Corporate Welfare Research Articles

Public Communication and Power: Talking Capitalism, Theory and Critique with John McMurtry

This interview with globally distinguished Canadian philosopher and author, John McMurtry, presents dialogue discussing capitalism, asymmetrical power relations, life capital, social theory, common life interest, life value, global problems, market theology, media, values of the market and free market ideology today in relation to public education, academia, intellectual fads and the broader intellectual culture in relation to enabling public understanding of meaning-making and power, totalising market culture, climate, dispossession, health, influence, energy, labour, income, slavery, corporate welfare, neo-liberalism, the global ecosystem, and inequalities of class and power.

A Study on the Data Management of Social Welfare Corporations and Related Legislative Issues

A Study on the Data Management of Social Welfare Corporations and Related Legislative Issues

From Employment Security to Managerial Precarity: Japan's Changing Welfare-Work Nexus and its Impacts on Mid-career Workers

In the postwar period, Japanese workers came to symbolize the economic and cultural prosperity of Japan. In return for their hard work, they were rewarded with life-time employment and various fringe benefits. This postwar social contract of "corporate welfarism" minimized the social risks and personal career uncertainties of a fluid labour market. However, nearly 30 years of economic recession and neo-liberal reforms have undermined the postwar model of corporate welfarism. Structural and management reforms have been invoked to reengineer Japan's corporate practices and to "flexibilize" the workforce, thereby "freeing" employees while offloading social risks of economic uncertainties to individual workers. As a result, these Japanese workers are caught between the slippage of the older corporate ideology of corporate welfarism premised on long-term employment, and the rise of the new global ideology of neo-liberalism premised on labour mobility, in the process exposing them to new social risks and conditions of uncertainty.<br/> By focusing on mid-career and experienced workers whose expectations of long-term employment were directly affected by restructuring, this article sheds light on the various forms of "precarious employment mechanisms" that have been used to cut personnel costs while avoiding outright dismissal. Drawing from different cases of informants who have been subjected to various forms of restructuring, this article highlights the decoupling of Japan's welfare and employment systems and examines the mechanisms and experiences of "in-house unemployment" for employees in an increasingly hollowed-out corporate welfare society.

사회복지사의 기업복지 유형이 삶의 질과의 관계에서 직무몰입의 조절효과

[연구목적] 본 연구는 사회복지시설에 종사하는 사회복지사의 직무몰입과 삶의 질의 향상을 위한 선택적 복지제도의 정착에 대한 기초자료를 제공하여 사회복지국가 발전에 기여하는데 그 목적이 있다.<BR>[연구방법] 본 연구의 자료 수집은 대구 · 경북지역 사회복지사를 대상으로 총 300부 설문지를 배분하여 이 중 298부를 분석 자료로 활용되었다. 실증분석을 위해 요인분석, 신뢰도분석, 분산분석, t－test, ANOVA분석, SAS 등을 이용하였다.<BR>[연구결과] 첫째, 기업복지유형에 따른 선택적 복지제도가 직무몰입에 미치는 영향을 검증한 결과, 유의한 차이가 없어서 기각되었다. 둘째, 기업복지유형과 사회복지사의 삶의 질과의 차이 검증 결과, 통계적으로 유의미한 차이가 없는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 기업복지의 유형과 삶의 질과의 관계에서 사회복지사의 직무몰입의 조절효과를 검증한 결과, 통계적으로 유의한 조절효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다.<BR>[연구의 시사점] 본 연구는 사회복지사의 기업복지유형에 따른 선택적 복지제도는 삶의 질과의 관계에서 직무몰입이 조절효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 사회복지시설에서 선택적 복지제도 정착에 필요한 직무교육프로그램을 개발하고 예산편성에 반영하여 사회복지서비스를 향상시켜야 할 것이다.

With Amazon HQ2, the Losers Are the Winners: Why Economic Development Subsidies Hurt More than They Help

On September 7, 2017, Amazon, Inc., announced that it would open a second headquarters by building “HQ2,” a new office equal in size to its Seattle campus, that would involve $5 billion in local business investments over 15–17 years and would eventually employ 50,000 workers with an average compensation more than $100,000. Amazon requested that interested cities submit proposals making the case for why their community would be the best fit for this massive new endeavor, including information on the public subsidies the city and state governments would offer to sweeten the deal. Amazon’s six-week deadline created a mad scramble among the 238 North American cities that eventually submitted bids, each attempting to illustrate why it in particular would be the best location to host Amazon’s new headquarters. Despite arguments from economic development officials justifying such subsidies, both economic theory and experience suggest that cities and states are throwing their money away when they court Amazon’s favor through subsidies. Even subsidies worth billions of dollars are unlikely to sway Amazon’s decision. Worse, these kinds of targeted economic development incentives fail to produce economic growth. In this paper, we examine the publicly known subsidies offered to Amazon as enticements to locate its second headquarters. We show that these subsidies are unlikely to alter the location decision of the company or lead to economic growth for the communities that offer them. We illustrate the tradeoffs that these subsidies would require in terms of forgone tax cuts and alternative uses of these funds for public services, such as safety and education. Lastly, we offer examples of institutional reforms — constitutional gift clauses, direct democracy, and interstate compacts — that could reduce the number of corporate subsidies in the future.

Acquiescent market citizens? Age and redistributive policy attitudes in Australia

ABSTRACT As in other advanced industrial democracies, tax and welfare policies in Australia over the last few decades have tended to preserve benefits for some groups of citizens while the safety net for others is weakened. Young people, including children, are among those bearing increased social risks which tend to be exacerbated rather than ameliorated by redistributive policies. There is little evidence of discontent about the overall redistributive policy context, suggesting it broadly aligns with public opinion. The research described in this paper set out to explore the factors underpinning the attitudes of young adult and senior Australians towards redistributive policy, whether there were differences between the two age groups, and if there was any support for policy reform. The results suggest that the young participants’ habituation to neo-liberal policy settings, particularly their adherence to individualistic norms, made them less likely than the seniors to express negative attitudes towards existing policy settings or to advocate reform.

Causal-Comparative Macroeconomic Behavioral Study: International Corporate Financial Transfer Pricing in the United States

This research paper summarizes the ideas of maximization of corporate welfare and basic firm theory, transfer prices among corporate subsidiaries have been found to complicate performance evaluations of subsidiaries and the parent company. The research problem addressed the lack of understanding of transfer price policy and its application to impact firm profits within three specific measures: investor return, earnings per share, and effective tax rate. The main purpose of this study was to ascertain an empirical relationship between transfer pricing policies and these financial performance measures within a study of two multinational firms. The research paper presents an empirical result indicated statistically significant differences between the measures for each firm and allowed further comparative analysis based on other collected data. Overall, results indicated each measure of performance affected transfer pricing tax liabilities, and transfer pricing may be a vehicle to improve company profitability. The results of this study may contribute to positive social change by bringing a focus to efficiency in transfer pricing, which could yield positive impacts on the economy through the reduction of international transaction costs stemming from the minimization of tariffs, income tax liabilities at home and abroad, foreign exchange risk and conflicts with foreign governments’ policies. Positive social change may also be affected by providing investors a new perspective on corporate financial data based on transfer price policies and corporate performance. Keywords: Finance, Transfer Pricing, Macroeconomy, Corporate Performance, Effective Tax Rate, Earnings Per Share, Investor Return.

Book Review: Incentives to Pander: How Politicians Use Corporate Welfare for Political Gain

Book Review: Incentives to Pander: How Politicians Use Corporate Welfare for Political Gain

Privileged Slaves: The Effects of Corporate Welfare on Work-Life Balance

Privileged Slaves: The Effects of Corporate Welfare on Work-Life Balance

Comparison of Decision-Making Analysis of Corporate Welfare System Implementation in Taiwan, Japan and Korea

The promotion of corporate welfare system aims to retain outstanding talents. Enterprises have launched various favorable welfare policies to retain and recruit excellent talents. How to make employees feel happy and increase their willingness to stay is also an important corporate welfare decision. This study uses integrated inductive method to explore the decision-making of Taiwan, Japan and Korea in the implementation of corporate welfare system. It is found that in terms of the statutory welfare, Taiwan has established labor insurance and employment insurance, while Japan has formulated employment insurance and children education subsidies and Korea has developed medical insurance and pension system. Regarding independent corporate welfare, Taiwan, Japan and Korea have formulated housing subsidies, special holidays, wedding welfare, funeral welfare and festival welfare. In job-related welfare, different from Taiwan and Korea, Japan has provided qualification exam subsidies and lounges. The corporate welfare survey results of Japan and the application results of customer-oriented corporate welfare information system website in Korea may serve as a reference for the decision-making on corporate welfare system by the Ministry of Labor of Taiwan.

Empirical Study On Challenges Of Dalit Households Towards Their Economic Development

The main aim of the present study is to examine the problems among dalit families. In this study convenience sampling designs are selected. Convenience sampling is obtained by selecting convenient population being investigated which is selected neither by probability nor by judgment but by convenience. In the present study a sample size of 120 Dalit families. For this purpose statistical tools like, mean, percentage, correlation coefficient have been used. It is observed in the study that, seventy years after independence, dalits are suffering from landlessness, unemployment, Nutrition, lack of communication, therefore, in this regard governments and other welfare corporations has to make serious efforts for upliftment of dalits economically

Empirical Study On Challenges Of Dalit Households Towards Their Economic Development

The main aim of the present study is to examine the problems among dalit families. In this study convenience sampling designs are selected. Convenience sampling is obtained by selecting convenient population being investigated which is selected neither by probability nor by judgment but by convenience. In the present study a sample size of 120 Dalit families. For this purpose statistical tools like, mean, percentage, correlation coefficient have been used. It is observed in the study that, seventy years after independence, dalits are suffering from landlessness, unemployment, Nutrition, lack of communication, therefore, in this regard governments and other welfare corporations has to make serious efforts for upliftment of dalits economically

Empirical Study On Challenges Of Dalit Households Towards Their Economic Development

The main aim of the present study is to examine the problems among dalit families. In this study convenience sampling designs are selected. Convenience sampling is obtained by selecting convenient population being investigated which is selected neither by probability nor by judgment but by convenience. In the present study a sample size of 120 Dalit families. For this purpose statistical tools like, mean, percentage, correlation coefficient have been used. It is observed in the study that, seventy years after independence, dalits are suffering from landlessness, unemployment, Nutrition, lack of communication, therefore, in this regard governments and other welfare corporations has to make serious efforts for upliftment of dalits economically

Neoliberalism at work: Corporate reforms, subjectivity, and post-Toyotist affect in Japan

This article analyzes how the Japanese state and corporations promoted neoliberal restructuring and how employees responded to and reflected upon such changes. I show how neoliberal reforms have aimed to produce greater flexibility for corporations and promote a specific mode of control—“self-management”—among employees. However, rather than rationalizing and legitimizing risk and becoming self-regulating “enterprising selves,” many employees displayed a reflexive and reactive subjectivity that eschewed such neoliberal values. The reaction of many individuals to reforms in Japan can best be understood as “silent resistance” through a combination of discrete competition, turning inward, and stronger desires for stability and security. Economic restructuring thus produced a new kind of “alienation” characterized by narrowing corporate welfare and the breakdown of corporate community. At the same time, employees’ critical reflections reveal a post-Toyotist affect marked by retrenched desires for security and control under the changing national and global economy. Rather than a new, unprecedented subjectivation, the Japanese case of risk-aversive reflexive reaction reveals how existing cultural complexes produce different forms of subjectivity in response to reforms. Further, this nuances our understandings of how the kinds of subjectivities that emerge via the diverse processes of neoliberalization are always contingent upon the multiscalar historical and cultural contexts of work, responsibility, and risk.

Impact of Corporate Subsidies on Borrowing Costs of Local Governments: Evidence From Municipal Bonds

Impact of Corporate Subsidies on Borrowing Costs of Local Governments: Evidence From Municipal Bonds

Challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Social Welfare in Korea : An Exploratory Study on the Direction of Social Welfare in the Future

Challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Social Welfare in Korea : An Exploratory Study on the Direction of Social Welfare in the Future

Requiem for a Paradox: The Dubious Rise and Inevitable Fall of Hipster Antitrust

For antitrust practitioners, scholars, and economists – those who work with antitrust in agencies, courts, or law firms – the development of the antitrust laws over the past half century has been a remarkable and positive development for the American economy and consumers. Most fundamentally, there is agreement that the goal of protecting consumer welfare is and should be the lodestar of modern antitrust enforcement. This has not always been the case. For much of its history, antitrust has done more harm than good. Prior to the modern “consumer-welfare” era, antitrust laws employed confused doctrines that pursued populist notions and often led to contradictory results that purported to advance a variety of social and political goals at the expense of American consumers. From the perspective of antitrust professionals and academics, there is widespread agreement that the intellectual revolution that led to the consumer welfare standard saved an incoherent doctrine from its own internal inconsistencies and saved consumers from its perverse and paradoxical results. Outside of mainstream antitrust practice and the academy, things look quite different. There appears to be another revolution brewing – the Hipster Antitrust Movement. It calls for the return of populism in antitrust enforcement. It declares the modern antitrust era - and the consumer welfare standard specifically – a failure. Hipster Antitrust lays at antitrust law’s feet a myriad of perceived socio-political problems, including, but not limited to, rising inequality, employee wage concerns, and the concentration of political power. The drumbeat for this revolution is strong and growing, with a broad range of enthusiastic participants and devotees, including public intellectuals and think tankers, as well as prominent members of Congress. At its core, the Hipster Antitrust movement calls for a total rejection of the commitment to economic methodology and evidence-based policy that lies at the heart of modern antitrust enforcement. In this Article, we evaluate the Hipster Antitrust claims. Some of those claims are made on modern antitrust’s own terms: that a return to “big-is-bad” antitrust enforcement based upon firm size or banning vertical mergers would make consumers better off. Others are “outside” the domain of consumer welfare-based antitrust: that lax antitrust has caused an increase in economic inequality. We demonstrate that, when evaluated as evidence-based policy proposals, the Hipster Antitrust agenda fails to substantiate its claims and promises. We discuss the dangers to consumers and society of adopting the populist antitrust approach, including enhancing corporate welfare at the expense of consumers, and encouraging rent-seeking by giving agencies and judges unbridled discretion.

Các yếu tố ảnh hưởng đến động lực làm việc của người lao động tại Công ty cổ phần Bia Sài Gòn – Miền Tây (The Factors Affecting the Working Motivation of the Workers at Western Saigon Beer Joint Stock Company)

Vietnamese Abstract: Nghien cứu nay được thực hiện nhằm đanh gia cac yếu tố tac động đến động lực lam việc của người lao động tại Cong ty cổ phần bia Sai gon- Miền Tây (Western Saigon Beer Joint Stock Company- WSB), bằng việc khảo sat 200 người lao động, cong cụ Cronbach’s alpha, EFA va phân tich hồi quy bội được sử dụng. Kết quả đa đưa ra được mo hinh 07 yếu tố co tac động dương đến Động lực lam việc, sắp theo thứ tự giảm dần: Lương, thưởng va phuc lợi; Quan hệ đồng nghiệp; Cơ hội đao tạo va thang tiến; Được cong nhận đầy đủ cong việc đa lam; Triển vọng phat triển của cong ty; Bản chất cong việc; Điều kiện va moi trường lam việc. Từ đo, nghien cứu đề xuất cac giải phap đến ban quản lý cong ty nhằm nâng cao động lực lam việc của cong nhân. English Abstract: This research is to examine factors affecting the working motivation of workers of Saigon Beer Western Joint Stock Company. It was conducted by interviewing 200 workers of the company. Cronbach's Alpha, exploratory factor analyzing and linear multiple regression and methods were implemented to carry out this research. The results show that seven factors affecting the working motivation are listed in descending order including 1) Salary, bonus and corporate welfare; 2) Relationship with co-workers; 3) Training and promotion opportunities; 4) Achievement recognition; 5) Company development perspective; 6) The nature of work and 7) Working conditions. Based on the result, the research proposes solutions for the company’s management board to strengthen the working motivation of the company's workers.

市場化における社会福祉法人の社会的アカウンタビリティ : マルチ・ステークホルダー理論に依拠した組織ガバナンス

市場化における社会福祉法人の社会的アカウンタビリティ : マルチ・ステークホルダー理論に依拠した組織ガバナンス

3 産業福利協会について : 戦前日本における労資協調と労働安全(III 投稿論文)

3 産業福利協会について : 戦前日本における労資協調と労働安全(III 投稿論文)