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Rachelle Alterman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Planning in the Face of Crisis: Land Use, Housing, and Mass Immigration in Israel
    2005
    Co-Authors: Rachelle Alterman
    Abstract:

    Part I: Theories about Planning During Crises. Part II: Land Policy, Housing, and Planning on the Eve of the Crisis. Part III: Phases and Modes of Policy Response to the Crisis. Part IV: The Local Government Perspective. Part V: Planning in the Face of Crisis.

  • Can Planning Help in Time of Crisis?: Planners' Responses to Israel's Recent Wave of Mass Immigration
    Journal of the American Planning Association, 1995
    Co-Authors: Rachelle Alterman
    Abstract:

    Abstract This paper looks at the national crisis of Mass Immigration to Israel between 1990 and 1992 as a large-scale laboratory for studying the responses of planners and decisionmakers to crises. Several planning theorists have expressed doubt that there are recognized planning approaches for handling crises, or that planning can be of much help. Can planning guide decisions when uncertainty and turbulence are of such magnitude, or are crises accompanied by “planning failure”? Or may the planning function, perhaps, be strengthened? Do crises show decision modes or trajectories different from noncrisis situations? And what roles do planners play? How do they face situations of heightened ethical conflict? This paper analyzes the modes of response of decisionmakers and planners in crisis, following its various phases, and then draws lessons that can enhance our understanding of planning practice in varied contexts and types of problems.

Vernon M. Briggs - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • At a Crossroad: Immigration Reform and American Unionism
    2002
    Co-Authors: Vernon M. Briggs
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    Since the founding days of the Republic, the relationship between American unionism and Mass Immigration has been contentious. No issue has caused the labor movement more agony and irony. It is no surprise, therefore, that throughout its history the American labor movement has sought to influence U.S. Immigration policy."

  • Mass Immigration, Free Trade, and the Forgotten American Worker
    Challenge, 1995
    Co-Authors: Vernon M. Briggs
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    The author discusses the impact on the workforce of changes in U.S. economic and Immigration policy. "If continued Mass Immigration and the pursuit of free trade result in undermining the nations trade union movement and its labor-protection laws then the price is too high. It must also be considered exorbitant if these policies continue to help reduce American workers living standards and widen income inequality within the nation." (EXCERPT)

  • Mass Immigration and the National Interest: Policy Directions for the New Century
    1992
    Co-Authors: Vernon M. Briggs
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    As America begins the 21st century there is growing outcry across the land for reform of the nation's chaotic Immigration policies. This text shows how Immigration patterns are in direct conflict with emerging labour market trends and constitute a serious threat to the jobs of American workers.

  • Despair Behind the Riots: The Impediment of Mass Immigration to Los Angeles Blacks
    1992
    Co-Authors: Vernon M. Briggs
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    Economic despair -by all accounts – significantly fueled the recent Los Angeles rioting. Virtually ignored in all analyses, though, has been one of the root causes of the despair: the effect of the revival of Mass Immigration on the economic status of black Americans."

  • Mass Immigration and the national interest
    1992
    Co-Authors: Vernon M. Briggs
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    US Immigration policy has stimulated the largest inflow of immigrants in the 1980s and 1990s than at any time in the history of the US. In this analysis, the author seeks to show how the policy was designed essentially by political considerations. Briggs argues that policy neglected Immigration's economic impact at a time when the country was entering a fundamental economic adjustment. He believes that the US does not face labour shortage per se, but a shortage of quality labour. Yet Immigration has led to a majority of new workers seeking unskilled jobs in declining sectors in manufacturing and services and has given rebirth to sweatshop enterprises and child labour law violations. For the first time in US history, ths author argues, the results of Immigration policy are inconsistent with US national interest.

Andreas Faludi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Planning in the Face of Crisis: Land Use, Housing and Mass Immigration in Israel
    Town Planning Review, 2003
    Co-Authors: Andreas Faludi
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    Planning in the Face of Crisis: Land Use, Housing and Mass Immigration in Israel, Rachelle Alterman, London, Routledge, 2002, 212 pp., £21.99 (p/b) There are disasters, and there are welcome crises. To Israel, Gorbachev allowing Soviet Jewry to come was of the second kind, but it nevertheless threw planning, wrapped up in the assumption of a 'steady Israel', into turmoil. Alterman has written a 'page turner' on this, leading to the wholesome conclusion that planning does not necessarily fail us during crises. In Planning in the Face of Crisis Alterman writes as engagingly as she speaks at conferences. She starts out by exploring what others have to say about the situation faced by Israel having to accommodate 200,000 immigrants in 1990 alone (a figure estimated to reach in due course 1.5 million and even 2 million), a challenge no Western country has faced during peace time. The harvest of her review of the literature on crisis planning is pitifully small. Christensen (1985; 1999) seems the only one arguing that planners need not give up when chaos strikes and that they may be able to redefine the problem, thereby turning it into something more manageable. So Alterman adopts an inductive approach, gathering evidence about the decisions of planners and policy makers. She identifies five phases in the process-shock, focusing, action, planning (in this order!) and post-crisis management. The book analyses the process in these terms. Space does not permit a summary of the tale of why and how the housing blitz succeeded (among others by skilfully harnessing the resources of the private sector) and how the crisis re-invigorated planning through the Israel 2020 exercise, initiated by professionals and academics, reported on elsewhere (Alterman, 2001). The case studies on how the process has played itself out in two towns in the Galilee are structured according to the same fivephase model, but adding a note on the impact of immigrants, both positive and negative. Apparently, Russian satellite television supplemented by a rich complement of Russian-language newspapers allows the newcomers to keep aloof from the Israeli melting pot. The final chapter on 'Can planning help in a time of crisis?' argues that, although planners may find it difficult to prepare for crises, they can play a role, 'indeed a much more pivotal one than in normal times' (p. 174) during and after crises. Thus, even during the action phase of the crisis geared to achieving the kind of quantifiable output dictated by circumstance, planners were trying to balance speed and quality. And planners broadened the focus to embrace the long-term implications, including those for 'sacred cow' policies such as population distribution, protection of agricultural land and restrictions on the transfer of public land. …

Michele Bruni - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • China between Economic Growth and Mass Immigration
    China & World Economy, 2013
    Co-Authors: Michele Bruni
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    In order to continue along its path of sustained economic growth, China will need, probably in just a few years, certainly after 2030, an extremely high number of immigrants. This conclusion, which contrasts with a recent World Bank scenario suggesting that the decline in labor supply due to demographic trends can be faced with sustained growth in productivity, is based upon a demand-driven model of migration. Moreover, according to the same model, the decline in fertility (and the one child policy that has been partially responsible for it) will end up provoking Immigration flows above replacement level. The working age population and the total population will continue to increase, and China will remain the most populous country on the planet. The last part of the paper surveys the policies that China could adopt to reduce its structural need for foreign labor.

Eric Renshaw - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The M / M /1 queue with Mass exodus and Mass arrivals when empty
    Journal of Applied Probability, 1997
    Co-Authors: Anyue Chen, Eric Renshaw
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    An M/M/1 queue is subject to Mass exodus at rate β and Mass Immigration at rate {αr; r≥ 1} when idle. A general resolvent approach is used to derive occupation probabilities and high-order moments. This powerful technique is not only considerably easier to apply than a standard direct attack on the forward p.g.f. equation, but it also implicitly yields necessary and sufficient conditions for recurrence, positive recurrence and transience.

  • THE MIMI1 QUEUE WITH Mass EXODUS
    1997
    Co-Authors: Anyue Chen, Eric Renshaw
    Abstract:

    An M/M/1 queue is subject to Mass exodus at rate #f and Mass Immigration at rate c,; r > 1 } when idle. A general resolvent approach is used to derive occupation probabilities and high-order moments. This powerful technique is not only considerably easier to apply than a standard direct attack on the forward p.g.f. equation, but it also implicitly yields necessary and sufficient conditions for recurrence, positive recurrence and transience.