Challenging the orthodoxy: union learning representatives as organic intellectuals

Challenging the orthodoxy: union learning representatives as organic intellectuals

Are Union Representatives Badly Paid? Evidence From France

In this paper, I study the wage differential between firms’ union representatives and their coworkers using a linked employer-employee dataset. On the employee side of the data, the surveyed workers are asked if they are unionized but we do not know which unionized workers are union representatives. On the employer side of the data, I have access to the number of union representatives and union...

Diaspora , Intellectuals , and the State

NO AREA OF PUBLIC CONSCIENCE ILLUST"TES THE ANXIOUS MEETING of state policy and cultural mythology more than illegal immigration. As once-con#dent national polities in Europe and the United States su$er a series of economic shocks, a backlash has gathered momentum, targeting the imported labor that in many ways symbolizes the so% core of the old regimes’ economic foundations. A variety of extre...

Noyola's Critique of Orthodoxy

This is the English version of " Juan F. Noyola Vázquez : regreso al solar de la economía política clásica " in Carlos Mallorquín and R. Torres, eds. El Institucionalismo norteamericano y el estructuralismo Latinoamericano, Discursos compatibles? (Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, forthcoming 2004).

Adaptive Clustering: Better Representatives with Reinforcement Learning

Adaptive clustering uses reinforcement learning to learn the reward values of successive data clusterings. Adaptive clustering applies when external feedback exists for a clustering task. It supports the reuse of clusterings by memorizing what worked well in a previous context. It explores multiple paths in a reinforcement learning environment when the goal is to find better cluster representat...