Robert S Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3633370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert S Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert S |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5414-979X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 157 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 154 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 157 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Modern Labor Economics
Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy, now in its fifteenth edition, continues to be the leading text for one-semester courses in labor economics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It offers a thorough overview of the modern theory of labor market behavior and reveals how this theory is used to analyze public policy. Designed for students who may not have extensive backgrounds in economics, the text balances theoretical coverage…
Diversifying the Workforce Through Focused Support of Nursing Students With Socioeconomic Challenges
Background Diversifying the nursing workforce entails concerted efforts to recruit and retain students from under-represented racial and socioeconomic groups who are especially vulnerable to barriers hindering academic success. This article describes faculty strategies for retaining and supporting students toward program completion and first-time National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEXRN) passage at a mission-driven sc…
When leaders are marketers
Warfare and Diplomacy in Pre-Colonial West Africa
Originally published in 1976, this book combines detailed technical studies of the diplomacy of the land and waterborne warfare of pre-colonial West Africa. It draws attention to the connexion between these topics as dual aspects of international relations and refers to those parts of West African indigenous diplomacy, showing how these resembled and diverged from practice elsewhere. The causes and consequences of West African wars are analysed a…
Legacies of Segregation and Disenfranchisement
This article explores how voter ID laws further the dismantling of voting rights and the promises of full political engagement for racial minorities, especially African Americans. The authors highlight the racial politics that inform the emergence of these laws, and the racial intent and impact these laws have in diluting minority voting access and therefore political power. It begins with a short historical overview of voting rights since the er…
Emergency hospital admissions associated with a non-randomised housing intervention meeting national housing quality standards
BACKGROUND: We investigated tenant healthcare utilisation associated with upgrading 8558 council houses to a national quality standard. Homes received multiple internal and external improvements and were analysed using repeated measures of healthcare utilisation. METHODS: The primary outcome was emergency hospital admissions for cardiorespiratory conditions and injuries for residents aged 60 years and over. Secondary outcomes included each of the…
Black Power at Work
The building and construction industry exhibited virulent forms of workplace discrimination and ardent resistance to demands to end such racially motivated practices. Black Power at Work, edited by David Goldberg and Trevor Griffey, offers case studies that highlight those realities during the 1960s and 1970s, while also providing rich grassroots histories of northern labor radicalism against employment injustices. The contributing essays examine…
Freedom Is Not Enough
In the 1950s, the exclusion of women and of black and Latino men from higher-paying jobs was so universal as to seem normal to most Americans. Today, diversity in the workforce is a point of pride. How did such a transformation come about? In this bold and groundbreaking work, Nancy MacLean shows how African-American and later Mexican-American civil rights activists and feminists concluded that freedom alone would not suffice: access to jobs at a…
Housing Stock Transfer
This paper sets out the argument that housing renewal has a major role to play in economic and social regeneration in areas of council owned housing. It considers the role that housing stock transfer, with the shift of ownership from local authorities to Registered Social Landlords (RSLs), might have, not only in generating the investment needed to improve the quality of housing and environments, but also in terms of creating wider regeneration b…
Limits to medicine. Medical nemesis
into the positive attributes of health
A Prelude to the Welfare State
The Development of the Neoclassical Tradition in Labor Economics
This essay on labor economics examines neoclassical theory's rise to ascendancy following the second World War, with a secondary focus on the relative decline but continued influence of institutionalist economic theory. The authors describe the evolution of institutional and neoclassical theory from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, examine some early intellectual debates between the two camps, briefly describe the work of neoclassi…
The Shifting Wind
Journal Article The Shifting Wind: The Supreme Court and Civil Rights from Reconstruction to Brown Get access Howard John R., The Shifting Wind: The Supreme Court and Civil Rights from Reconstruction to Brown. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. $71.50 (hardback). $23.95 (paperback). Robert S. Smith Robert S. Smith Bowling Green State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journa…
Regulatory and Organisational Responses to Restructured Housing Association Finance in England and Wales
Risk was shifted from government to housing associations during the late 1980s producing a very different operating environment for associations based around competition. Critical in this has been an increased emphasis on financial management. The paper explores the impacts of these changes through an examination of the Welsh regulator's (Housing for Wales) responses and through changing management and organisation within associations. The policy…
Contested memory
Curing the Dutch Disease
Introduction and overview: the Dutch disability programme and how it grew Evaluating the 1987 and 1993 social welfare reforms from disappointment to potential success a United States perspective on disability programs a United Kingdom perpective on disability policy a German perspective on disability policy Curing the Dutch disease from a Swedish perspective the futureof disability policy in the Netherlands
Giving credit where credit is due
Labor Economics and Industrial Relations
Pension Funding in the Public Sector
This paper explores the determinants of pension funding in the public sector. We formulate and test several hypotheses about the determinants of public employer pension funding practices, using a new data set describing financial and other characteristics of state, local, and teacher plans. The data show that, on average, public sector pension plans were relatively well-funded during the late 1980s. There were, however, wide variations in funding…
Scene counter scene
La difference d'esprit reflete le profond contraste au sujet de ce qui constitue la verite objective pour Brecht et pour Barth. Tandis que Brecht propose une poesie non-aristotelicienne, Barth ne peut se declarer contre ou avec Calvin. Neanmoins, il est possible d'evaluer l'argument selon lequel il peut y avoir une poesie theologique scientifique, en analysant les paralleles entre Brecht et Barth. Cette approche met non seulement en evidence l'em…
The Role of Performance Indicators in Housing Management
In this paper an evaluation of the housing management performance indicators regime in the United Kingdom is provided. First, the context in which performance measurement in the housing service in the United Kingdom has developed is set and lessons are drawn from the use of statutory indicators following the Local Government and Housing Act 1989. By examining the performance indicator regime in Wales it is suggested that the regime is flawed beca…
New Approaches to Economic and Social Analyses of Discrimination
Preface and Dedication Unemployment: Alternative Explanations and Discriminatory Consequences Why Is the Black Unemployment Rate Always Twice as High as the White Unemployment Rate? by Steven Shulman Efficiency Wage Theory: Critical Reflections on the NeoKeynesian Theory of Unemployment and Discrimination by William A. Darity, Jr. Discrimination and Efficiency Wages: Estimates of the Role of Efficiency Wages in Male/Female Wage Differentials by M…
The Economic Consequences of Immigration
Profit Sharing and Employment Stability
This paper tests the hypothesis that workers whose compensation packages contain a profit-sharing component are less susceptible to layoff in the face of negative shocks to product demand than are workers paid a fixed, time-based wage. The theory is tested on two data sets, one a household survey and the other a survey of small businesses conducted by the authors. The characteristics of profit sharing among small businesses by and large meet the …
Comparable Worth
Citing relevant judicial decisions, the author argues that any application of the comparable worth remedy for gender discrimination is likely to cover only certain groups of workers. Most likely to be covered are women who work for governmental or large private employers in female-dominated jobs, and least likely to be covered are women who work for small private employers. The implementation of comparable worth would cause the wages of noncovere…
Compliance with the Minimum Wage Law
This paper investigates the extent and patterns of compliance with the federal minimum wage. Using a profit-maximizing model of compliance, predictions about compliance with weak or random government enforcement are made. Such enforcement is not random, however, and our measures of compliance suggest that government enforcement, while not inducing anything near complete compliance, does have an impact. Overall compliance in 1973 is estimated to b…
The Development of the Neoclassical Tradition in Labor Economics
This essay on labor economics examines neoclassical theory's rise to ascendancy following the second World War, with a secondary focus on the relative decline but continued influence of institutionalist economic theory. The authors describe the evolution of institutional and neoclassical theory from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, examine some early intellectual debates between the two camps, briefly describe the work of neoclassi…
The Lagos Consulate 1851 - 1861
The Estimated Impact of the Antidiscrimination Program Aimed at Federal Contractors
Examination of the impact of an antidiscrimination program on the relative economic position of minorities and women in the United States. Gender differences in relative employment and wage share; Results and discussion. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)
Giving credit where credit is due
Warfare and Diplomacy in Pre-Colonial West Africa
Covering a period of some 400 to 500 years up to the last decades of the nineteenth century, the author takes a wide range of examples from those societies whose levels of political organisation warrant the term 'states'. The arrangements for the exercise of power within these varied from states where one man or an oligarchy made decisions about war and peace to states where power was diffused between members of the community. North America: Univ…
Legacies of Segregation and Disenfranchisement
This article explores how voter ID laws further the dismantling of voting rights and the promises of full political engagement for racial minorities, especially African Americans. The authors highlight the racial politics that inform the emergence of these laws, and the racial intent and impact these laws have in diluting minority voting access and therefore political power. It begins with a short historical overview of voting rights since the er…
Greasing the Squeaky Wheel
This paper questions the validity of allegations by the General Accounting Office in 1979 that OSHA was then allocating more of its resources to investigating worker complaints than the quality of those complaints warranted. Specifically, the author finds that complaint-initiated inspections and "general schedule" inspections (those made on the basis of targeting criteria developed by OSHA) were similarly productive in uncovering safety violation…
The Role of Performance Indicators in Housing Management
In this paper an evaluation of the housing management performance indicators regime in the United Kingdom is provided. First, the context in which performance measurement in the housing service in the United Kingdom has developed is set and lessons are drawn from the use of statutory indicators following the Local Government and Housing Act 1989. By examining the performance indicator regime in Wales it is suggested that the regime is flawed beca…
Profit Sharing and Employment Stability
This paper tests the hypothesis that workers whose compensation packages contain a profit-sharing component are less susceptible to layoff in the face of negative shocks to product demand than are workers paid a fixed, time-based wage. The theory is tested on two data sets, one a household survey and the other a survey of small businesses conducted by the authors. The characteristics of profit sharing among small businesses by and large meet the …
Indigo Production and Trade in Colonial Guatemala
RHE PROBLEM of an export economy-the dependence of an underdeveloped region upon unstable markets for a staple raw material-is not new.1 While Europe's monetary needs made the precious metals the chief medium of external payments for parts of the Empire, some Spanish colonies lacked significant mineral resources. Such was the case of Guatemala. In the formative years of the captaincy-general cacao beans provided a currency as well as a means of b…
Black Power at Work
The building and construction industry exhibited virulent forms of workplace discrimination and ardent resistance to demands to end such racially motivated practices. Black Power at Work, edited by David Goldberg and Trevor Griffey, offers case studies that highlight those realities during the 1960s and 1970s, while also providing rich grassroots histories of northern labor radicalism against employment injustices. The contributing essays examine…
Chinese in Mexico City in 1635
It may be interesting to learn that even before the end of the Ming dynasty, numbers of Chinese had already arrived in Mexico. On June 22, 1635, the municipal council (cabildo) of Mexico City studied a petition which had been submitted to the viceroy by the Spanish barbers in the capital. The latter protested against the “excesses” and “inconveniences” to the “Republic” resulting from the practises of Chinese barbers. The viceroy passed along the…
Regulatory and Organisational Responses to Restructured Housing Association Finance in England and Wales
Risk was shifted from government to housing associations during the late 1980s producing a very different operating environment for associations based around competition. Critical in this has been an increased emphasis on financial management. The paper explores the impacts of these changes through an examination of the Welsh regulator's (Housing for Wales) responses and through changing management and organisation within associations. The policy…
Contested memory
Comparable Worth
Citing relevant judicial decisions, the author argues that any application of the comparable worth remedy for gender discrimination is likely to cover only certain groups of workers. Most likely to be covered are women who work for governmental or large private employers in female-dominated jobs, and least likely to be covered are women who work for small private employers. The implementation of comparable worth would cause the wages of noncovere…
English Economic Thought in Spain, 1776-1848
Research Article| April 01 1968 English Economic Thought in Spain, 1776-1848 Robert S. Smith Robert S. Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1968) 67 (2): 306–337. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-67-2-306 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert S. Smith; English Economic Thought in Spain, 1776-1848. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 Apr…
Firm Size and Regulatory Compliance Costs
James R. Chelius, Robert S. Smith, Firm Size and Regulatory Compliance Costs: The Case of Workers' Compensation Insurance, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Winter, 1987), pp. 193-206
The Consulado in Santa Fe de Bogota
A Proposal for the Barter and Sale of Spanish America in 1800
A S EARLY AS 1775 Count Aranda perceived that the Lstruggle between England and her colonies could shake the foundations of Spanish rule in America. A few years later he submitted to Charles III a proposal for the drastic reform of colonial government, which he hoped would weaken the independence movement within the colonies and forestall the encroachment of the United States upon Spanish possessions. The possible dismemberment of the empire was …
Barcelona "Bills of Mortality" and Population, 1457-1590
Warfare and Diplomacy in Pre-Colonial West Africa
Originally published in 1976, this book combines detailed technical studies of the diplomacy of the land and waterborne warfare of pre-colonial West Africa. It draws attention to the connexion between these topics as dual aspects of international relations and refers to those parts of West African indigenous diplomacy, showing how these resembled and diverged from practice elsewhere. The causes and consequences of West African wars are analysed a…
Housing Stock Transfer
This paper sets out the argument that housing renewal has a major role to play in economic and social regeneration in areas of council owned housing. It considers the role that housing stock transfer, with the shift of ownership from local authorities to Registered Social Landlords (RSLs), might have, not only in generating the investment needed to improve the quality of housing and environments, but also in terms of creating wider regeneration b…
Financing the Central American Federation, 1821-1838
The Spanish Labyrinth
Reparations and the Bank for International Settlements
Research Article| July 01 1930 Reparations and the Bank for International Settlements R. S. Smith R. S. Smith Duke University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1930) 29 (3): 304–320. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-29-3-304 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation R. S. Smith; Reparations and the Bank for International Settlements. South A…
Recent Criticism of the Consulate of the Sea
The Caracas Company, 1728-1784. A Study in the History of Spanish Monopolistic Trade
Barcelona "Bills of Mortality" and Population, 1457-1590
Derrotero y Viaje a España y las Indias
Chinese in Mexico City in 1635
It may be interesting to learn that even before the end of the Ming dynasty, numbers of Chinese had already arrived in Mexico. On June 22, 1635, the municipal council (cabildo) of Mexico City studied a petition which had been submitted to the viceroy by the Spanish barbers in the capital. The latter protested against the “excesses” and “inconveniences” to the “Republic” resulting from the practises of Chinese barbers. The viceroy passed along the…
El comercio y la navegación entre España y las Indias en época de los HabsburgosLos bucaneros de las Indias occidentales en el siglo xvii
Rodrigo de Albornoz
General Censuses and Vital Statistics in the Americas
Fourteenth-Century Population Records of Catalonia
Universidad Nacional de Cordoba. Archivo General. Catalogo de documentos, 1611-1891
The Spanish Labyrinth
Bibliografía de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público
La población de El Salvador. Estudic acerca de su desenvolvimiento desde la época prehispànica hasta nuestros días
A Proposed Library for the Merchant Guild of Veracruz, 1801
La libertad del comercio en la Nueva España en la segunda década del siglo XIXComercio extranjero por el puerto de San Blas en los años 1812 a 1817
El pensamiento economico latinoamericano
El pensamiento económico latinoamericano
of the principal forts of the city itself.Despite the persistent efforts of the diplomatic corps to bring about a settlement, there were six days of savage fighting, with the city under constant bombarbment, before the dictator finally surrendered.He was held a prisoner in Guatemala City until his death in 1924.Senor Arevalo's lively account of these events, and his penetrating comments, make the latter part of the book an absorbingly interesting…
Wartime Mission in Spain
Retail Stock of A Guatemalan Store, 1780
Los Fúcar
habiliments of an epic; but while the writing is excellent, the material itself, though exciting at times, has too much of sameness and too little of climax to lend much drama to the account.Argonautas de la selva has as its major thesis the justification of Orellana's conduct.Accounts based on the charges made against him by Gonzalo Pizarro brand the failure to return to the main expedition as treachery, carried out against the will of many of h…
El crédito en México
Juan Reìnaldo Carli, economista y americanista del siglo XVIII
Relaciones estadísticas de Nueva España de principios del siglo XIXDocumentos relativos al arrendamiento del impuesto o renta de alcabalas de la Ciudad de México y distritos circundantesMercedes y pen…
La averia en el comercio de Indias
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