Finance, Work and Welfare

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18 Vlad Rabich: Employment – focus on the low wage labor market, the opportunites that poor people do and don’t have to ‘escape poverty’ – how has the low wage labor market changed, how does welfare help to maintain a “wage floor”, also talk about undocumented labor, prison labor, the ‘wal-mart effect’ politics of dead end jobs, the service sector, the ‘feminization’ of the low wage labor market, and the regulation of the low wage labor market – minimum wage, labor laws/protections (organizing, health and safety, etc…) – talk about the idea of ‘contingent labor’ or ‘precarious employment’

[edit] Employment Opportunities, Wage Labor and Workfare

Wage floor: How the "poor people" willingness to take on any sort of work keeps the wages down for all of society

Escaping Poverty: Ways to find a job, succeeding vs. failure

Illegal workers: Their role in the labor market

Dead End Jobs: Is a dead end job really better than no job at all?

Contingent Labor: Is temporary employment the answer?

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Peck, James. “Workfare in the sun: politics, representation, and method in the U.S. welfare-to-work strategies” Science Direct, Volume 17, Issue 5, June 1998, Pages 535-566

Peck, Jamie, Theodore, Nikolas. “Work first': Workfare and the regulation of contingent labour markets” SocINDEX: Cambridge Journal of Economics; Jan2000, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p119, 20p, 1 Chart

Bernasek, Alexandra, Kinnear, Douglas. “Workers' Willingness to Accept Contingent Employment”. SocINDEX: Journal of Economic Issues; Jun99, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p461-469, 9p, 2 Charts

"Wages" U.S Department of Labor, http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/wages/index.htm, 11/09/08

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19 Teresa Hill: Taxes – corporate welfare, audits, attacks against taxes, “the taxpayer revolution”, history of tax rates, spending on different social programs (for different people) – US budget spent on different programs.

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My topic that I will be focusing on as you can see from the title will be taxes as a general topic, but I will touch on corporate welfare and how taxes affect them as a company,I will of course talk about the welfare of the people and how taxes affect us as people, what programs are bing supported the most through taxes, the reasons why taxes is attack so much,etc.... I will pretty much capture what taxes do or has done for our society and the benefit of it whether wealthy or poor.

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1. "Empirical evidence on intergenerational inequality of tax burdens in the U.S. and Japan" Journal of Socio-Economics, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2008, Pages 2214-2220 Kosei Fukuda My Comment: This piece as if it will give me a big prepective on the tax burden in U.S and in Japan but my main concern is the U.S. It briefly in the abstract talks about the importance of age, and period that intergenerational inequality isn’t observed. 2. "White Certificates for energy efficiency improvement with energy taxes: A theoretical economic model" Energy Economics, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2008, Pages 3044-3062 Vlasis Oikonomou, Catrinus Jepma, Franco Becchis, Daniele Russolillo

20 Yuliya Farber: Pensions and Social Security – Explain what these are, their differences, how old people support themselves, the idea of retirement, retirement ages, current arguments for and against privatizing social security – the idea of “social insurance” or the insurance model… Read Katz – The Price of Citizenship – he has a chapter on each of these topics)

Introduction

My project is about social security and pensions. What I really wanted to do is basically describe what each one is and their differences. I also wanted to talk about how people can get either one of them, what are certain procedures and limitations. Also I wanted to briefly discuss privatizing social security and how will it affect everyone.

Resources

1. “Increased Wealth and Income as Correlates of Self-Assessed Retirement.” Preview By: Caputo, Richard K.. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2006, Vol. 47 Issue 1/2, p175-201, 27p, 3 charts; (AN 23103626) I chose this article because it talks about retirement, how people should retire and what are their choices of supporting themselves. 2. “Opting out of social security” Preview By: Smetters, Kent; Walliser, Jan. Journal of Public Economics, Jul2004, Vol. 88 Issue 7/8, p1295, 12p; DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(02)00180-9; (AN 12042148) I chose this article because it states all the positives for privatizing social security. 3. “WELFARE REFORM IN AMERICA.” Preview By: Mead, Lawrence. Family Matters, Winter2000 Issue 56, p34-39, 6p, 2 bw; (AN 3906239) This article is great because it talks about how government reformed the welfare system and how it is going to affect the future generations. 4. “Integration of unemployment insurance with retirement insurance” Preview By: Stiglitz, Joseph E.; Yun, Jungyoll. Journal of Public Economics, Dec2005, Vol. 89 Issue 11/12, p2037-2067, 31p; DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2004.12.007; (AN 19003686) This article talks about private pension plans and how they work. 5. “Do changes in pension incentives affect retirement? A longitudinal study of subjective retirement expectations” Preview By: Chan, Sewin; Stevens, Ann Huff. Journal of Public Economics, Jul2004, Vol. 88 Issue 7/8, p1307, 27p; DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(02)00223-2; (AN 12042149) This article talks about how a person can chose what kind of pension they want and it shows the possible options that they have.’

Social security

I will discuss what is social security, how and when do you get it and what are its pros and cons. I would also like to talk about privatizing social security and whether or not it is better to do so.

Pension

Here I will talk about how pensions work, what different types of pensions are there and how can you acquire one.

Comparison

The main thing that I would like to work on is to find all the differences and similarities of social security and pensions. I want to talk about which is better for people and whether or not you can have both.

23 Tomeka Jonas: Comparative analysis of Bankruptcy laws among UK & US.''History of Bankruptcy,fraud, comparison between UK AND US laws, the nature of the laws, interpretation of the laws, comparison of US & UK vs third world countries bankruptcy laws, how bankruptcy works, insolvency act (UK), Bankruptcy Code (US) and bankruptcy abuse prevention and consumer protection act (BAPCPA)

References: Coles, Ian, Simon Pullen, and Mayer Brown. "Key differences between the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and the U.K. Insolvency Act 1986." Mayer Brown 08/2003 10/10/2008 www.mayerbrown.com/publication/article.

Ferriell, Jeff, and Edward J. Janger. Understanding Bankruptcy. 2nd. New York: LexisNexis Law school Publishing, 2007

Keay, Andrew, and Peter Walton. Insolvency Law: Corporate and Personal. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2003.

King, Lawrence P. "Bankruptcy Code."Collier on Bankruptcy . 15TH. 2008.

Miller, Fred H., and Alvin C. Harrell. The ABCs of the UCC: Related insolvency Law. 2nd. USA: The American Bar Association, 2006.

Norton Jr., William. "Bankruptcy Rules." Norton Bankruptcy and Law Practice 1-15(2007)

Ramsay, Iain. "Comparative Consumer Bankruptcy and Debt Adjustment." Association of American Law Schools. 21 Oct 2008 <http://www.aals.org/profdev/bankruptcy/ramsay.html>.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy#United_Kingdom

Finance, work and Welfare Group: Bankruptcy (3)

21,22,23 Jonathan Choi, Candy Abreu, Tomeka Jonas: Bankruptcy How does bankruptcy work – for individuals, for corporations, explain the recent changes, relate to consumer debt, the housing crisis – mortgages, maybe compare with bankruptcy protections in micro-credit programs, look for theoretical explanations of bankruptcy protection – arguments for and against… Tomeka wants to do an international comparison – England and the US – explain the official differences, also compare these two to bankruptcy practices in the third world – micro credit programs specifically

21.Jonathan Choi-Bankruptcy-Will try to focus on the financial crisis and how it will impact regular people. I will research bankruptcy in a general knowledge sense, to build my understand on how this bailout will effect the general public.

References-

1.The financial crisis has exposed the bankruptcy of New Labour economics. Europe Intelligence Wire 8 Oct 2008. p.NA Source: Business & Company Resource Center Show In Clusters

2.Bailout brings with it diverse perks.(Business/Financial Desk) Bernard, Tara Siegel. The New York Times (0362-4331) 4 Oct 2008. Vol.158,Iss.54453;p.C6(L) Source: New York State Newspapers Show In Clusters | 2 Duplicate Records

3.BIDS TO HALT FINANCIAL CRISIS RESHAPE LANDSCAPE OF WALL ST.(National Desk)(Wall Street) Sorkin, Andrew Ross. The New York Times (0362-4331) 15 Sep 2008. Vol.157,Iss.54434;p.A1(L) Source: New York State Newspapers

4.Capitalism must rediscover its ethical roots for good of all We have to return to an economy driven not by consumer debt but by productive investment. The Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland) 9 Oct 2008. Source: InfoTrac Custom Newspapers Show In Clusters

5.Chronicle of a Disaster Foretold. Forbes (0015-6914) Oct 27, 2008. Vol.182,Iss.8;p.27 Source: Biography Resource Center Show In Clusters

6.US mortgage rates spike on bail-out.(MARKETS & INVESTING) Scholtes, Saskia. The Financial Times (0307-1766) 17 Oct 2008. Source: InfoTrac Custom Newspapers Show In Clusters | 1 Duplicate Records

7.McCain mortgages. Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) Oct 14, 2008. p.NA Source: Biography Resource Center Show In Clusters | 1 Duplicate Records

8.The Conservator: Saving States from Political Bankruptcy Helman, Gerald B. Harvard International Review (0739-1854) winter 2008. Vol.29,Iss.4;p.68-73

9.Fitch Monitoring Potential Implications of Lehman Bankruptcy on Global Synthetic CDOs. Investment Weekly News 4 Oct 2008. p.282

10.CHAPTER 11 BANKRUPTCY PROFESSOR; NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW; BARRY E. ADLER. FDCH Congressional Testimony 9/26/2008.

11.How bailout might help troubled homeowners; Bankruptcy rules, loan modifications are key elements. Said, Carolyn. San Francisco Chronicle (1932-8672) 24 Sep 2008. p.C1

12.http://sites.google.com/site/radicalperspectivesonthecrisis/news