SOCIOL 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Corporatism, Sofosbuvir, Outsourcing
1 Dec 2017
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Pressure for tax cuts on rich, fewer services for poor and middle classes. Current tax bills in house and senate. New inequalities: institutional variation and firm earnings polarization in thirteen countries . What is the contribution of between-workplace and within-workplace components. Administrative data that is linked-employer-employee in nature. Unit of analysis are jobs embedded in establishments. In general, marginal jobs were defined as those with earnings less than half of the minimum wage. Declining institutional protection of the low wage workers. Disintegration of vertically integrated firms davis and cobb. Increased profitability of powerful firms, decreased working class employment. Apple dominates mobile phone, music streaming, and half of the smartphone and tablet. Facebook 93% of all social media users spend 31 hours/month. Google dominates web search, on-line advertising and owns android operation system. Microsoft 90% of desktop operating systems (rest is apple) Network power the other half of smartphone and tablet markets.
