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Rev. Perry C. Bramlett Collection
No full textFinding aid of the Rev. Perry C. Bramlett manuscript collectionA graduate of Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky; a noted author; and a dedicated and respected scholar, Rev. Perry C. Bramlett�s life work was taking C. S. Lewis to the local church. His widow, Joan Fine Bramlett of Fairhope, Alabama, selected Mercer University to house this collection to honor Bramlett�s work, to share the significance of Bramlett�s life, and to mark his contributions to the scholarship of C. S. Lewis and his friends and their influences
The Rise and Fall of the Jumbo Breakfast Roll: How a Sandwich Survived the Decline of the Irish Economy
No full textThis paper examines a specific food item - the Jumbo Breakfast Roll [JBR] - through a sociological lens, in order to trace the factors that contributed to its rise to prominence in Irish food culture in the 'Celtic Tiger' period of the late 20th/early 21st century. It also examines the development of these factors in the period following the crash of the Irish bubble economy. It is argued that the JBR arose at the intersection of a number of key trends in the food technology, retail, transport, distribution and construction sectors. Yet the JBR also had its antecedents in established foodways and traditions. It reflects on how the JBR could be interpreted as a 'national dish' that symbolised a particular moment in contemporary Irish society, and raises the possibility that a sociologically-informed analysis of such emblematic dishes allows us to explore aspects of national society, culture and economy within a globalised world.Fast Food; Ireland; Culture; Economic Conditions; Celtic Tiger; Convenience Stores; Baking Technology; Sandwich
Labour’s share of growth in income and prosperity
No full textThe paper is about the sources of growth in income in Australia and the effects of structural change on the distribution of income between labour and capital. The main objective is to find an explanation for the fall in the labour share of income in Australia in the 2000s.
Key points
The labour share of income fell by 4 or more percentage points in the 2000s.
However, labour was no worse off in the process.
Labour income grew at a faster rate in the 2000s than in the 1990s through stronger growth in both wages and employment.
The labour income share only fell because capital income growth accelerated even more.
The rise in the terms of trade meant that product prices rose faster than consumer prices. While labour received a smaller share of income at product prices, the slower growth in consumer prices meant that the real value of each dollar earned was worth more in terms of its purchasing power. This purchasing power effect (which was available to all income earners) more than outweighed the apparent reduction in labour\u27s share of national income.
The large rise in Australia\u27s terms of trade brought strong growth in real income —even stronger than the growth in the \u27productivity decade\u27 of the 1990s.
This provided scope for growth in both labour and capital income to rise.
Other high-income countries also experienced a decline in the labour income share, but driven by a different set of factors. In other countries, growth in labour income has suffered.
The mining boom was overwhelmingly responsible for the fall in labour share in Australia:
Development of mining and associated capacity added to the economy\u27s capital stock, leading to more capital-intensive production overall.
Higher output prices for minerals (and construction) reduced the real cost of labour so that growth in real wages fell behind labour productivity growth.
The two other industries most affected by the mining boom — Construction and Manufacturing — served to increase the labour income share.
In Manufacturing, a slowdown in capital income growth meant the industry contributed more to labour income than to capital income at the aggregate level.
Construction had stronger growth in capital income than in labour income. However, because the industry is labour intensive, growth in Construction\u27s labour income had a greater effect on aggregate labour income than growth in its capital income had on aggregate capital income.
As the terms of trade now decline, the labour income share will rise. But with a more capital-intensive economy, the share is unlikely to revert fully to previous levels.
Action to restore the old labour income share or to recover \u27lost\u27 income share through wage rises would probably only have adverse consequences for employment and inflation and for industries already facing adjustment pressures.
With the prospect of declining terms of trade, a focus on productivity growth will be the way to sustain growth in real wages
The decline of the U.S. labor share
No full textOver the past quarter century, labor’s share of income in the United States has trended downward, reaching its lowest level in the postwar period after the Great Recession. A detailed examination of the magnitude, determinants, and implications of this decline delivers five conclusions. First, about a third of the decline in the published labor share appears to be an artifact of statistical procedures used to impute the labor income of the self-employed that underlies the headline measure. Second, movements in labor’s share are not solely a feature of recent U.S. history: The relative stability of the aggregate labor share prior to the 1980s in fact veiled substantial, though offsetting, movements in labor shares within industries. By contrast, the recent decline has been dominated by the trade and manufacturing sectors. Third, U.S. data provide limited support for neoclassical explanations based on the substitution of capital for (unskilled) labor to exploit technical change embodied in new capital goods. Fourth, prima facie evidence for institutional explanations based on the decline in unionization is inconclusive. Finally, our analysis identifies offshoring of the labor-intensive component of the U.S. supply chain as a leading potential explanation of the decline in the U.S. labor share over the past 25 years
Health Share CHIP progress report
No full textThis archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
The Stability of the Covariances of International Property Share Returns
No full textThis paper looks at the covariance structure of international property share returns. Portfolio models, which are used to generate efficient international asset allocations, require estimates of a covariance structure of asset returns as input. Usually, the realized structure is used as a proxy, but that is only valid if this structure is stable. We test for this stability. We find covariances of international property share returns to be unstable, while correlations are stable between some time-periods, and unstable between others. The results cast some doubts on the use of standard portfolio models for the allocation of international real estate portfolios.
Commentary: Water: A Preventable Disaster
No full textEditor-in-Chief\u27s Note: The Texas Water Journal invited Texas state Senator Charles Perry, Chair of the Senate Committee on Water and Rural Affairs, to share his thoughts on the role of water in the coming 87th legislative session of the Texas Legislature. In the upcoming legislative session, Senator Perry said Texas will be navigating the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the road to recovery and continuing water supply development. In the commentary, Senator Perry addresses how leveraging technology, public-private partnerships, and regulations will encourage the creation of new water sources while also expanding existing strategies. The opinion expressed in this commentary is the opinion of the individual author and not the opinion of the Texas Water Journal or the Texas Water Resources Institute.
Citation: Perry C. 2020. Commentary: Water: A Preventable Disaster. Texas Water Journal. 11(1):172-173. Available from: https://doi.org/10.21423/twj.v11i1.7129
Impact of Privatization on Employees’ Treatment towards Share Ownership
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to find out whether employee share ownership would have the same impact on the employees from Latvian joint stock companies that underwent privatization in the early 1990s and from the ones without such experience. For the purposes of the analysis the author uses the data from two empirical surveys. The author discovers the current situation in Latvia regarding ESO. The author finds out the opinions regarding share ownership, share purchase, change in employees’ motivation and performance considering employees that have experienced privatization and the ones that have not
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
Book review: A sociology of Ireland / by Hilary Tovey and Perry Share. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2000.
No full textAccording to its authors, this book has two aims. The first is to offer an interpretation of the development of Irish society. The second is to provide an
introduction to the discipline of sociology. Underpinning both of these is a particular
vision of the nature of sociology. This regards all sociologies as in part at least national ones. The concern of sociology is to understand the particular society that the
sociologist is a part of rather than interpreting it as a distorted version of some kind of amorphous modern society that is only inhabited by social theorists. As such this perspective involves taking Irish society seriously as a society in its own terms and not as an inferior or defective version of supposedly modern societies such as the United States, Germany or Great Britain. This is a useful and important starting argument all the more significant for the fact that it had to be made. It is an odd reflection on
the institutional status of Irish sociology and of the status within that of work on
Ireland that the authors feel the need to articulate and defend this position. It is
unlikely that a textbook on British, American or Australian society would have to
begin in this manner. But then senior professors in these countries would have
achieved their position on the basis of research and interpretative work done of the
countries in which they are employed, a situation that generally speaking does not
apply in Ireland
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