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Flexible Work Arrangements: Improving Job Quality and Workforce Stability for Low-Wage Workers and their Employers

Glenn, Jessica; Watson, Liz - 2009

In 2009, workers and their families across the country felt the impact of serious economic downturn, with unemployment reaching a 26-year high. While recent news suggests things may be improving, we cannot forget that for many low-wage and hourly workers -- who now represent over a quarter of...

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Lower-Wage Workers and Flexible Work Arrangements

Danziger, Anna; Boots, Shelley Waters - 2008

Workers at all levels within an organization have the need to manage their work and personal/family responsibilities. Much of the past research on workplace flexibility has focused on managerial or professional positions, and thus, higher-wage jobs and workers with higher incomes. But more...

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The Relationship Between Workers’ Centers And Labor Unions In The United States Today

Stone, Ian - 2008

This paper seeks to explore the link between unions and nonprofit adult education programs such as those found in workers’ centers in the United States today. It is apparent that current organizing strategies applied by larger unions in the United States today are changing out of necessity....

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The Relationship Between Workers’ Centers And Labor Unions In The United States Today

Stone, Ian - 2008

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Distributing the Benefits from the Commons

Silvestre, Joaquim - 1993

"The common-property literature has often focused on the question of efficiency. Here we consider distributional issues instead. How should the benefits of the commons (say, a fishery) be distributed? We approach the question from the viewpoint of ownership rather than income redistribution. "A...

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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas

Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001

"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...

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Appropriation Externalities in the Commons: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Herr, Andrew - 1996

of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader …

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Essays on Individual Behavior in Social Dilemma Environments: An Experimental Analysis

Dudley, Dean - 1993

"In this study, individual level behavior is investigated in the context of computer assisted voluntary contribution mechanism public good (VCM) provision experiments and common pool resource (CPR) appropriation experiments. Previous studies of these environments have concentrated on aggregate...

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Salience and Its Implications for Common-Pool Resource Management in Scotland: A Tragedy of a Different Kind?

Brown, Katrina Myrvang; Slee, Bill - 2002

"In past contributions to CPR theory, the issue of salience/dependence on a resource has been flagged up as a one of a … high. However, cases do exist of CPRs in which this assumption does not hold, and consequently, related theory proves to be … into question the possibility and utility of constructing a coherent CPR meta-theory." …

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Institutional Equilibrium and Equilibrium Institutions

Shepsle, Kenneth A. - 1983

"This theme paper focuses on political institutions and their effects on social choice. Institutions are argued to play a mediating rolebetween the preferences of individuals and social choices. In addition to playing an endogenous role in molding and channeling preferences, institutions...

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