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…2017), corporate income taxes paid by businesses (9.9 percent), and payroll taxes paid by employers and their workers (32.7 percent), some of which go into trust funds like Social Security…
…2017), corporate income taxes paid by businesses (9.9 percent), and payroll taxes paid by employers and their workers (32.7 percent), some of which go into trust funds like Social Security…
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…necessary sacrifice to become ideal workers. We discuss these issues and suggest that sports media will fail to reach gender parity until these barriers are addressed; until then, the revolving…
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…jobs. The U.S. Department of Labor says only 12 percent of private-sector workers receive paid maternity or paternity leave. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised a policy…
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…on fracking and earthquakes in this 2017 review. This 2017 paper in the American Economic Journal discusses how sudden spikes in the price of oil can hurt skilled workers’ wages….
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…personal success.” A 2016 study in Social Problems, “Housing and Employment Insecurity among the Working Poor,” finds that workers who have been forced out of their homes are more likely…
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…as social programs for the poor) and corporate intervention (such as reducing the differences in pay between executives and low-skilled workers). This same group was also less likely to say…
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…account cited by D’Acunto and his colleagues in the paper profiled above, 3 percent of German workers were Jewish, yet Jews accounted for 23 percent of the finance sector and…
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…this is supposed to stimulate higher wages or the hiring of more workers; for individuals, increased spending on consumer goods. Youssef Benzarti of UCLA and Dorian Carloni of the Congressional…
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…Mankiw calls the estate tax unfair to hard workers. Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley and Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics, however, have called for an…
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…paying for benefits, today’s employers, including universities, often divide fulltime hours across multiple parttime workers, contributing to the growing number of students working several jobs to make ends meet.” Higher…
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