Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Public Policy - Economic Policy

This book explores the development, analysis, and interpretation of disability statistics, which is a very important component of official statistics. Disability, a concept with multiple definitions and dimensions, has become a very important policy issue in the United States and around the world. Proper understanding of the social problems associated with disability is influenced by how we conceptualize and define the disablement process, operationalize those concepts, collect and produce the data and finally, how we analyze and then interpret that data. The interplay of legislative...

This book compiles the presentations and discussions from the international symposium Beyond Global Capitalism that was held with the contributions of Emmanuel Todd, Ha-Joon Chang, and other scholars in Kyoto, Japan, in 2013. The book is intended make the reader aware that global capitalism, or globalism, has increased its power in recent years, bringing about a variety of harmful effects to the peoples of the world. Drawing upon a variety of academic disciplines including economics, political economic science, economic thought, anthropology, history, and political science, the...

There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income in the United States in the last four decades. In his most recent book, Baker shows that this upward redistribution was not the result of globalization and the natural workings of the market. Rather, it was the result of conscious policies that were designed to put downward pressure on the wages of ordinary workers while protecting and enhancing the incomes of those at the top. Baker explains how rules on trade, patents, copyrights, corporate governance, and macroeconomic policy were rigged to make income flow upward.

Americans today face no shortage of threats to their financial well-being, such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling college tuition. While one might expect that these concerns would motivate people to become more politically engaged on the issues, this often doesn't happen, and the resulting inaction carries consequences for political debates and public policy. Moving beyond previously studied barriers to political organization, American Insecurity sheds light on the public's inaction over economic insecurities by showing that the rhetoric surrounding...

This addendum to The Clean Power Plan's Economic Impact shows detailed results for the 48 contiguous

states.

For each state, the findings present four different expenditure burdens:

1. The current average annual electricity costs relative to 2014 median household income (cost burden) by

neighborhood (formally U.S. Census Tracts);

2. The impact on the electricity cost burden by neighborhood if the Clean Power Plan (CPP) is implemented,

and consumers do not change their behavior;

3. The impact on the electricity cost burden by neighborhood...

Kim Leonie Kellermann analyzes the impact of sectoral minimum wages in Germany on the willingness of youths to undergo apprenticeship training. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel, the author shows that higher wage floors set small, positive incentives for vocational training in the respective sectors. In case employers have to pay higher wages, they preferably hire qualified workers so that the worse job prospects of the low-skilled outweigh the potential pay increase. In order to preserve these training opportunities, it can make sense for policymakers to exempt...