Stephen R Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 4506933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen R Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen R |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0491-4881 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Nature markets and English farmer groups
Farmers and other land-managers are increasingly expected to engage in ‘nature markets’, whereby private sector actors pay for new environment-related goals from land management, such as payments for carbon sequestration or biodiversity credits. The UK is pioneering nature markets, but one of the perceived challenges for scaling these markets is the need for collaboration by multiple land-managers. In this study we explore if and how pre-existing…
Resilience and transformation
How to ensure resilience of food systems is a key concern in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Notably, there is a renewed interest in the role of local food systems from policy, academic, and third-sector actors, who see those systems as a source of "bounce-back" resilience, supporting existing structures, but also as sources of "bounce-forward" transformative resilience. Both perspectives move debates around local food systems beyond the domin…
Abstracts from the Spectra 2018 Symposium Part 5
Much of the work covered under the rubric of art and science is computer-generated or computer-driven in some way, in the sense that the control of processes or events represented in art/science works is driven by some computer process.Given the ubiquity of the computer in art/science work, this paper examines the initial development of data visualization (i.e. generating images from scientific data) in Australia, so that these images could furth…
Waiting for Recovery
The Canadian labour market is currently emerging from a holding pattern with unusually high numbers of people in temporary (or "recall") unemployment, people who are "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or people who are not in the labour force while waiting to be recalled. Two encouraging signs are evident. New postings of vacancies have recovered from 50 percent to about 80 percent of their pre-crisis level. Also, data sugge…
Abstracts from the Spectra 2018 Symposium
September 16 2020 Abstracts from the Spectra 2018 Symposium: Contexts Stephen Jones, Stephen Jones Unit 70 / 45-51 Huntley St, Alexandria, NSW, 2015. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Trish Adams, Trish Adams 32 Campbell St, Wollongong, New South Wales, 2500, Australia. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Mirella Dottori 000…
If You Can Make it Here, You Can Make it Anywhere’
Jones S. ‘If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere’: performance management and PlaNYC climate change initiatives, Regional Studies. This paper investigates the contribution of performance management in implementing climate initiatives introduced by the Bloomberg administration in New York City. PlaNYC has been praised as one of the most significant climate change initiatives by a city government as it included measurement protocols and …
Climate Change Policies of City Governments in Federal Systems
Jones S. Climate change policies of city governments in federal systems: an analysis of Vancouver, Melbourne and New York City, Regional Studies. Canada, Australia and the United States are among the world's heaviest emitters per capita of greenhouse gases. City governments within these countries have been implementing policies to help reduce emissions and control the impacts of climate change. Vancouver, Melbourne and New York City governments h…
A Systems Basis for New Media Pedagogy
The relations that operate dynamically within artmaking systems need to be elucidated when teaching new media either as practice or as history. Toward that end the author proposes an extended conceptual structure of cybernetics that includes the motivations within a system and its coherence
Older Workers in the New Economy
I consider the recommendations of the Expert Panel on Older Workers (2008) with regard to Wage Insurance (WI) and Employment Insurance (EI). I argue that there is scope for a limited demonstration project of WI to further assess feasibility and effectiveness, but note that a number of design issues remain open. I assess the fundamental review of EI proposed in the Panel report, concluding that many of the proposals amount to a form of experience …
Unemployment and Nonemployment
The determination of how to distinguish between unemployment and nonparticipation is important and controversial. The conventional approach employs a priori reasoning together with self-reported current behavior. This paper employs an evidence-based classification of labor force status using information about the consequences of the behavior of the nonemployed. We find that marginal attachment—defined as desiring work, although not searching—is a…
Synthetics
This paper takes a brief look at the early years of computer-graphic and video-synthesizer–driven image production in Australia. It begins with the first (known) Australian data visualization, in 1957, and proceeds through the compositing of computer graphics and video effects in the music videos of the late 1980s. The author surveys the types of work produced by workers on the computer graphics and video synthesis systems of the early period and…
Towards a Philosophy of Virtual Reality
This paper reviews the first "Consciousness Reframed" conference. A number of artists' works in media such as virtual reality and interactive installations are discussed, and various issues relating to "technoetic" artworks are raised. These issues include questions such as the potentially dehumanizing nature of technology, the transcendent states claimed for cyberspace, the nature of immersion, and aspects of the problem of consciousness. The au…
Gross Flows of Labour in Canada and the United States
Stephen R. G. Jones, W. Craig Riddell, Gross Flows of Labour in Canada and the United States, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 24, Supplement 1: CERF/CSLR Conference on the Canada-US Unemployment Rate Gap / FCSE/CENV Conférence sur l'écart entre les taux de chômage au Canada et aux États-Unis (Feb., 1998), pp. S103-S120
The Persistence of Unemployment
A Dynamic Model of Union Membership and Employment
This paper incorporates the ideas that a union maximizes an intertemporal objective function, that it recognizes some link between present wage and employment levels and future membership, and that it has an interest in the level of membership attained. The authors model membership decisions with stochastic demand and a differential layoff rate for union and nonunion workers. Membership dynamics are behavioral in that membership increases when th…
Cyclical and Seasonal Properties of Canadian Gross Flows of Labour
Although net monthly changes in unemployment and employment are relatively small, the level of gross flows among the three conventional labor force states, Employment, Unemployment, and Not-in-the-Labor-Force, tends to be very large. This paper reviews Canadian evidence on monthly gross flows of labor for the period since 1976. It analyzes both seasonal and cyclical components of these flows and presents comparison with international evidence. It…
Was There a Hawthorne Effect
The "Hawthorne effect" has been an enduring legacy of the celebrated studies of workplace behavior conducted in the 1920s and 1930s at Western Electric's Hawthorne Plant. This article examines the empirical evidence for the existence of Hawthorne effects using the original data from the Hawthorne Relay Assembly Tes Room. Allowing for a variety of other factors, the author assesses whether experimental changes, variously defined, had a common effe…
Worker Interdependence and Output
Recent work has called into question the interpretation of the evidence from the classic Hawthorne studies, arguing that external factors suffice to explain the variation in workers' output found at the Hawthorne plant. In contrast, this paper demonstrates that, allowing for a wide range of other factors mediated by the social interactions in the working group, workers' productivity levels in the Hawthorne plant were indeed interdependent. Using …
Reservation Wages and the Cost of Unemployment
This paper studies direct evidence on reservation wages reported in Great Britain in 1982 to assess (1) whether such asking prices are "high" and (2) whether variations in these reservation wages are related to differences in measures of the subjective and objective costs of unemployment. A majority overall (and for various subgroups) reports reservation wages no higher than own past wages adjusted for earnings growth, but there is nonetheless co…
Demand Disturbances and Aggregate Fluctuations
Journal Article Demand Disturbances and Aggregate Fluctuations: The Implications of Near Rationality Get access Stephen R. G. Jones, Stephen R. G. Jones University of British Columbia Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James H. Stock James H. Stock University of British Columbia Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal,…
Report of the Committee on the Prison Disciplinary System
Unequal Treatment
The Economics of Conformism
T he P olice and C riminal E vidence A ct 1984
RCO Examinations
Was There a Hawthorne Effect
The "Hawthorne effect" has been an enduring legacy of the celebrated studies of workplace behavior conducted in the 1920s and 1930s at Western Electric's Hawthorne Plant. This article examines the empirical evidence for the existence of Hawthorne effects using the original data from the Hawthorne Relay Assembly Tes Room. Allowing for a variety of other factors, the author assesses whether experimental changes, variously defined, had a common effe…
Worker Interdependence and Output
Recent work has called into question the interpretation of the evidence from the classic Hawthorne studies, arguing that external factors suffice to explain the variation in workers' output found at the Hawthorne plant. In contrast, this paper demonstrates that, allowing for a wide range of other factors mediated by the social interactions in the working group, workers' productivity levels in the Hawthorne plant were indeed interdependent. Using …
Waiting for Recovery
The Canadian labour market is currently emerging from a holding pattern with unusually high numbers of people in temporary (or "recall") unemployment, people who are "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or people who are not in the labour force while waiting to be recalled. Two encouraging signs are evident. New postings of vacancies have recovered from 50 percent to about 80 percent of their pre-crisis level. Also, data sugge…
Resilience and transformation
How to ensure resilience of food systems is a key concern in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Notably, there is a renewed interest in the role of local food systems from policy, academic, and third-sector actors, who see those systems as a source of "bounce-back" resilience, supporting existing structures, but also as sources of "bounce-forward" transformative resilience. Both perspectives move debates around local food systems beyond the domin…
Climate Change Policies of City Governments in Federal Systems
Jones S. Climate change policies of city governments in federal systems: an analysis of Vancouver, Melbourne and New York City, Regional Studies. Canada, Australia and the United States are among the world's heaviest emitters per capita of greenhouse gases. City governments within these countries have been implementing policies to help reduce emissions and control the impacts of climate change. Vancouver, Melbourne and New York City governments h…
Demand Disturbances and Aggregate Fluctuations
Journal Article Demand Disturbances and Aggregate Fluctuations: The Implications of Near Rationality Get access Stephen R. G. Jones, Stephen R. G. Jones University of British Columbia Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James H. Stock James H. Stock University of British Columbia Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal,…
If You Can Make it Here, You Can Make it Anywhere’
Jones S. ‘If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere’: performance management and PlaNYC climate change initiatives, Regional Studies. This paper investigates the contribution of performance management in implementing climate initiatives introduced by the Bloomberg administration in New York City. PlaNYC has been praised as one of the most significant climate change initiatives by a city government as it included measurement protocols and …
Older Workers in the New Economy
I consider the recommendations of the Expert Panel on Older Workers (2008) with regard to Wage Insurance (WI) and Employment Insurance (EI). I argue that there is scope for a limited demonstration project of WI to further assess feasibility and effectiveness, but note that a number of design issues remain open. I assess the fundamental review of EI proposed in the Panel report, concluding that many of the proposals amount to a form of experience …
Reservation Wages and the Cost of Unemployment
This paper studies direct evidence on reservation wages reported in Great Britain in 1982 to assess (1) whether such asking prices are "high" and (2) whether variations in these reservation wages are related to differences in measures of the subjective and objective costs of unemployment. A majority overall (and for various subgroups) reports reservation wages no higher than own past wages adjusted for earnings growth, but there is nonetheless co…
T he P olice and C riminal E vidence A ct 1984
Towards a Philosophy of Virtual Reality
This paper reviews the first "Consciousness Reframed" conference. A number of artists' works in media such as virtual reality and interactive installations are discussed, and various issues relating to "technoetic" artworks are raised. These issues include questions such as the potentially dehumanizing nature of technology, the transcendent states claimed for cyberspace, the nature of immersion, and aspects of the problem of consciousness. The au…
Gross Flows of Labour in Canada and the United States
Stephen R. G. Jones, W. Craig Riddell, Gross Flows of Labour in Canada and the United States, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 24, Supplement 1: CERF/CSLR Conference on the Canada-US Unemployment Rate Gap / FCSE/CENV Conférence sur l'écart entre les taux de chômage au Canada et aux États-Unis (Feb., 1998), pp. S103-S120
Cyclical and Seasonal Properties of Canadian Gross Flows of Labour
Although net monthly changes in unemployment and employment are relatively small, the level of gross flows among the three conventional labor force states, Employment, Unemployment, and Not-in-the-Labor-Force, tends to be very large. This paper reviews Canadian evidence on monthly gross flows of labor for the period since 1976. It analyzes both seasonal and cyclical components of these flows and presents comparison with international evidence. It…
RCO Examinations
Unequal Treatment
The Economics of Conformism
T he P olice and C riminal E vidence A ct 1984
Report of the Committee on the Prison Disciplinary System
Demand Disturbances and Aggregate Fluctuations
Journal Article Demand Disturbances and Aggregate Fluctuations: The Implications of Near Rationality Get access Stephen R. G. Jones, Stephen R. G. Jones University of British Columbia Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James H. Stock James H. Stock University of British Columbia Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal,…
Reservation Wages and the Cost of Unemployment
This paper studies direct evidence on reservation wages reported in Great Britain in 1982 to assess (1) whether such asking prices are "high" and (2) whether variations in these reservation wages are related to differences in measures of the subjective and objective costs of unemployment. A majority overall (and for various subgroups) reports reservation wages no higher than own past wages adjusted for earnings growth, but there is nonetheless co…
Worker Interdependence and Output
Recent work has called into question the interpretation of the evidence from the classic Hawthorne studies, arguing that external factors suffice to explain the variation in workers' output found at the Hawthorne plant. In contrast, this paper demonstrates that, allowing for a wide range of other factors mediated by the social interactions in the working group, workers' productivity levels in the Hawthorne plant were indeed interdependent. Using …
Was There a Hawthorne Effect
The "Hawthorne effect" has been an enduring legacy of the celebrated studies of workplace behavior conducted in the 1920s and 1930s at Western Electric's Hawthorne Plant. This article examines the empirical evidence for the existence of Hawthorne effects using the original data from the Hawthorne Relay Assembly Tes Room. Allowing for a variety of other factors, the author assesses whether experimental changes, variously defined, had a common effe…
Cyclical and Seasonal Properties of Canadian Gross Flows of Labour
Although net monthly changes in unemployment and employment are relatively small, the level of gross flows among the three conventional labor force states, Employment, Unemployment, and Not-in-the-Labor-Force, tends to be very large. This paper reviews Canadian evidence on monthly gross flows of labor for the period since 1976. It analyzes both seasonal and cyclical components of these flows and presents comparison with international evidence. It…
A Dynamic Model of Union Membership and Employment
This paper incorporates the ideas that a union maximizes an intertemporal objective function, that it recognizes some link between present wage and employment levels and future membership, and that it has an interest in the level of membership attained. The authors model membership decisions with stochastic demand and a differential layoff rate for union and nonunion workers. Membership dynamics are behavioral in that membership increases when th…
The Persistence of Unemployment
Gross Flows of Labour in Canada and the United States
Stephen R. G. Jones, W. Craig Riddell, Gross Flows of Labour in Canada and the United States, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 24, Supplement 1: CERF/CSLR Conference on the Canada-US Unemployment Rate Gap / FCSE/CENV Conférence sur l'écart entre les taux de chômage au Canada et aux États-Unis (Feb., 1998), pp. S103-S120
Towards a Philosophy of Virtual Reality
This paper reviews the first "Consciousness Reframed" conference. A number of artists' works in media such as virtual reality and interactive installations are discussed, and various issues relating to "technoetic" artworks are raised. These issues include questions such as the potentially dehumanizing nature of technology, the transcendent states claimed for cyberspace, the nature of immersion, and aspects of the problem of consciousness. The au…
Synthetics
This paper takes a brief look at the early years of computer-graphic and video-synthesizer–driven image production in Australia. It begins with the first (known) Australian data visualization, in 1957, and proceeds through the compositing of computer graphics and video effects in the music videos of the late 1980s. The author surveys the types of work produced by workers on the computer graphics and video synthesis systems of the early period and…
Unemployment and Nonemployment
The determination of how to distinguish between unemployment and nonparticipation is important and controversial. The conventional approach employs a priori reasoning together with self-reported current behavior. This paper employs an evidence-based classification of labor force status using information about the consequences of the behavior of the nonemployed. We find that marginal attachment—defined as desiring work, although not searching—is a…
Older Workers in the New Economy
I consider the recommendations of the Expert Panel on Older Workers (2008) with regard to Wage Insurance (WI) and Employment Insurance (EI). I argue that there is scope for a limited demonstration project of WI to further assess feasibility and effectiveness, but note that a number of design issues remain open. I assess the fundamental review of EI proposed in the Panel report, concluding that many of the proposals amount to a form of experience …
Climate Change Policies of City Governments in Federal Systems
Jones S. Climate change policies of city governments in federal systems: an analysis of Vancouver, Melbourne and New York City, Regional Studies. Canada, Australia and the United States are among the world's heaviest emitters per capita of greenhouse gases. City governments within these countries have been implementing policies to help reduce emissions and control the impacts of climate change. Vancouver, Melbourne and New York City governments h…
A Systems Basis for New Media Pedagogy
The relations that operate dynamically within artmaking systems need to be elucidated when teaching new media either as practice or as history. Toward that end the author proposes an extended conceptual structure of cybernetics that includes the motivations within a system and its coherence
If You Can Make it Here, You Can Make it Anywhere’
Jones S. ‘If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere’: performance management and PlaNYC climate change initiatives, Regional Studies. This paper investigates the contribution of performance management in implementing climate initiatives introduced by the Bloomberg administration in New York City. PlaNYC has been praised as one of the most significant climate change initiatives by a city government as it included measurement protocols and …
Waiting for Recovery
The Canadian labour market is currently emerging from a holding pattern with unusually high numbers of people in temporary (or "recall") unemployment, people who are "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or people who are not in the labour force while waiting to be recalled. Two encouraging signs are evident. New postings of vacancies have recovered from 50 percent to about 80 percent of their pre-crisis level. Also, data sugge…
Abstracts from the Spectra 2018 Symposium
September 16 2020 Abstracts from the Spectra 2018 Symposium: Contexts Stephen Jones, Stephen Jones Unit 70 / 45-51 Huntley St, Alexandria, NSW, 2015. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Trish Adams, Trish Adams 32 Campbell St, Wollongong, New South Wales, 2500, Australia. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Mirella Dottori 000…
Abstracts from the Spectra 2018 Symposium Part 5
Much of the work covered under the rubric of art and science is computer-generated or computer-driven in some way, in the sense that the control of processes or events represented in art/science works is driven by some computer process.Given the ubiquity of the computer in art/science work, this paper examines the initial development of data visualization (i.e. generating images from scientific data) in Australia, so that these images could furth…
Resilience and transformation
How to ensure resilience of food systems is a key concern in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Notably, there is a renewed interest in the role of local food systems from policy, academic, and third-sector actors, who see those systems as a source of "bounce-back" resilience, supporting existing structures, but also as sources of "bounce-forward" transformative resilience. Both perspectives move debates around local food systems beyond the domin…
Nature markets and English farmer groups
Farmers and other land-managers are increasingly expected to engage in ‘nature markets’, whereby private sector actors pay for new environment-related goals from land management, such as payments for carbon sequestration or biodiversity credits. The UK is pioneering nature markets, but one of the perceived challenges for scaling these markets is the need for collaboration by multiple land-managers. In this study we explore if and how pre-existing…
Economics (15 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Labour economics (8 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Unemployment (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works)