…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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…included those governing family and medical leave as well as the size of the public social-service sector, which is typically characterized by “‘female friendly’ employment conditions.” Key findings include: The…
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…with current PTSD. We assessed three components of work-related quality of life (employment status, clinician-rated occupational impairment, and self-rated occupational satisfaction) and performed analyses with and without adjusting for self-reported…
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…explained by the peaking optimism of those participating in the women’s movement in the 1970s.” Though there have been “compositional shifts in employment for women,” the data show “neither trend…
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…poverty, especially in environments with few formal employment opportunities. Recent research reveals a number of characteristics of microfinance that can affect its implementation across the continent, including: how the economic…
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…employment patterns are not beneficial for female employees in that occupations in these sectors pay less than do other sectors of the labor market.” Whether or not more women are…
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…child’s online activity might affect their future academic or employment opportunities, with some 44% being “very” concerned about that. Sixty-nine percent of parents of online teens are concerned about how…
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