Job quality in Europe

Promoting job quality and gender equality are objectives of the European Employment Strategy (EES) in spite of a downgrading of the attention given to both in the revised employment guidelines and the re-launch of the Lisbon Process. However, advances on both of these objectives may be important complements to the employment rate targets of the EES, as access to good quality jobs for both sexes is likely to help sustain higher employment rates. While the European Commission has a broad view of the concept of job quality in practice, it relies on a selection of labour market type indicators that say little about the quality of the actual jobs people do. Using data from the 2005 European Working Conditions survey, we analyse job quality along three dimensions: job content, autonomy and working conditions. We conclude that gender and occupational status, along with other job characteristics such as working time and sector, have more influence on an individual’s job quality than the country or ‘national model’ they are situated in. Our results also demonstrate the value of developing indicators of job quality that are both gender sensitive and derived at the level of the job rather than the labour market in order to advance EU policy and academic debate on this topic

My Relative Helped Found JSU: A Biographical Article on Wilson Parks Howell

This biographical article is the work for Mark Fagan, Professor Emeritus in the university\u27s Department of Sociology and Social Work. It offers a brief summary of the life of Wilson Parks Howell, a relative of Fagan\u27s and a founding member of the Board of Directors of the State Normal School at Jacksonville, which would later become JSU. Fagan has also published a book-length biography of Howell: A Biography of Captain Wilson Parks Howell (1832-1912).https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_unihist_misc/1020/thumbnail.jp

A General Formulation for Least-Squares Problems

Abstract — We show in this paper that many different least-squares problems which have applications in signal processing may be seen as special cases of a more general vector space minimization problem called the Minimum Norm problem. We show that special cases of the Minimum Norm problem include: least squares fitting of a finite set of points to a linear equation and to a quadratic equation; the infinite length MMSE-optimum linear equalizer; the finite length MMSE-optimum linear equalizer; the steepest descent algorithm and the more practical LMS algorithm for iterative estimation of the finite-length MMSE-optimum linear equalizer for an unknown channel; and the finite-length least-squares-optimum linear equalizer with a forgetting factor. These examples are not exhaustive but are chosen to illustrate the scope of this framework

Foreign direct investment and U.S. national security: CFIUS under the Obama Administration

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States review process slowed during the inaugural year of the Obama Administration. The authors examine the origins of this shift and suggest actions that parties can take to facilitate the process

Foreign direct investment and U.S. national security: CFIUS under the Obama Administration

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States review process slowed during the inaugural year of the Obama Administration. The authors examine the origins of this shift and suggest actions that parties can take to facilitate the process

外国投资与美国国家安全：奥巴马政府下的CFIUS

美国对外投资部门的审批速度，在奥巴马政府就职年中放缓。作者研究了这种转变的原因并建议各方能够采取行动来加速这一进程

经修订的有关外国在美国直接投资的国家安全审查程序

2008年12月22日，规定美国政府对外国并购美国企业进行国家安全审查程序的新规则生效。这是修改和加强美国外国投资委员会（CFIUS） 审查的漫长努力的最后一步

The Revised National Security Review Process for FDI in the US

This perspective explains the new regulations governing the US government's national security review process for foreign mergers and acquisitions of US businesses which became effective December 22, 2008

Upper-Level Courses: Three Exemplars

This Article presents three exemplars of upper-level law school classes, and is divided into three parts. Part I discusses Securitization and Asset-Backed Securities ; Part II discusses Using Transactions to Teach Secured Transactions ; and Part III discusses Teaching Deals Through a Focus on the Entertainment Industry