This paper evaluates IMF-led neoliberal restructuring in post-crisis Korea. The main conclusions are: the economic rebound in 1999-2000 was both incomplete and unsustainable; restructuring created a ongoing credit crunch that continues to constrain investment spending; Korea may have been pushed onto a long-term low-investment, low-growth trajectory; insecurity and inequality have risen substan...

While restructuring is a matter of great concern to many workers and enterprises and is high on the EU policy agenda, there are few hard facts on the extent of jobs actually lost and gained in this process. This report explains how the employment effects of restructuring should be measured, the extent to which this is feasible in Europe today and concrete proposals on how to improve knowledge a...

Spaces of hope? Fatalism, trade unionism and the uneven geography of capital in whitegoods manufacturing Rob Lambert and Michael Gillan University of Western Australia By engaging with the ‘politics of scale’ labour geography challenges the fatalism and consequent passivity that pervades much of the labour movement. Similarly, new forms of labour internationalism and union organisation offer th...

This paper provides a comprehensive examination of corporate responses to financial distress during an economy-wide crisis, specifically through the restructuring of assets (through asset sales, mergers, or liquidations) and/or liabilities. Using firm-level data from five countries hardest hit by the East Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, this study contrasts the effects that financial and cor...

Open-ended activities are characterized by uncertain duration, unpredictable developments , and interactions with other concurrent activities. Like other database applications, they require consistent concurrent access and fault-tolerance, but their unconventional characteristics are incompatible with the conventional database mechanisms of concurrency and failure atomicity. We present the spli...

Current practice of Web site development does not address explicitly the problems related to multilingual sites. The same information, as well as the same navigation paths, page formatting and organization, are expected to be provided by the site independently from the chosen language. This is typically ensured by adopting personal conventions on the way pages are named and on their location in...

Nuclear regulations are a subset of social regulations (laws to control activities that may negatively impact the environment, health, and safety) that concern control of ionizing radiation from radiation-producing equipment and from radioactive materials. The impressive safety record among nuclear technologies is due, in no small part, to the work of radiation safety professionals and to a pro...

A prevalent trend in modeling human sentence processing has been to account for both initial attachment preferences and reanalysis behaviors with minimal extensions to a presumed set of initial parsing operations. Here, an entirely different formulation of the initial attachment and revision processes is suggested. Rather than assuming that all parsing is (as much as possible) initial attachmen...

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Typical studies of concept learning in adults address the learning of novel concepts, but much of learning involves the updating and restructuring of familiar conceptual domains. Research on conceptual change explores this issue directly but differs greatly from the formal approach of the adult learning studies. This paper bridges these two areas to advance our knowledge of the mechanisms under...