Contextual features like the prevailing welfare system including rights to benefits and benefit levels, access to and responsiveness of services as well as social relations and networks could buffer or undermine individuals' strategies and their well-being as a whole.
Farber and Valletta (2013) focused on the duration of benefits rather than their generosity and found no meaningful difference in their job search impact under the very different labor market conditions prevailing during the benefit extension episodes of 2002 04 and 2008 12.
"This court believes that the prevailing wage law could benefit the people of New York and does not see wisdom in the mayor's zeal for the possibility of welcoming to New York City a business that would pay its building service employees less than the prevailing wage," Justice Wright wrote, while adding that "whatever my sympathies," the weight of precedent was clearly on the administration's side.
The Davis-Bacon Act incorporates "bona fide fringe benefits," broadly defined, into prevailing wage determinations, but specifically excludes benefits contractors are required to provide under federal, state, or local law.
Authors of the spending bill also eliminated or diluted provisions on prevailing construction wages, federal benefits for domestic partners and sanctions on Cuba in order to avoid a veto while building Republican support.
The bill would also require that the Davis Bacon Act, under which contractors and subcontractors must pay workers locally prevailing wages and fringe benefits, be applied to some of the projects.
The book also provided a model of radical environmental activism that questioned prevailing attitudes about the benefits of scientific progress and the attitude that humans should take toward nature.
"Someone who works construction six months out of the year makes $40 an hour and benefits under prevailing wage.
Worse, it would deprive our communities of the substantial benefits that prevailing wages have proved to deliver.
It also benefits from prevailing winds that keep it from being unbearably hot or humid, even at the height of summer, and boasts more sunny days than anywhere else in Europe (more than 300 annually).
In exploring how this problem might be highlighted and addressed, it is essential to understand that affluent societies have a great interest in upholding the prevailing institutional arrangements: Their banks benefit from their international lending and — far more importantly — their firms and people benefit greatly from cheap resource supplies.
