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Byron-Bergen Central School District and Byron-Bergen Central School Faculty Association (2019)
Get PDFFairness in College Admission Exams: From Test Score Gaps to Earnings Equality
Get PDFThis paper asks whether reducing socioeconomic gaps in college admission exam scores also reduces earnings inequality. A simple framework shows that the answer to this question depends on the exam’s predictive power for students’ earnings returns to college quality. I exploit a redesign of the Colombian national college admission exam to estimate these returns. Low-income students who took the new exam received higher scores and attended better colleges, but they had lower earnings after college. Thus exams with lower score gaps may not reduce earnings inequality if they are poor predictors of which students would succeed at better colleges
How Perceptions of One’s Organization Can Affect Perceptions of the Self: Membership in a Stable Organization Can Sustain Individuals’ Sense of Control
Get PDF[Excerpt] Organizations have a strong stake in their employees’ sense of self-efficacy; that is, in their subjective sense of self-control and their capacity to act effectively and achieve desired outcomes in their personal lives, as well as on the job. Studies show that a strong sense of self-efficacy contributes to a host of favorable psychological and behavioral outcomes, including the tendency to set stretch goals, work hard, persist on difficult tasks, experience less stress, and bounce back in the face of adversity. Relatively little, however, is known about the factors that foster perceptions of self-efficacy in the first place. There is some theory and research to suggest that participation in stable collectives may play a major role. Stable groups, for example, engender an aura of control and efficaciousness that their participants often internalize which, in turn, strengthens their sense of control. Conversely, the insecurity and doubt associated with unstable groups are likely to have the opposite effect. These relationships appear to be particularly robust among members who have strong affective ties with their groups. Interestingly, stable collectives also may play a role in restoring members’ sense of self-efficacy when it is threatened, even when the challenges lie outside the collectives’ domains. That is, when group members encounter situations over which they have little or no control, they tend to seek out stable social structures to help restore the balance which, in turn, enhances their identification with the group (and by extension serves to restore their sense of self-esteem). Notice that most of these suppositions rest on research conducted with small groups and teams. The central question of interest here is whether the same dynamic occurs in the context of work organizations
Erasing Red Lines: Part 1 - Geographies of Discrimination
Get PDFSince at least the 1930s, the City of Buffalo, New York has been spatially and socially divided. While certain mixed use and residential communities across the map have shown remarkable resilience—and thrived—during the City’s history of deindustrialization and population loss, many communities of color on Buffalo’s East and West Sides have experienced persistent and increasing levels of distress. This series of brief reports examines those patterns and engages with strategies for reinvesting in chronically distressed communities.
This report is Part 1 of a threepart series that examines the roots and spatial patterns of economic distress in the City of Buffalo, NY, and engages with strategies for reinvestment in the City’s chronically distressed neighborhoods. The series is adapted from a collection of peer-reviewed articles and books listed in the “Further Reading” section at the end of each report. Part 1 of the series briefly and selectively introduces readers to the history and empirical evidence of urban decline in the postindustrial United States generally, and in the City of Buffalo specifically. The report provides background definitions, highlights spatial patterns, and summarizes findings from data analyses
Faculty Publications 2018-2019
Get PDFThe production of scholarly research continues to be one of the primary missions of the ILR School. During a typical academic year, ILR faculty members published or had accepted for publication over 25 books, edited volumes, and monographs, 170 articles and chapters in edited volumes, numerous book reviews. In addition, a large number of manuscripts were submitted for publication, presented at professional association meetings, or circulated in working paper form. Our faculty\u27s research continues to find its way into the very best industrial relations, social science and statistics journal
Counter-Organizational Track Record in Business/Industry, 1975-1977
Get PDFA list of industries and unions, with information including locations and when their union organizing drive was defeated or stopped
Dandelion Curriculums and Roadmap - 3 Year (2 of 2)
Get PDFThe proposed Curriculum is designed to guide the Dandelion Support Team (Technical and ASC) through the implementation of the Dandelion Program. The related Roadmaps show the recommended sequence of process transformation initiatives, over a period of 3 years, based on business and IT priorities, effort, and learnings
