"The fully employed high income society": a reply

I am pleased to have the opportunity to reply to John Robinson's charge of "unprofessional wishful thinking" and his confident assertion that the model runs reported in The fully employed high income society: a comment "have shown clearly that full employment by 1995 is next to impossible"

Introduction: the pursuit of full employment; macro economic perspectives

The papers in this symposium are derived from papers presented to the most recent of 2 conferences on labour, employment and work organised by Peter Brosnan and Phillip Morrison of Victoria University. Their very considerable effort and initiative brought together a wide range of persons active in research into aspects of employment and unemployment in New Zealand. At the second conference. in September 1985, papers were presented on topics ranging from analysis to demographic trends, through detailed analysis of employment generation at rhe enterprise level to policy analysis and consideration of the social and personal consequences of unemployment. The conference provided an opportunity for researchers to learn something of what is going on in other disciplines beside their own. In this symposium we are pleased to be able to make 5 of the conference papers available to a wider audience

Quality Indicators in Special Education: A Comparative Study of the Attitudes of Special Educators in Singapore and the United States of America

Produced by The Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i and The School of Social Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas for The Society for Disability Studies

Labour Market Change and the Long-term Sustainability of New Zealand Superannuation

Research on the long-term sustainability of New Zealand Superannuation has identified three main policy options; raising the age of eligibility, lowering pension rates relative to the average age, and the targeting of the entitlement. Our paper examines the potential impact of labour market changes on superannuation, under a range of long-term scenarios. The balance between market and non-market work and leisure is certain to be significantly affected by the demands of population ageing. Female participation rates seem likely to rise as do those of older persons. The long-term historical decline in male participation seems unlikely to continue over the next fifty years. Overall, anticipation in paid work be persons aged 25-70 will tend to increase. However, our scenarios suggest that no prospective pattern of labour market change is likely, of itself, to solve New Zealand's emerging superannuation problem. All three policy options identified in previous research need to be kept under review as possible responses to emergent fiscal pressures

"The fully employed high income society": a reply

I am pleased to have the opportunity to reply to John Robinson's charge of "unprofessional wishful thinking" and his confident assertion that the model runs reported in The fully employed high income society: a comment "have shown clearly that full employment by 1995 is next to impossible"

Love Me All The Time

With Ukulele arrangement. Contains advertisements and/or short musical examples of pieces being sold by publisher.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mmb-vp/7184/thumbnail.jp

An In-Depth Look at 4-H Enrollment and Retention

The membership of 4-H is a highly fluctuating, variable body, with youth coming and going at all ages. A more complete understanding of this fluctuation can be obtained by examining enrollment and retention trends, allowing agents to identify key strategies to increase membership in their own counties. By using the ES 237 data for Colorado from 2002 and 2003, it was possible to recognize patterns that have implications for the ways agents handle recruitment. Increasing retention in 4-H is most closely linked to enrolling youth at an early age and preventing the loss of first year members

Investigating the Components and Assembly of Processing Bodies in Human Cells

Messenger RNA degradation is important for the control of gene expression. The major mRNA decay pathway requires the coordination of proteins involved in deadenylation, decapping, and exonucleolysis to function properly. Interestingly, many of those proteins, as well as translationally repressed mRNAs, localize to discreet cytoplasmic foci called processing bodies (PBs). It remains unclear how PBs form and their functional significance is, as yet, unknown. To better understand how PB assembly may be regulated, I tested whether the cytoskeleton is required for PB dynamics in human cells. I found that the cytoskeleton is likely not required for overall PB assembly, integrity, or disassociation; moreover, disruption of the cytoskeleton does not inhibit mRNA decay efficiency. However, the localization of AU-rich element (ARE)-containing mRNAs in PBs was inhibited upon cytoskeleton disruption, which suggests a possible role for the cytoskeleton in transcript-specific delivery to PBs. In an assay designed to identify novel PB factors, I found two proteins (PRMT5 and MEP50) that are known to be involved in splicing as a part of the methylosome complex, to co-purify with PB proteins. PRMT5 is a methyltransferase that has an affinity for methylating arginine residues within GRG-tripeptide repeats. Interestingly, the PB protein Lsm4 contains a large GRG-repeat domain in its C-terminus. I confirmed that the Lsm4 C-terminus is methylated and wished to determine if this methylation was important for Lsm4 function in PBs and mRNA decay. Unlike yeast Lsm4, I found that the C-terminus of Lsm4 in humans is neither necessary, nor sufficient, to form PBs. Knockdown of Lsm4 revealed it is important for efficient mRNA decay; however, I found that this is not dependent on the GRG-rich c-terminal domain. Taken together, these studies add to our understanding of PBs assembly and mRNA decay in human cells