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PDF Ebook Non-Violent Conflict Management: Conflict Resolution Dealing with Anger Negotiation and Mediation

The rationale for this set of modules is that conflict is inherent in every facet of the programs that are part of ... and other personnel. Theories of non-violent conflict management are based on the notion that becoming comfortable with the ... of the main purposes of weaving this coursework into the training received by child welfare workers is that participants will become ...

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Ebook Life Cycle Time Allocation and Saving in an Imperfect Capital Market

Submitted by puput on Thu, 01/14/2010 - 03:52

The central characteristic of the standard model of consumption choice over the life cycle is that the income generation process is effectively exogenous to the household. This follows from the assumed separability of leisure and consumption. The main preoccupation of the literature over the last couple of decades has been the "excess sensitivity puzzle", created by the fact that the data show household consumption tracking income over the life cycle in a way that is hard to reconcile with the premise that the capital market allows the household to decouple its consumption and income paths. The controversy continues over how to resolve this puzzle within a model that takes the only household decision variables to be its dated consumptions, with its income stream treated effectively as exogenous.

The leading contenders for resolution of this puzzle seem to be: precautionary or buffer&stock saving; liquidity constraints in the extreme form of the complete absence of borrowing possibilities; and demographic effects, especially the presence of children.

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Ebook The State’s Monopoly on Legitimate Violence

Submitted by antoq on Sat, 01/03/2009 - 02:10

The monopoly on legitimate force or violence belongs to the essential elements of modern statehood – so the scholarly consensus since Thomas Hobbes or at least since Max Weber. In “Economy and Society” Weber defines the state as a political organization whose “administrative staff successfully upholds the claim to the monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force in the enforcement of its orders” (Weber 1922: 29, translation). This definition seems to be very clear, but sometimes it leads to misunderstandings.

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Ebook Large Firms, Foreign Firms, and Domestic Wages

Submitted by puput on Sun, 09/19/2010 - 04:11

A number of papers have documented the finding that foreign firms pay higher wages and, to the best of our knowledge, no study has found the opposite. There are (at least) two approaches to explaining these finding that we will compare here. One we will call the worker learning model, and the other we will refer to as the heterogeneous-worker model. We think it is fair to say that empirical evidence on the former is substantial but that the model’s theoretical foundations are under developed. There also exists evidence supporting the heterogeneous-worker model, with good theory behind it.

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