…Assignments: Have students ask five people you know if they would file a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission if they felt they were being harassed or discriminated against…
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…nature and quality of employment. A 2011 paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, “Globalization, Structural Change and Productivity Growth,” used data from the Groningen Growth and Development Center…
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…North Africa and the Middle East. One of the factors frequently cited is the unusually high rate of youth unemployment throughout the region. A 2007 study by the Dubai School…
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…purely to results. The data used are from “publicly available expert witness reports generated in employment discrimination litigation against a large financial services firm” in 2006 and 2007, augmented by…
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…of Economic Geography, “Cities, Skills and Wages,” analyzes employment data in the United States to better understand how job skills affect wages in cities of different sizes. The researchers, based…
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…private sector, “suggesting that public employment is more women friendly than private employment.” Between 1993 and 2006, it “appears that the private- and public-sector workers have become more similar in…
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…real jobs. The rest were unemployed, left the country in search of employment or took up low or zero productivity jobs as family laborers or in low return, largely informal…
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…40% in the 1980s to 30% in 2010. The share of total U.S. employment at young firms has fallen from more than 20% in the 1980s to just 12% in…
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…from 21 to 18 allowed younger, typically unmarried women access to the Pill, and how this early access was reflected in women’s employment, educational attainment and earnings in subsequent decades….
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…to call for using more direct measures of teacher performance to determine employment eligibility (or compensation). The evidence presented here shows that VAM measures of teacher effectiveness are stable enough…
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