not accounted for in the Library’s catalog and discovery layer (Ex Libris’ Alma and Primo), and what subject areas currently remain in the main library building.

scholarly journals East-West: US-Japan exchange and its effects on community development: An interactive case study of Jamaica Plain and Zushi

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 159-168
Author(s):  
Ellen Shoshkes
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
State University ◽  
Portland State University ◽  
Interactive Case Study ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Town ◽  
East West

Dr Shoshkes is an architect and planner based in Portland, Oregon, where she is Adjunct Associate Professor of urban planning at Portland State University. She is currently undertaking archival research and conducting oral histories regarding Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (1905-1983), the town planner, editor, and educator, as the beginning phase of "Hidden Voice: the Contribution of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt to the Origins and Evolution of Urban Design in America, 1945-1976." This paper is based on her previous work concerning Tyrwhitt in context of an inquiry into the larger topic of the impact of the creative dialogue between East and West on the field of community development.

Implementation of Resource Discovery

2012 ◽  
pp. 598-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth P. Babbitt ◽  
Amy Foster ◽  
Doralyn Rossmann
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Resource Discovery ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
State University ◽  
Montana State University ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
The Impact

Academic libraries have a myriad of information sources for their communities, yet meeting users at their point of need can be a daunting task. Web-scale discovery tools offer a way to pull together many library resources for retrieval through a single search interface. The lessons learned in this case study at Montana State University include challenges with implementation, troubleshooting, collection development, and user education. Strategies and solutions to problems such as “full-text red herrings” (broken links to articles from aggregated databases) as well as techniques for prioritizing search results are described. Incorporating locally digitized collections in the discovery tool is also explained. The impact of discovery on collection development can take many forms and this case study details three issues that this implementation caused to emerge. The examples described in this chapter serve as helpful considerations for other academic libraries in their Web-scale discovery product exploration, implementation, and analysis.

scholarly journals AGENCY IN LATE-CAREER TRANSITIONS: THE IMPACT ON ADJUSTMENT AND SATISFACTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S21-S21
Author(s):  
van Solinge
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Career Transitions ◽  
Involuntary Retirement ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Pension Age ◽  
State Pension ◽  
The Impact

Abstract In research on late career transitions agency is implicitly assumed. The extent to which older adults are able to shape their late career in the face of external constraints, such as a rising state pension age, may however be limited. Constraint agency may have impact on well-being. Using data from a panel study among 5,300 older workers in the Netherlands, we examined the impact of agency in the work-retirement transition on adjustment and life satisfaction. Results show that adjustment to a the higher retirement age is more challenging than adjustment to retirement. Life satisfaction increased among those who retired, but not among those who remained working. One third experienced constrained agency (involuntary retirement or non-retirement). The negative association between constrained agency and life satisfaction was stronger for participants still in the labor force than for retirees. Our findings demonstrate that involuntary non-retirement has stronger implications for well-being than involuntary retirement.

scholarly journals Should I Stay Or Should I Go: The Role Of Communication In Striving To Retain Older Employees

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Jana Znidarsic ◽  
Sandra Penger ◽  
Vlado Dimovski
Keyword(s):  
Older Workers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Older Employees ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
The Impact ◽  
European Labor Markets

The impact of population ageing that goes hand in hand with ageing of the workforce is already deeply felt on European labor markets including Slovenian and will manifest itself more prominently in the next years. One of the most discussed policy options that would mitigate possible negative consequences of population and workforce ageing is to promote that older employees work longer, even after the age of 65. But this scenario is not an easy one. Prolonging working life can only be done by enabling older workers to remain productive, thus able and willing to work. By implementing active ageing policies at workplace, the employers can play an exceptional role in persuading older workers to prolong their working lives for their own well-being and for the good of society. The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of communication when older workers are deciding whether to stay or not.

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