The purpose of this study was to conduct an ecological examination of the relationship between social integration and dropout rates at the school and community level, and the role of career and technical education in this relationship. This paper also attempts to determine if this relationship changes depending on how urbanicity is operationalized. This study adds to the existing research concerning the ecological relationships between dropout rates, community social integration, school social integration, and urbanicity in Mississippi. Three-year averaged event dropout rates for 2005-2008, multiple community and school measures of social integration, and three different operationalizations of urbanicity were used. Some expected relationships were found to be true while others indicate that social integration at both the school and community level are so intertwined in their effects on dropout rates that no clear pattern emerges. The varying results related to the role of urbanicity in this study provide support for the need to further examine the concepts of community and location as factors that impact educational outcomes such as dropping out of school. This is particularly important when one considers that most educational policies that are implemented in a state tend to be overarching treating school districts no matter what size they are the same. This study also highlights that there are factors that impact what one would traditionally expect to find in the relationship between dropout rates and social integration that do not hold true. For example, an inverse relationship between dropout rates and local funding was expected, but in this study the relationship was found to be positive. One possible explanation for this is related to the fact that local taxes for schools are mandated by the county government and not voted on by the people. This changes the theoretical expectations of this relationship leading to possibly false assumptions.

This dissertation consists of three essays. In the first one (Chapter three), "Gains and Losses from Household Formation," I introduce a general equilibrium model, wherein a household may consist of more than one member, each with their own preferences and endowments. In these models at first, individuals form households. Then, collective decisions (or bargaining) within the household specifies the consumption plans of household members. Finally, competition across households determines a feasible allocation of resources. I consider a model with two types of individuals and pure group externalities. I investigate the competitive equilibrium allocation and stability of the equilibrium in that setting. Specifically, I show that under a certain set of assumptions a competitive equilibrium with free exit is also a competitive equilibrium with free household formation. Similar results are obtained for a special case of consumption externality. Illustrative examples, where prices may change as household structures change, are used to show how general equilibrium model with variable household structure works and some interesting results are discussed at the end of the first essay. In the second essay (Chapter four), “Effects of the Price System on Household Labor Supply,” I introduce leisure and labor into the two-type economy framework that was constructed in the first essay. The main objective of this essay is to investigate the effects of exogenous prices on the labor supply decisions, and completely analyze the partial equilibrium model outcomes in a two-type economy setting. I assume a wage gap and explore the effect of that gap on labor supply. The main content of the second essay is the analysis of the effect of change in wages, price of the private good, power of each individual in the household, relative importance of private consumption compared to leisure, and the level of altruism on individual's decisions about how much private good or leisure he/she wants to consume. The effect of a relative price change on labor supply, private consumption and utility level is also investigated. Moreover, one of the variations of Spence's signaling model is borrowed to explain why higher education of women in Iran does not necessarily translate into higher female labor force participation. Finally, fixed point theorem is used to calculate the power (or alternatively labor supply) of individuals in the household endogenously for the two-type economy with labor at the end of this essay. In the third essay (Chapter five), “Dynamics of Poverty in Iran: What Are the Determinants of the Probability of Being Poor?,” I explore the characteristics of the households who fall below the poverty line and stay there as well as those who climb up later. I decompose poverty in Iran into chronic and transient poverty, and investigate the relation of each component of poverty with certain characteristics of households. I also study mobility and the main characteristics of growth in expenditure of households. One of the main issues in economic policy making nowadays is the evaluation of effectiveness of anti-poverty programs. In order to achieve this goal one should be able to track down a household for a period of time. In this essay, I am going to investigate the dynamics of poverty in Iran during 1992-95. I am especially interested in finding the characteristics of the households that fall below the poverty line and stay there in addition to those that climb up later. Obviously, if policy-makers want to have efficient policies to reduce poverty, they should target the former group. I decompose poverty in Iran into chronic and transient poverty, and investigate the relation of each component of poverty with certain characteristics of households. I also study mobility in this period with an emphasis on mobility in and out of poverty and review the main characteristics of the growth in expenditure of households. / Ph. D.

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Submitted in fulfilment of the requirement for the degree MAGISTER TECHNOLOGIAE in Quality Faculty of Engineering CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, 2012 / Post apartheid South Africa experienced major economic turbulence with poverty, unemployment and skills shortage, with most manufacturing and other key economic sectors affected by poor productivity and a subsequent downsizing of their labour work force. At the same time, many economic opportunities arose, including the full impact of globalisation, the emergence of China and Africa as economic partners and becoming a full member of the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) economic development group by the year 2010. The government and business communities at large realised the necessity for skills augmentation in order to expedite economic development and alleviate the scarcity of employment opportunities and growth across the major economic sectors. The backdrop of the economic upheaval of 2008 and 2009 placed manufacturing firms under pressure to reconsider their current operational strategies by streamlining their organisations and adopting aggressive lean and cost saving approaches in order to remain competitive. There is a perceived lack of alignment between industry and institutions alike, sometimes resulting in a perception that graduating industrial engineers do not entirely match industry expectations. Thus, it is imperative to explore the articulation and relationship between those industries that rely on the skills of industrial engineering technologists and the graduate industrial engineers with emphasis on the skills expectations as stressed by the national priorities and the academic capacity to meet these skills expectation in today’s competitive professional arena. This perceived lack of alignment between end user requirements and the service provided falls within the ambit of the field of quality management. This study focuses on two main sample groups within two areas of interest: • The industrial engineering student community and their respective academic environments; and • the relevant industrial engineering industry and its working environment. A self-administered questionnaire coupled with a number of interviews is employed in order to gather the required data. Grouped samples, involve the relevant industry employers, students and academic institutions. The research explores the pertinent roles and responsibilities expected of industrial engineers and industrial engineering technologists on entry into the working environment, as compared to the current level of training offered by various institutional bodies as expressed by the South African qualifications authority (SAQA) and the national qualifications framework (NQF). The validation of the analysis and outcomes of the study culminates through the exploration of the following: • The influence of skills levels on productivity within the relevant industrial engineering industries. • The demand and supply of industrial engineering skills. • Skilling industrial engineering graduates for their required roles and responsibilities. • Governing bodies responsible for the curriculation of industrial engineering programmes, offered by institutions of higher learning. The study aims to proffer valuable knowledge by identifying better opportunities for employment in the industrial engineering field, the addition of value towards better industrial engineering schooling and output quality of students emerging from institutions, and lastly superseding earlier misconceived perceptions of industrial engineering.

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本論文主要在探討現階段（1979年改革開放後）大陸城鎮地區勞動力失業問題，包括城鎮人力資源、公開性失業、下崗職工、冗員、隱性失業、勞動力低度運用問題，以及這些問題造成人力閑置、國民經濟損失之經濟分析。 人力資源是經濟發展過程中最重要的因素。充分開發利用人力資源，不僅是社會經濟的需要，也是勞動者自身生存和發展的需要。大陸城鎮人力資源呈穩定增長趨勢，就業人口到1998年末達到20,678萬人，占總就業人口29.6%。按人力資源充分開發利用的要求來看，在大陸城鎮地區還有相當的差距。主要表現在人力資源事實上存在一定的閑置。分為兩個方面來談： 一是城鎮存在大批失業人口。1992年以來大陸城鎮的登記失業人口一直保持上升趨勢，1998年登記失業人口為571萬人，登記失業率為3.1%。另外，按1995年1%人口抽樣調查資料計算結果， 1998年調查失業人口（其中包括從未工作和失去工作正尋找工作者）為1,145萬人，調查失業率為6.2%，相當於登記失業率的2倍。若再將下崗職工併入計算，則1998年城鎮真實失業人口測算為1,528萬人，真實失業率為6.9%。 其二是城鎮勞動力有相當部份是處於不充分就業（隱性失業）狀態。包括了企業等單位之冗員（富餘人員）、被迫（破產、停產）下崗職工、提前退休職工。據測算，目前大陸城鎮企業—主要是國有企業，隱性失業人口為3,207萬人，隱性失業率為15.1%。 綜上所述，失業造成人力資源的閑置（包括公開失業及隱性失業）達到了3,778萬人，人力閑置率為17.8%。另外，透過Okun’s law，可算出1998年真實失業率6.9%之下導致國民生產（GDP）的損失比重最高達到13%。失業問題可說是帶給中共當局及人民帶來極大的經濟負擔。 近年來，中共積極推動「再就業工程」政策，試圖照顧及安置失業和下崗職工再就業，實施以來，雖獲得相當之效果。不過，在執行過程中，由於存在來自政策、資金、社會及職工本身的許多障礙，使得效果大打折扣。基於此，提出擴大勞動力需求量、降低勞動力供給與健全勞動力市場三種途徑，配合社會保障制度之完善來解決大陸城鎮失業問題。 大陸政經環境變化一向牽動兩岸經貿的發展，蓋勞動面的因素（就業政策、工資結構和勞資糾紛秩序）更是台商投資大陸的關鍵動機，牽涉我國對兩岸互動政策的規劃。值此兩岸經貿愈趨頻繁之際，熟悉大陸城鎮勞動力就業現況與趨勢，乃是極為重要的課題之一。 / This essay is related to research the unemployment of labor force in urban areas of Mainland China after the reform in 1979. It includes urban’s labor resources, open unemployment, laid-off workers, supernumerary, disguised unemployment, labor utilized inadequately problems, and idleness as well as the economic analysis of GDP loss caused by these above problems. Human resource is the most important factor in economic developing process. Sufficiently utilizing human resource is not only the demand of social economy, but also that of labors’ existence and development. Human resource in urban areas of Mainland China is the steady rising trend so that the number of employed population archived 206,780,000 till the end of 1998, 29.6 percent of the total employed population. According to the request of sufficiently utilizing human resource, it is a quite gap, the existence of idleness in human resource, in urban areas of Mainland China. There are two main points detailed below: First, there are most unemployed population occurred in urban areas. From 1992, the registered unemployed people in urban areas still remain the rising trend. For example, the number of the registered unemployed people is 5,710,000 as well as the rate of the registered unemployed people is 3.1 percent in 1998. In addition, based on the outcome of the random sampling of one percent of people in 1995, the examined unemployed people in 1998 is 6.2 percent, equaled to twice of the registered unemployed rate. Thus, if calculated with laid-off workers, the number of the real unemployed population in urban areas in 1998 is approximately 15,280,000 and the real unemployment rate is 6.9 percent around. Secondly, there are fairly disguised unemployment happened in urban’s labor, included supernumerary, laid-off workers, and prematurely retired workers in enterprises. According to measure corporations in urban corporation of Mainland China, most is state-owned enterprise; the disguised unemployment is 32,070,000; the disguised unemployment rate is 15.1 percent. To summarize, the amount of the idleness of human resource caused by unemployment, included open and disguised ones, archives 37,780,000 and the rate of labor resources idleness is 17.8 percent. Moreover, the rate of GDP loss reached 13 percent under the real unemployed rate, 6.9 percent, in 1998 calculated by Okun’s law. Hence, the unemployed question brings the huge economic load for people and state of Mainland China. Recently, the state of Mainland China aggressively pushes “re-employment engineering“ policy. It tries to care and settle the unemployment and laid-off workers to re-employ in enterprise. Since accomplishing this policy, the outcome doesn’t very outstand obviously although it got some effects in fact, because there are many obstructions from policy, capital, society, and labors’ selves during the performing process. Consequently, this essay provides three ways, the expanding labor demand, the lowering labor supply, and establish labor market, to mach the social security system in order to perfectly solve the unemployed questions in urban areas of Mainland China. Any change of politic and economic environment must bring the development of cross-strait economy. Further, the factors from labor sides, such as the employed policy, the wage structure, and the strife discipline of labor relation, are main incentives of Formosan businessmen to invest in Mainland China since they are related to the cross-strait plan from Formosa to Mainland China. Thence, it’s one of the most courses to acquaint the current and trend of employed labors in urban areas of Mainland China upon the frequent cross-strait economy.

以出生年份所定義的七年級生，因其富庶卻又嚴苛的生存條件而與草莓族形象疊合，形成獨一無二的「草莓世代」。筆者身為七年級生的一員，關注此世代從無到有、經由比較與召喚所被建構的過程。首先將勾勒出七年級生的成長背景，討論他們何以繼釣魚台世代之後被指認，並試圖指出其歷史意義；其次蒐集七年級生在財經企管雜誌中的相關表述，並置於時空脈絡中探討其形象如何被建構，及背後的論述形構。世代的建構與定義方式，從曼海姆與蕭阿勤的自我定義與實踐，消費社會中以行銷為本、針對年輕族群所貼的標籤，到「草莓世代」的勞動主體建構，反映不同的命名邏輯與社會脈絡。本研究發現，草莓世代中的「生產力論述」中出現了工作倫理轉向，從生產者社會的全景敞視規訓，轉化為消費者社會中具備彈性與動能、隨時召喚認同的生命治理模式：由內而外進行勞動主體的調理與改造，使之內化此規訓法則，進而成為個體化社會中自負盈虧、高度彈性的理想勞動力。 / Youths born in 1980s (The Post-80s) were raised rich yet faced relatively crucial living status when grown up, and thus were defined as unique "strawberry generation." As part of the youths, I concern the process that how the generation emerged by comparison and interpellation. First of all, the article illustrates social background in the 1980s, discussing why the Post-80s were identified as “strawberry generation” after the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands generation, and then points out the historical meaning behind. Secondly, I collected essays about the Post-80s in business magazines, analyzing how their images were constructed and the discursive formulation in temporal context. The ways that generations were constructed and defined were shifting from the self-definition/practice that Mannheim and A-chin Hsiau have discussed, labels on youths in terms of marketing strategy of consumer society, to the construction of labor subjectivity among "strawberry generation." Furthermore, the evolution reflects different naming logic as well as social context. In this research, I discover that there has been a work ethic turn in the "productivity discourses" of strawberry generation. It turns from the panoptical discipline of producer society to the flexible/dynamic biopolitics that may call for identification in consumer society. In terms of the biopolitics, it manages to convert labor subjects from the inside out, making them internalize the discipline rules and thus become ideal labor force who takes his/her own responsibility with higher mobility.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-23T14:36:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tania Maria Silveira.pdf: 737098 bytes, checksum: ed78c7fa1892b4d871352d5fd0375676 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta dissertação estuda o papel do desenvolvimento tecnológico no capitalismo e consiste em revisão teórica baseada em duas linhas de pensamento, a análise de Karl Marx e a tese do capitalismo cognitivo segundo a proposição de Yann Moulier-Boutang. Além de apresentar como Marx explicitou a inovação tecnológica e suas consequências no processo de produção, analisa por que os pensadores do capitalismo cognitivo sustentam que o modo de produção, baseado nas novas tecnologias da informação e da comunicação, modifica o capitalismo. Dado a abrangência do assunto, foram adotados como elemento principal de análise os efeitos das tecnologias informacionais sobre o processo de trabalho e a valorização do capital. Neste ponto estudado verificou-se que essas teorias são convergentes quanto à centralidade do trabalho e divergentes quanto à compreensão do trabalho produtivo. Em Marx, é a força do trabalho que produz valor, e a exploração do tempo de trabalho excedente valoriza o capital; em Moulier-Boutang, o valor é resultado da exploração do trabalho imaterial e da força-invenção pelos cérebros conectados em rede de computadores, portanto, o conhecimento é considerado fator econômico / This dissertation approaches the role of technological development in capitalism. It consists in a theory review based on two lines of thought: Karl Marx s analysis and the thesis of cognitive capitalism according to Yann Moulier-Boutang s proposition. Besides presenting the way Marx viewed technological innovation and its consequences to the production process, this study analyzes why scholars of cognitive capitalism sustain that the mode of production, based on information and communication technologies, modifies capitalism. Given the broadness of this issue, the effects of information technologies on the labor process and valorization of capital were adopted as the main element in this study. Concerning this point, the study found those theories to converge in relation to centrality of labor, but to diverge in terms of understanding productive labor. For Marx, labor produces value, whereas the exploitation of exceeding labor-time values capital; for Moulier-Boutang, value is the result of exploiting immaterial labor and inventive-force, i.e. the computer-network brains. Therefore, knowledge is considered an economic factor

FundaÃÃo de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Cearà / A presente Tese compreende um exame crÃtico da estrutura de funcionamento do sistema do capital, à luz da contradiÃÃo central assinalada por Karl Marx nos Grundrisse. A contradiÃÃo vai se tornando visÃvel com a substituiÃÃo do trabalho vivo (trabalho humano direto) pelo trabalho morto (mÃquinas). Em decorrÃncia, esvazia-se a substÃncia do valor e os trabalhadores diretos sÃo reduzidos à condiÃÃo de apÃndice de mÃquinas que trabalham, restando-lhes as atividades de reguladores e de suportes para complexos automÃticos. O movimento lÃgico do valor e o transcurso histÃrico do processo de subsunÃÃo do trabalho ao capital, propiciam a hipÃtese de que o conjunto dos trabalhadores estaria sendo submetido a uma tendÃncia perversa que qualifica desqualificando suas aptidÃes e habilidades. Ao mesmo tempo, simplifica o trabalho e desvaloriza a forÃa-de-trabalho. A fim de averiguar tal processo de disrupÃÃo do mundo do trabalho, constituiu-se um objeto de pesquisa que permitisse checar a atuaÃÃo de trabalhadores tidos, pelo senso comum, como altamente qualificados. Eis a razÃo pela qual se tomou como plano investigativo, a âbusca dos egressos do CEFETCEâ no mercado de trabalho, centrando a investigaÃÃo nos haveres tecnolÃgicos de mecatrÃnicos e telemÃticos. A questÃo bÃsica à verificar atà que ponto esses operadores high-tech ativam a gama dos conhecimentos obtidos em sua formaÃÃo teÃrico-prÃtica cefeteana, no dia-a-dia das atividades profissionais. Foram entrevistados sessenta tecnÃlogos, alÃm de professores, administradores industriÃrios e operÃrios de fÃbrica vinculados a dÃspares ramos de produÃÃo de mercadorias. As entrevistas foram sempre secundadas por visitas a vÃrias plantas produtivas. Como resultado, o pesquisador foi premiado com um fÃrtil material sociolÃgico, prenhe de expressÃes simbÃlicas e de constructos tÃcnicos. A materialidade e a imaterialidade das experiÃncias, explÃcita e implicitamente vivenciadas, evidenciaram a âcontradiÃÃo em processoâ no coraÃÃo de sistemas de produÃÃo automÃticos. Nestes, estÃo reservados para os trabalhadores imediatos atos fetichistas como âcuidarâ (de mÃquinas), âassistirâ (linhas de produÃÃo), âolharâ (supervisÃrios) e âtrocar placasâ (eletrÃnicas) etc. / The present Thesis comprises a critical examination of the structure of the working of the system of the capital, in the light of the central contradiction indicated by Karl Marx in the Grundrisse. The expression of the contradiction gets visibility with the substitution for dead labor (machines) of live labor (human direct labor). Therefore, the substance of value becomes empty and the direct laborers are reduced to the condition of appendix of machines they work with, remaining to them the activities of regulating and supporting the automatic complexes. The logical movement of value and the historical course of the process of subsumption of labor to capital provide the hypothesis that the working class were being submitted to a perverse trend that qualifies in a disqualifying manner its aptitudes and abilities. At the same time, that process simplifies the labor and devaluates labor-force. In order to investigate such process of disruption of the world of labor it was crucial to choose an object of research that allowed checking the performance of workers recognized by common sense as highly qualified. That is the reason for which the âsearch of the egresses of the CEFETCEâ in the labor market was the core of the investigation. Technological assets of mechathronics and telematics technicians were investigate. The basic question of the inquiry is to verify to what extent these high-tech operators activate, the gamma of knowledge acquired during theoretical and practical formation at CEFETCE, to their everyday professional activities. Sixty technologists were interviewed, as well as, professors, industrial managers and laborers of various branches of merchandise production. The interviews always were seconded by visits to some productive plants. As a result, the researcher was awarded with a fertile sociological material, pregnant of symbolic expressions and technological constructs. The materiality and the immateriality of the experiences evidenced âthe contradiction in processâ in the heart of automatic systems of production. In those systems, fetishist production acts are set aside for the direct workers, in the form âcaring ofâ (machines), âwatchingâ (production lines), âlooking atâ (monitors) and âchanging platesâ (electronics) etc.

Orientador: Paulo Celso Miceli / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T03:49:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lima_MarcosAlbertoHorta_D.pdf: 680824 bytes, checksum: f8d8e65d3d717f26f5223d2613369886 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: A tese deste estudo é que, ao longo do período de 1919 a 1930, ao criticarem as leis do trabalho preconizadas pelo Estado brasileiro, os industriais reclamaram para os patrões a responsabilidade pela integração do trabalhador à ordem do capital, concebendo um projeto político. Esta tese é relacionada aos trabalhos acadêmicos cujas interpretações se impuseram como referência, compreendendo uma reflexão sobre a construção das respectivas diferenças entre os estudos / Abstract: The thesis of this work is that, during the years of 1919 to 1930, the industrials criticized the laws of work established by the State, and complained to them about the responsibility for the integration of the worker towards the capital, forming a political project. This thesis is related to academic works, who's interpretation have been imposed as a reference, making a reflection about construction of respective differences between the studies / Doutorado / Historia Social / Doutor em História