How minimum-wage increases squeeze the poor
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email When policy wonks call for the minimum wage to rise, they often discuss helping workers at the bottom of the income ladder, or address rising…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email When policy wonks call for the minimum wage to rise, they often discuss helping workers at the bottom of the income ladder, or address rising…
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…had misclassified some workers as “employed but absent from work,” rather than “unemployed on temporary layoff,” according to the BLS. The actual unemployment rate for April might have been north…
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…entry into (or exit from) the occupation,” the authors write. A tight labor market is characterized by high employment levels and high demand for workers. In heavy and tractor-trailer trucking,…
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…health care savings for every $1 invested. Other benefits can include reduced days lost to sickness, lower workers’ compensation insurance premiums and higher rates of employee retention. The authors studied…
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…colleges. Complicating the picture is the lingering economic slowdown, a consequence of the financial crisis, housing collapse and subsequent Great Recession. Does having an advanced degree give workers more protection…
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…to steal in the presence of co-workers when cash is involved, but the presence of co-workers has less of a deterrent effect on inventory theft. The authors posit that employees…
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…The fact that humans still do many things better than computers does not mean everything is rosy for workers today and tomorrow. Computerized work has ratcheted up the basic skills…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email From the Scholars Strategy Network, written by Cristobal Young, Stanford University Many American workers have not yet regained their footing in the aftermath of the…
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…Scandinavia — labor unions represent such a large portion of workers that the setting of a minimum earnings rate is left to the confederated unions to negotiate with business. Almost…
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…a useful context. It exhibits a typical disconnect between where low-wage workers live and where they work which parallels many other U.S. cities.” For his study, Phillips and his research…
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