Women in the Labor Force: A Databook
…historical and contemporary statistics on women’s participation in the labor force between 1970 and 2010, including employment, salaries and more. The report is based on data from the Current Population…
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Casino revenues and retail property values: The Detroit case
…rose during this period despite declines in both area population and employment rates between 2001-2008. The researchers suggest that these increases were due to more business activity around the casinos…
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The promise and perils of private voluntary regulation: Labor standards and work organization in two Mexican garment factories
…causes of poor working conditions, is required to promote improved labor standards for the millions of workers employed in global supply chain factories.” Tags: human rights, economy, employment, labor unions…
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Pew Research: Gender reversal on career aspirations
…“A Gender Reversal on Career Aspirations,” synthesized the results of several surveys on employment statistics and attitudes toward work and quality of life conducted by Pew, Gallup and the U.S….
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Market structure, competition from assisted living facilities and quality in the nursing home industry
…home residents with bedsores increased 5.5%, while the number of patients treated using antipsychotic medications rose 30.5%. At the same time, the use of catheters fell 0.05% and the employment…
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2012 Social Security and Medicare trustees report
…of demographic shifts: “Through the mid-2030s, population aging caused by the large baby-boom generation entering retirement and lower-birth-rate generations entering employment will be the largest single factor causing costs to…
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Health reporting: Semester-long course on covering the science, policy and business of health care
…bifurcated system of health insurance based largely on employment with coverage supplied by private insurers. Medicare, a social insurance program, covers the elderly and disabled people; Medicaid, a means-tested welfare…
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Economic impact of stadiums and teams: The case of minor-league baseball
…this area has shown “nonpositive effects” on income, employment, sales tax revenues and spending, the study states. (For a critical review of related literature, see the 2007 University of Maryland…
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Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using earning data
…that students need to think carefully about the fit between their abilities and interests, the attributes of the school they attend and their career aspirations.” Tags: race, employment, higher education…
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Chasing the American dream: Recent college graduates and the Great Recession
…half (48%) thought they will have more financial success than their parents.” Of all those with full-time employment, the median salary was $28,000; for men the figure was slightly higher,…
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