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Community Connections in Board and Care Homes Serving Chronically Ill Adults in Ten States, 1993-1994 (ICPSR 6783)
Released/updated on: 2024-02-14
Geographic coverage: Oregon, United States, Illinois, Oklahoma, Texas, Kentucky, California, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, New Jersey
Time period: 1993-01-01--1994-12-31
This study examined the implementation of regulations for board and care homes, and investigated formal and informal connections between these facilities and community health and social service agencies. To this end, board and care home inspectors were interviewed about their inspection practices. Inspectors were queried about the types and numbers of board and care homes inspected, frequency of inspections, consistency of regulations across types of board and care homes, proportion of time spent for initial inspections and inspections of homes already licensed, percent of time spent in specific inspection activities, areas used to determine compliance, frequently reported problems, which deficiencies inspectors consider serious, the use of inspection teams, participation of other agencies or specialists, who sees the inspection reports (e.g., agencies, departments, individuals, the public), number of license renewals and revocations, percent of last 50 homes in total compliance, number of complaint investigations in the last three months, percent of complaint reports substantiated, number of unlicensed homes in the area and type of action taken, and number of homes with social service or community-based health agency arrangements. Other variables include inspector's age, gender, education, occupation, and salary range for the current position.
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Effectiveness of Safety Regulations: A Study of U. S. Coast Guard Inspections, Detection of Violations, and Occurrence of Casualties (ICPSR 34624)
Released/updated on: 2013-06-06
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1999-01-01--2001-12-31
This study addresses two issues in the enforcement of public law. The first is whether the system of inspections and penalties set by the regulator is effective. The second is whether a better system of inspections and penalties can be designed, given the institutional constraints under which the regulator must function. We study these issues in the context of oil spill prevention activities of the United States Coast Guard (USCG), the agency entrusted with the enforcement of maritime pollution laws. A theoretically optimal contract that mixes penalties based on the amount of pollution ex post with penalties based on the extent of noncompliance ex ante is derived. The effectiveness of USCG inspections and penalties in reducing oil spills is then econometrically studied using microlevel data on a panel of United States flag tank vessels. Whether the optimal penalty can potentially improve the effectiveness of compliance inspections in reducing oil spills is examined in the light of the empirical results and recent developments in the economics and public management literature on effective incentive contracting. Among our findings is the potential for combining unilateral incentive-based methods with cooperative methods based on reciprocity to solve the complex problem of law enforcement.
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Banking Reserves Tape, 1959-1986: [United States] (ICPSR 3547)
Released/updated on: 2003-04-25
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1959-01-01--1986-12-31
This collection contains data for aggregate reserves and the monetary base that incorporate the latest adjustments for discontinuities associated with the Monetary Control Act and other regulatory changes to reserve requirements. Weekly data present in these tables cover the period from the beginning of 1959 through 1986. Historical data are shown as follows: Table 1 (monthly) and Table 3 (weekly) present data on reserves measures and the monetary base adjusted to remove discontinuities caused by regulatory changes in reserve requirements. Table 2 (monthly) and Table 4 (weekly) contain data on reserves measures and the monetary base not adjusted for discontinuities. Series adjusted for discontinuities are shown on both a seasonally adjusted and not seasonally adjusted basis. Table 5 (monthly) and Table 6 (weekly) show memorandum items, not adjusted for discontinuities in the reserve requirement structure and not seasonally adjusted. These items include reserve balances at Federal Reserve Banks, vault cash of depository institutions, and borrowings of depository institutions from the Federal Reserve.
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Union Representation Elections and the Role of the National Labor Relations Board (ICPSR 7625)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1972-02-01--1973-09-30
This data collection contains survey results based on personal interviews conducted with 1,239 workers who participated in union representation elections in the United States in 1972-1973. The purpose of the study was to test the validity of the assumptions made by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that employees are likely to attend to and be significantly influenced by the pre-election campaign in deciding whether or not to vote for union representation. These assumptions were the basis of many NLRB rules and regulations surrounding such elections. This study attempted to measure the actual effect of the pre-election campaign, particularly unlawful campaigning, on the employees' predisposition to vote for or against union representation. To that end, employees were interviewed in two waves, first to determine how employees intended to vote before the campaign began and then to measure how they ultimately voted. In Wave 1, workers were questioned about their pre-campaign sentiments about union representation. Employees were asked how they felt about their working conditions and about unions in general. They also were asked whether or not they had signed a union authorization card and how they would vote if the election were to be held the next day. In Wave 2, employees were asked to recall the content of the campaign and to disclose how they had voted and why, including any observations of pressures exerted by companies/employers or unions before and after the representation elections. Data collected about the respondents' demographic characteristics and job experience include age, sex, race, education level, political preferences, marital status, tenure, hours working (per week), wage rate (per hour), if previous union member, if voted in previous NLRB election, and if spouse, father, or mother were union members. The study and its objectives are laid out in Getman, Julius G., Stephen B. Goldberg, and Jeanne B. Herman. UNION REPRESENTATION ELECTIONS: LAW AND REALITY. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1976.