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The rise and fall of Britain’s Golden Cohort: how the remarkable generation of 1925–1934 had their lives cut short by austerity Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Lucinda Hiam, Danny Dorling
The British born between 1925 and 1934 experienced exceptional improvements in their annual mortality; earning them the title ‘the Golden Cohort’. They were the goldilocks generation; almost all to...
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The understructure of market production Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Tom Malleson
This paper argues that the mainstream economics view of production based on the conventional factors of production is socially and empirically inaccurate, giving a distorted view of the nature of t...
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Aligning corporate behaviour with the public good: a commentary on Bennett and Claassen Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Anselm Schneider
Published in Review of Social Economy (Vol. 82, No. 1, 2024)
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Security in context (SiC): a novel theoretical and empirical approach to the US–China rivalry Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Min Ye
The twenty-first-century global arena is profoundly shaped by the intensifying US–China rivalry. While theories in the US, such as the Thucydides’ Trap and the Clash of Civilizations, forecast a pr...
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Pattern and drivers of profitability in India’s unorganised manufacturing sector Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Md. Nasir Khurshid, Debarshi Das, Amarjyoti Mahanta
Using data from National Sample Survey Organisation surveys, the paper analyses the profit rate and its drivers in India’s unorganised manufacturing sector for the period 2000–01 to 2015–16. The en...
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The corporate social assessment: making public purpose pay Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Michael Bennett, Rutger Claassen
Corporations can be powerful engines of economic prosperity, but also for the public good more broadly conceived. But they need to be properly incentivized to fulfil these missions. We propose an i...
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Postal banking and US cash transfer programs: a solution to insufficient financial infrastructure? Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Melanie G. Long, Steven Pressman
Direct cash transfers to households during the COVID-19 pandemic, including relief checks and Child Tax Credit payments, were delayed by weeks for recipients without bank accounts and were not rece...
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Uncertainty and economic futures in the public sphere: an introduction Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Amitava Krishna Dutt
Published in Review of Social Economy (Vol. 81, No. 3, 2023)
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Racial differences in the relationship between the receipt of informal financial support and social insurance Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Dania V. Francis, Christian E. Weller, Emek Karakilic, Maryam Salihu
In this paper, we examine the relationship between the reliance on informal financial support and social insurance programs such as unemployment insurance to meet financial hardships imposed during the economic downturn associated with COVID-19. We use the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey to compare the likelihood of receiving informal financial support from family and friends for households
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Establishing a public option for asset management in the United States Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Lenore M. Palladino
Asset managers – financial institutions like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard – manage trillions of dollars of US household financial assets, including public pension funds at the federal, state, and municipal level. The structural power of asset managers means they play a decisive role in corporate decision-making, while the conflicts of interest inherent in their business model and a short-term
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Correction Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2023-07-04
Published in Review of Social Economy (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Caste, religion and the labor force participation of women: evidence from India Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Muzna Fatima Alvi
This study examines the origins and evolution of labor force participation rate differences between women from different ethnic groups in India. The data comes from the Indian National Sample Survey covering the period from 1983 to 2012. I use parametric and semi-parametric methods to study inter-group participation gaps and find that the caste gap has been narrowing over time, while the religion gap
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Effects of parental HIV on children’s education: a qualitative study at Mashambanzou Zimbabwe Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Tatenda P. Zinyemba, Wim Groot, Milena Pavlova
We investigate mechanisms that influence the effects of parental HIV on the education of children. The study was conducted at Mashambanzou Care Trust in Harare, Zimbabwe. We sampled low-income HIV-positive and HIV-negative mothers who had a total of 71 children in their care. HIV-positive mothers were on treatment and women in the sample had at least one school-going child. We use a framework that
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Measuring the effect of self-reported sexual orientation on earnings: evidence from the general social survey Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Jorge Medina
This study uses General Social Survey (GSS) data to explore the difference in earnings between gay, lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual individuals. The most recent GSS surveys have data on self-identified sexual orientation, providing an opportunity to explore its role as a determinant of earnings with more accuracy than previous estimations in the literature relying on sexual history or cohabitation
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Discrimination as social exclusion Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Korkut A. Ertürk, Sanchit Shrivastava
Much discrimination works through exclusion. Poor access to public goods disadvantages minority individuals before they reach the job market. Market impediments to competition cannot explain exclusionary discrimination, and the question is, what can? This paper draws on two different nonmarket theories of discrimination, ‘discriminatory equilibrium’ and ‘stratification economics’, to address the question
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Introduction to the special issue: Justice and solidarity in Europe Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Andrea Sangiovanni, Juri Viehoff
Published in Review of Social Economy (Vol. 81, No. 1, 2023)
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Elite circulation, rent-seeking and rank-keeping: analytical insights from the case of Thailand Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Gwendoline Promsopha, Antoine Vion
The role of elite coalitions, violence and social orders in the development process has recently resurfaced in economic literature. In this article, we mobilize some of the literature on elite coalition, elite circulation and institutional change and provide a framework for understanding institutional change as the result of major misalignment between rent-seeking and rank-keeping. We also analyse
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Of fields and of factories: the political construction of comparative advantage in French wine and German core manufacturing Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Elizabeth Carter
ABSTRACT This article explores state-association dynamics in large quality sectors, focusing specifically on the institutionalization of power across production networks. I demonstrate how incentives for high value-added production emerge when normally competitive production actors organize to solve their problems and speak together with one voice to shape policy through a bureaucratically powerful
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Self-fulfilling crises in the Eurozone and the institutional preconditions of republican sovereignty Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Stefano Merlo
The normative vocabulary of republican political theory can be fruitfully applied to evaluate the phases of market turbulence in sovereign debt markets witnessed during the Eurozone crisis. A view of justice that requires the minimisation of dominating relationships between agents highlights how the institutional preconditions of undominated sovereignty were lacking in the Eurozone. The agreed-upon
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Streaming the festival: what is lost when cultural events go online Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Alan Shipman, Ann Vogel
Cultural events and collections, as curated assemblies of artists and artwork attended by live audiences, are recognised as a large and growing source of added value in contemporary accounts of ‘cr...
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Dissecting communities of renewable energy: a comparative investigation in New Aquitaine (France) Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Claudia Colombarolli, Luca Storti
ABSTRACT Market liberalization in the energy sectors has created several regulatory gaps that ‘heterodox forms’ of economic experiences – such as Community Renewable Energy Organizations (hereinafter, CREOs) – can fill. CREOs are cooperatives or corporations, financing the installation of energy devices. But how do CREOs establish themselves? What are the different ‘social features’ that CREOs assume
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The effects of COVID-19 on labor force nonparticipation in the short run: racial and ethnic disparities Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Oudom Hean, Nattanicha Chairassamee
ABSTRACT We study the labor force nonparticipation in U.S. metropolitan areas during the early period of the COVID-19 crisis. While the magnitudes are small, we observe statistically significant differences between non-white and white workers’ labor nonparticipation. In particular, non-white workers in the ‘very-low teleworkable’ industries are more likely to drop out of the labor market. Aside from
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The social ambiguity of money: empirical evidence on the multiple usability of money in social life Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Klaus Kraemer, Luka Jakelja, Florian Brugger, Sebastian Nessel
In regard to the purpose of money use, economic theory provides a functionalist answer, while a dominant sociological view focuses on culture. However, Simmel noted the paradoxical nature of money ...
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Can baby bonds address the injustice of racial wealth disparities? Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Steven McMullen
The injustices that have been visited upon racial minorities in the United States have a substantial economic legacy, both in terms of wealth disparities and resulting structural differences in economic opportunities. In response, some prominent Black scholars and policymakers have proposed a ‘baby bonds’ wealth-building policy. In this paper, I complement the economic justifications for this policy
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Inequality, macroeconomic performance and political polarization: a panel analysis of 20 advanced democracies Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2022-03-19 Christian R. Proaño, Juan Carlos Peña, Thomas Saalfeld
This paper investigates the macroeconomic and social determinants of voting behavior, and especially of political polarization – defined here as the increasing electoral success of far-right and far-left parties – in 20 advanced countries using annual data from 1970 to 2016 and covering 291 parliamentary elections. Our analysis indicates that the link between income inequality and political polarization
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Introduction to the special issue ‘digital behavioral technologies, vulnerability, and justice’ Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2022-03-17 Lisa Herzog, Philipp Kellmeyer, Verina Wild
This short introduction presents the theme of the special issue and provides a preview of the articles.
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Solidarity and autonomy in the European Union Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Helder De Schutter
To determine at which level a particular policy domain ought to be governed, we need normative principles of levelism. In this contribution, I articulate and defend two normative principles of levelism for distributive justice in the European Union. According to the Highest-Level Solidarity Principle, we should transfer distributive solidarity to the highest level of the multilevel polity. In the EU
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Informed consent and algorithmic discrimination – is giving away your data the new vulnerable? Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Hauke Behrendt, Wulf Loh
This paper discusses various forms and sources of algorithmic discrimination. In particular, we explore the connection between – at first glance – ‘voluntary’ sharing or selling of one’s data on the one hand and potential risks of automated decision-making based on big data and artificial intelligence on the other. We argue that the implementation of algorithm-driven profiling or decision-making mechanisms
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Monetary solidarity in Europe: can divisive institutions become ‘moral opportunities’? Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2022-02-26 Waltraud Schelkle
How does the inherent norm of integration, notably to share risks among its members in good faith, become a self-sustaining practice? I address this question generally and for a critical case of a divisive institution, i.e. the evolution of sovereign bailout funding in the Euro Area since 2010. Community building between states is a potential outcome of solidaristic practices, reinforced by positive
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The rise and fall of Electra: emergence and transformation of a global cryptocurrency community Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Koray Caliskan
Electra was developed by an unknown man, Electra01. Following its emergence in cryptocurrency markets in 2018, its market capitalization briefly reached 136 billion USD, exceeding Bitcoin in value. The project’s community of 20,000 individuals, wrote its white papers, updated its blockchain, instituted a foundation, introduced a payment system, and voted to be the best crypto project in 2020 in the
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Does pollution perception lead to risk avoidance behaviour? A mixed methods analysis Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Pierre Levasseur, Katrin Erdlenbruch, Christelle Gramaglia, Sofia Bento, Lúcia Fernandes, Pedro Baños Páez
This paper looks at three contaminated communities in southern Europe facing pollution from industrial and mining activity and analyses forms of avoidance behaviour, using both economic and sociological approaches. Based on a quantitative household survey, we show that avoidance behaviour is mainly explained by residential location and socio-economic characteristics. Pollution perception is not statistically
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The blue of the rainbow: queerness and hiring discrimination in blue-collar occupations Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2022-01-28 Maryam Dilmaghani, Margaret Robinson
The extant literature and anecdotal evidence suggest that blue-collar workers who are openly queer (an inclusive term for sexual and gender minorities) are among the most marginalized in the labour market. This article reports the results of a correspondence audit of hiring discrimination in entry-level positions in the Canadian blue-collar sector. Creating four fictitious job candidates with welding
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The European Union and cross-national solidarity: safeguarding ‘togetherness’ in hard times Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Maurizio Ferrera
The EU is a new form of political organisation which can be defined as an “experimental polity”. Its distinctiveness lies in a novel assemblage of the constituent elements of polity (boundaries, binding authority, and bonding ties), and in the constant testing of new combinations of such elelements when facing functional and political challenges. Experimentalism is not always successful and can occasionally
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Food insecurity, austerity, and household food production in Greece, 2009–2014 Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Charalampos Konstantinidis
Despite the severity of the European economic crisis, its relation to key aspects of material deprivation remains understudied. In this paper, I use the Statistics on Income and Living Conditions dataset to analyze household food insecurity in austerity-ridden Greece between 2009 and 2014. First, I show that low-income, low-asset and non-EU citizens, as well as households in Athens and island regions
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Communicating identity: how the symbolic meaning of goods creates different market types Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2022-01-03 Carolina Dalla Chiesa, Erwin Dekker
This paper argues that the different symbolic meanings of goods give rise to three institutionally different market types. We start from the realization that consumption has symbolic meaning, which...
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Tales of self-empowerment through digital health technologies: a closer look at ‘Femtech’ Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Tereza Hendl, Bianca Jansky
Femtech technologies, such as period and fertility trackers, promise their users empowerment through reliable knowledge about and control over their bodies and ownership of their procreative health. However, the notion of empowerment through period and fertility apps deserves scrutiny. Based on a thematic analysis of a range of ‘female health’ app promotion materials, we explore the kind of empowerment
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Attitudes towards abortion: what role do educational attainment and cultural traits play? Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Nabamita Dutta, Lisa Giddings, Russell Sobel
Education affects individual values and beliefs, mitigates prejudices and enhances open-mindedness. Additionally, education has been shown to affect cultural traits like trust and respect in societies. Building on this literature and employing an extensive individual-level cross country data from World Value Survey (WVS), we explore the role of educational attainment and cultural traits in shaping
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The Italian community structuration of community development processes in Italy Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Bianchi Michele
ABSTRACT Italy is famous worldwide for its co-operative sector, and this firm model has proven to be efficacious in redressing many social inequalities over the past two centuries. This paper aims to examine how local communities in diverse regions have adapted this traditional form to the contemporary trend of bottom-up community development processes. Furthermore, the paper compares the Italian initiatives
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Corporate risk reporting about Brexit as political communication Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-11-07 Ekaterina Svetlova
How can we account for differences in the extent of risk disclosure among companies? The paper expands the existing explanations by claiming that corporate risk reporting is not just financial but also political communication. The presented empirical analysis of how corporations disclose Brexit-related uncertainties suggests that risk reporting is a part of a company’s holistic conversation with multiple
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Indoor air pollution and gender difference in respiratory health and schooling for children in Cameroon Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Novice Patrick Bakehe
Indoor air pollution (IAP) resulting from firewood used as cooking fuel is related to the respiratory problems and can lead to the reduction in human capital formation. Using data from the fourth Cameroonian survey of households carried out in 2014, we analyse if exposure to indoor air pollution resulting from the use of firewood provokes respiratory infections and if they have consequences on the
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How intelligent neurotechnology can be epistemically unjust. An exploration into the ethics of algorithms Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Sebastian Schleidgen, Orsolya Friedrich, Andreas Wolkenstein
Recently, the epistemic quality of algorithms and its normative implications have come under scrutiny. While general questions of justice have been addressed in this context, specific issues of epistemic (in)justice have so far been neglected. We aim to fill this gap by analyzing some potential implications of behavioral intelligent neurotechnology (B-INT). We claim that B-INT exhibits a number of
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Internet access, beliefs about HIV transmission and HIV–AIDS testing among women in Cameroon Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Mathieu Juliot Mpabe Bodjongo
This study highlights the influence of Internet access and beliefs about HIV transmission on HIV–AIDS testing among women in Cameroon. The analysis covers a sample of 5958 women, from the Multiple ...
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Care labor, intergenerational equity, and (social) sustainability Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-08-29 Jennifer C. Olmsted
Of the three sustainability (social, environmental and economic) pillars, the social one is the least developed. The 2020/2021 COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted why assuring social sustainability r...
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Differentiated integration as a fair scheme of cooperation Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-08-25 Richard Bellamy, Sandra Kröger
Differentiated integration (DI), whereby some MS opt out or are excluded from certain common EU policies for sovereignty or capacity reasons, may be thought to undermine the EU’s functioning as what John Rawls called a fair scheme of cooperation, grounded in norms of impartiality and reciprocity. However, we argue that different forms of DI can be compatible with either fair cooperation between states
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A just yet unequal European Union: a defense of moderate economic inequality* Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-08-19 Andreas Follesdal
What does justice require concerning socio-economic distribution among citizens of the European Union? The EU should reduce cross-national economic inequalities among inhabitants of different member states, but full economic distributive equality or a European ‘Difference Principle,' may not be required. Individuals' claim to more political influence over matters controlled by their own state in the
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Tolerance, social capital, and life satisfaction: a multilevel model from transition countries in the European Union Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-08-17 Frank Crowley, Edel Walsh
Tolerance of others on grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion and sexuality is an important component of social capital but has received scant attention in the social capital well-being ...
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Stability of the liberal order, moral learning, and constitutional choice: an unresolved tension in James Buchanan’s political economy Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-07-29
ABSTRACT Buchanan mentions at several points in his oeuvre the necessary role for a constitutional attitude. This attitude is both explanatory and evaluative; it explains why citizens value liberty but also highlights one of the necessary conditions for the stability of a free society. We argue that Buchanan’s idea of a ‘constitutional attitude’ is extremely relevant, though underdeveloped. Firstly
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Unpaid housework and super-exploitation of labor: a suggested model and empirical evidence from Mexico and Colombia Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Carlos Alberto Duque Garcia
The objective of this paper is to suggest a mathematical model of unpaid housework and empirically test its main predictions using data from Mexico (2014) and Colombia (2017) time-use surveys. The ...
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Digital behavioral technology, vulnerability and justice: towards an integrated approach Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Lisa Herzog, Philipp Kellmeyer, Verina Wild
ABSTRACT The paper introduces the notion of ‘digital behavioral technologies’ and discusses them from the perspectives of vulnerability and justice, thereby integrating perspectives from bioethics or public health ethics and political philosophy. Digital behavioral technologies have seen a massive uptake in recent years, but the market for them is hardly regulated. We argue that understanding the impact
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Prescribing and avoiding remedies: how industrial associations advanced futures out of the Brazilian recession (2014–2016) Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-06-27 André Vereta-Nahoum
This article comparatively analyzes the participation of two industrial associations in the politics of signification of the recent Brazilian recession (2014–2016), highlighting the frames they use to define the relevant problem and advance necessary remedies, and the artifacts they deploy to make such frames plausible and elicit support for their claims. In this sense, it contributes to recent debates
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De-unionization and the wages of essential workers Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-06-21 Adam Walke
A definition of essential industries based on recent federal government guidelines is used to trace out the trajectory of wages for essential and nonessential sectors over time in the United States. This retrospective approach is justified by the fact that the included industries provide goods and services that are essential to health and safety whether or not emergency conditions exist. Union density
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What’s that smell? Bullshit jobs in higher education Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-06-17 Michael Delucchi, Richard B. Dadzie, Erik Dean, Xuan Pham
This study examines the growth of administrative and non-academic staff positions in the United States higher education sector through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We first document th...
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Designing the fiscal-monetary nexus: policy options for the EU Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-06-17 Peter Dietsch
In recent decades, and in particular since the shift towards independent central banks, there has been no explicit coordination of fiscal and monetary policy. In the Eurozone, this lack of coordination represents an important flaw, especially since the Eurozone is not an optimal currency area. Complementing monetary union with a transfer union represents one possible solution. This paper argues that
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Socially oriented cooperative housing as alternative to housing speculation. Public policies and societal dynamics in Denmark, the Netherlands and Spain Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-05-02 Manuel Ahedo, Joris Hoekstra, Aitziber Etxezarreta
National housing systems increasingly combine three main types of housing: the private property sector (home ownership and private rental), social and public rental (public and non-profit sectors) ...
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Is the Platinum Rule credible? An examination of other-regarding perceptions and attitudes toward unethical behavior Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-04-18 Harvey S. James Jr.
This paper uses data for 53 countries from the World Values Survey in a multilevel regression analysis that seeks to disentangle individual, institutional and other-regarding factors affecting ethi...
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Imagining the future in Irish budgets 1970–2015: a mixed-methods discourse analysis Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Ewan MacDonald, Brendan K. O’Rourke, John Hogan
Annual budgets are key to constituting and governing imagined futures. This paper examines how the signifier ‘future’ is constructed within the Irish budget speeches delivered by finance ministers to parliament between 1970 and 2015. To investigate the discourses of these budget speeches, we employ post-structural discourse theory operationalised through two methods: close reading and corpus-linguistic
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(Online) manipulation: sometimes hidden, always careless Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Michael Klenk
Ever-increasing numbers of human interactions with intelligent software agents, online and offline, and their increasing ability to influence humans have prompted a surge in attention toward the concept of (online) manipulation. Several scholars have argued that manipulative influence is always hidden. But manipulation is sometimes overt, and when this is acknowledged the distinction between manipulation
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Regulating for gender equality in business: the law on gender quotas and the network of interlocking directorates in Norway, 2008–2016 Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-03-21 Trond Løyning
This article analyses effects of the law of gender quotas for company boards in Norway on the network of interlocking directorates in the period 2008–2016. It is argued that these networks are important regarding gender equality and diversity. Analysis of the regulated corporations (Public Limited Companies – PLCs) shows that female directors get and keep central positions in the networks during this
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Essentially unemployed: potential implications of the COVID-19 crisis and fiscal response on income inequality Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-02-26 Ansel Schiavone
I analyze the impact of the CARES Act unemployment subsidy on US income and inequality in the first month of the COVID-19 crisis using March-April Current Population Survey data. I then use monthly industry unemployment data to extend this panel to July. Next, I estimate the impact of the expiration of the CARES Act subsidy on average income and inequality. Finally, I extend the panel to November to
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Why expanding capabilities does not necessarily imply reducing injustice: an assessment of Amartya Sen’s Idea of Justice in the context of Mexico’s Oportunidades/Prospera Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Oscar Garza-Vázquez
The idea that discussions about justice ought to offer practical political guidance has gained force in recent years. In this context, Sen's Idea of Justice (2009) aims at fulfilling this role. I assess to what extent Sen's comparative approach to justice succeeds in providing a useful conceptual framework to reduce injustice in practice, as it claims. Using the context of poverty in Mexico, and the