Work, Families and Public Policy series begins Sept. 9
Faculty and graduate students from St. Louis-area universities with an interest in labor, households, health care, law and social welfare are invited to take part in the continuing series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars held biweekly on the Danforth Campus beginning Monday, Sept. 9, and running through Dec. 2. All lectures take place at noon in Seigle Hall, Room 348. The series begins with a lecture by
Derek Neal, PhD, professor in economics at the University of Chicago titled “Designing Accountability Systems and Incentives Schemes
for Educators.”
Relationship between employer and employee much more nuanced than law assumes, says employment law expert
Workers pour sweat, blood and even dollars into the
firms that employ them, especially in a labor market characterized by
employment and retirement insecurity, says Marion Crain, JD, expert on
labor and employment law and professor of law at Washington University
in St. Louis. “Work can shape one’s life in ways that run to the core
of identity,” she says. “Work law, however, ignores these
realities of interdependence and mutual investment, committing itself to
a model of employment as an arm’s length, impersonal cash-for-labor
transaction.” Crain suggests looking at other legal models such as
marriage law to more accurately respond to the realities of the
employment relationship, particularly at termination.
Work, Families and Public Policy series continues Jan. 23
Faculty and graduate students from St. Louis-area universities with an interest in labor, households, health care, law and social welfare are invited to take part in a series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars to be held biweekly on the Danforth Campus at Washington University in St. Louis beginning Monday, Jan. 23, through Monday, April 16.The series continues Monday, Jan. 23, with a lecture by Kelly Bishop, PhD, assistant professor of economics at WUSTL, on “Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Estimating Marginal Willingness to Pay for Differentiated Products without Instrumental Variables.”
Work, Families and Public Policy series to begin Feb. 2
Faculty and graduate students from St. Louis-area universities with an interest in topics relating to labor, households, health care, law and social welfare are being invited to take part in a series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars to be held biweekly through April. Now in its eighth year, the “Work, Families and Public Policy” series […]