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âApprove to Declineâ: A feminist critique of âFairnessâ and âDiscriminationâ in a case study of EEO in the New Zealand Public Sector
The present paper aims to look at the contexts of meanings that surround Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) in practice, particularly for issues of gender justice. At the heart of the paper is a critical appraisal of one EEO event; an example drawn from the New Zealand public sector where claims to âgender disadvantageâ is made by an employee and responded to by the agency to which the claim is made. The event is representative of an instance where all parties are equally claiming the need to further EEO and fairness. By deconstructing the language and context of EEO in practice, the paper argues the point that EEO policy is not implemented in discursively uncontested contexts. At a substantive level, the paper builds on feminist theoretical perspectives of social justice, and questions if the contemporary frameworks of meaning in the public sector can support transformations of relationships of disadvantage. More pertinently, it asks if the âremoval of unfair disadvantageâ, on which EEO strategies are based, constitutes the promotion of social and gender justice
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Portfolio regulation of life insurance companies and pension funds
This paper examines the rationale, nature and financial consequences of two alternative
approaches to portfolio regulations for the long-term institutional investor sectors life insurance and pension
funds. These approaches are, respectively, prudent person rules and quantitative portfolio restrictions. The
argument draws on the financial-economics of investment, the differing characteristics of institutionsâ
liabilities, and the overall case for regulation of financial institutions. Among the conclusions are:
· regulation of life insurance and pensions need not be identical;
· prudent person rules are superior to quantitative restrictions for pension funds except in certain
specific circumstances (which may arise notably in emerging market economies), and;
· although in general restrictions may be less damaging for life insurance than for pension funds,
prudent person rules may nevertheless be desirable in certain cases also for this sector, particularly
in competitive life sectors in advanced countries, and for pension contracts offered by life
insurance companies.
These results have implications inter alia for an appropriate strategy of liberalisation.
1 The author is Professor of Economics and Finance, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB3 4PH, United
Kingdom (e-mail â[email protected]â, website: âwww.geocities.com/e_philip_davisâ). He is also a Visiting
Fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, an Associate Member of the Financial Markets
Group at LSE, Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs and Research Fellow of the Pensions
Institute at Birkbeck College, London. Work on this topic was commissioned by the OECD. Earlier versions of this
paper were presented at the XI ASSAL Conference on Insurance Regulation and Supervision in Latin America,
Oaxaca, Mexico, 4-8 September 2000, and at the OECD Insurance Committee on 30 November 2000. The author thanks
participants at the conference and A Laboul for helpful comments. Views expressed are those of the author and not
necessarily those of the institutions to which he is affiliated, nor those of the OECD. This paper draws on Davis and
Steil (2000)
Improving the Delivery of Key Work Supports: Policy & Practice Opportunities at a Critical Moment
Examines the consequences of a lack of coordination and seamless service delivery across support programs. Outlines policy, procedural, and data utilization options and best practices to expedite receipt of benefits across programs, as well as challenges
MS4 Resource: BMP Cost Estimates
BMP Cost estimate approach outlined in a recent EPA Region 1 mem
Linear Tabulated Resolution Based on Prolog Control Strategy
Infinite loops and redundant computations are long recognized open problems
in Prolog. Two ways have been explored to resolve these problems: loop checking
and tabling. Loop checking can cut infinite loops, but it cannot be both sound
and complete even for function-free logic programs. Tabling seems to be an
effective way to resolve infinite loops and redundant computations. However,
existing tabulated resolutions, such as OLDT-resolution, SLG- resolution, and
Tabulated SLS-resolution, are non-linear because they rely on the
solution-lookup mode in formulating tabling. The principal disadvantage of
non-linear resolutions is that they cannot be implemented using a simple
stack-based memory structure like that in Prolog. Moreover, some strictly
sequential operators such as cuts may not be handled as easily as in Prolog.
In this paper, we propose a hybrid method to resolve infinite loops and
redundant computations. We combine the ideas of loop checking and tabling to
establish a linear tabulated resolution called TP-resolution. TP-resolution has
two distinctive features: (1) It makes linear tabulated derivations in the same
way as Prolog except that infinite loops are broken and redundant computations
are reduced. It handles cuts as effectively as Prolog. (2) It is sound and
complete for positive logic programs with the bounded-term-size property. The
underlying algorithm can be implemented by an extension to any existing Prolog
abstract machines such as WAM or ATOAM.Comment: To appear as the first accepted paper in Theory and Practice of Logic
Programming (http://www.cwi.nl/projects/alp/TPLP
Caring or not caring for coworkers? An empirical exploration of the dilemma of care allocation in the workplace
Organization and management researchers praise the value of care in the workplace. However, they overlook the conflict between caring for work and for coworkers, which resonates with the dilemma of care allocation highlighted by ethicists of care. Through an in-depth qualitative study of two organizations, we examine how this dilemma is confronted in everyday organizational life. We draw on the concept of boundary work to explain how employees negotiate the boundary of their caring responsibilities in ways that grants or denies care to coworkers. We argue that the possibility of an ethics of care for coworkers requires boundary work that suspends the separation of personal and professional selves and constitutes the worker as a whole person. We contribute to research on care in organizations by showing how care for coworkers may be enabled or undermined by maintaining or suppressing the care allocation dilemma
Scaling Up Deliberative Democracy as Dispute Resolution in Healthcare Reform: A Work in Progress
Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) denotes the problem of jointly localizing a moving platform and mapping the environment. This work studies the SLAM problem using a combination of inertial sensors, measuring the platform's accelerations and angular velocities, and a monocular camera observing the environment. We formulate the SLAM problem on a nonlinear least squares (NLS) batch form, whose solution provides a smoothed estimate of the motion and map. The NLS problem is highly nonconvex in practice, so a good initial estimate is required. We propose a multi-stage iterative procedure, that utilises the fact that the SLAM problem is linear if the platform's rotations are known. The map is initialised with camera feature detections only, by utilising feature tracking and clustering of feature tracks. In this way, loop closures are automatically detected. The initialization method and subsequent NLS refinement is demonstrated on both simulated and real data
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