The welfare implications of increasing disability insurance benefit generosity

In order to evaluate whether workers are over- or under-insured through the Disability Insurance (DI) program, we develop a framework that allows us to simulate the benefits as well as the costs associated with marginal changes in payment generosity from a representative cross-sectional sample of the population. Under the assumption that individuals are reasonably risk averse, we find that the typical worker would value increased benefits somewhat above the average costs of providing them. However, whether the benefit increases tend to lower or raise utility when we average across all individuals in our sample is sensitive to assumptions that affect the relative marginal utility of income to disabled individuals.     

Predictors and processes of satisfaction with work–family balance: Examining the role of personal,work, and family resources and conflict and enrichment

Drawing from resource-based theories, we conduct two studies to investigate the unique and relative importance of personal (e.g., resilience, proactive health behaviors), work, and family resources (i.e., enriched job and family roles, work and family support) to balance satisfaction, and the mediating roles of conflict and enrichment. We test our hypotheses in Study 1 using a cross-sectional survey of 216 employees and in Study 2 using a time-lagged survey over 3 months with 220 employees. Across both studies, work and family resources (e.g., enriched job and family characteristics, work and family support) were positively related to balance satisfaction. In general, work resources were more relevant to balance satisfaction than were personal or family resources. In terms of processes, work resources relate to less work-to-family conflict and greater work-to-family enrichment which in turn, relate to greater balance. In contrast, the family-to-work directions of conflict and enrichment were just weakly related to balance. Across the two studies, findings regarding the role of personal resources were mixed. We discuss how these findings expand our understanding of work–family balance and the practical implications for human resource practitioners.     

The interplay of drivers and deterrents of opportunism in buyer–supplier relationships

Fostering and maintaining buyer–supplier relationships is a fundamental premise of many channel initiatives. Indeed, these relationships may culminate in significant performance enhancements and competitive advantage. Yet these relationships may also result in competitively harmful events such as partner opportunism. Despite this potential competitive erosion, there is a lack of studies examining the interplay between the drivers and deterrents of opportunism. By building on transaction cost economics and social capital theory, we examine, via a sample of 400 manufacturing firms in China, how the interplay between drivers (relationship-specific investments and behavioral uncertainty) and deterrents (inter-firm social capital) of opportunism affect partner opportunism in buyer–supplier exchanges. The significance of this interplay between the drivers and deterrents sheds new light on how a firm can leverage social capital to curb the harmful effects of opportunism.     

Labor Market Segmentation and Job-Related Risk

A bstract . Labor market segmentation theory calls into question the neoclassical theory of compensating wage differentials , which posits that workers are compensated for job-related risk. From the perspective of segmentation theory , one would expect secondary workers to experience greater risk on the job with less likelihood of compensation. An empirical examination of worker samples, using discriminant analysis to construct primary and secondary subsamples, reveals that the wages of primary workers vary directly with the probability of job related death, injury and disease. No such relationship holds for secondary workers , who are also shown to experience significantly higher levels of job related risk and disamenity than their primary counterparts.     

让领导人理解真实的企业文化（一）

你真正了解所在企业的文化吗?在如今快速变化的商业环境中,能否正确理解和评估企业文化意味着能否成功。但从另一个角度来说,高级管理者,经常从期望而不是现实出发来理解企业文化。本文将指出在理解企业文化现况时会出现的一些问题,阐释管理者在创造和维持文化中所发挥的作用,     

Solvency Solecisms: Corporate Officers' Problematic Perceptions

This examination of corporate officers' perceptions provides insights into their confused understanding of solvency. Questionnaire and interview evidence exposes officers' equivocations on whether a separate legal entity or group enterprise perspective should be adopted in assessing solvency. The serviceability of consolidated (economic entity or closed group) accounting data is demonstrated here to be equally problematic for officers making those solvency assessments in respect of an economic group and any related closed group. These outcomes have implications for agencies such as APRA and ASIC in developing regulatory policy.     

POVERTY DYNAMICS DURING TRADE REFORM: EVIDENCE FROM RURAL VIETNAM

This paper implements and adapts the conceptual framework developed by Winters (2002) that identifies the transmission mechanisms between trade policy reform and household welfare outcomes. We make use of household panel data from Vietnam collected in two years, 1992–93 and 1997–98 that span the very earliest years of the reform period and its immediate after effects. Poverty dynamics are modeled using changes in consumption expenditure and poverty transition models. The trade effect is captured by a set of variables that are most likely to have an impact on rural poverty, namely prices of staples and employment in the export sector. We show that trade liberalization has a material and positive effect on rural household welfare and this trade effect is largely transmitted to the poor through the labor market channel.