Women, work and work/life balance: Research roundup
…state’s institutional environment, the smaller the gender gap in earnings. The pay gap for women workers in states with large public social-service sectors is larger than that for those in…
…state’s institutional environment, the smaller the gender gap in earnings. The pay gap for women workers in states with large public social-service sectors is larger than that for those in…
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…2010 Chase Manhattan Bank online competition. Other HPA videos, such as a campaign supporting workers’ rights that depicted Harry’s battles against the Dark Lord WaldeMart [sic], involve broad parodies of…
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…to different conclusions (summarized below). Education level has a significant negative impact on poverty rate. “In 2000, high school graduation seemed to be the threshold that most directly pushed workers…
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…commitment to various environmental and social causes, as well as the ethical treatment of workers. Still, high-profile controversies such as the working conditions at Foxconn, Apple’s manufacturing supplier in China,…
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…decreasing…. Economic growth and rising agricultural productivity in Mexico have increased job opportunities and reservation wages for rural Mexican workers.” The Mexican workforce is shifting away from farm work while…
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…company CEOs routinely being paid hundreds of times more than their workers; to the vast amounts of money firms spent on political races in the wake of 2010 Citizens United…
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…have shown growing reluctance to support such increases. Fuel taxes, which traditionally fund road projects, have also fallen as people drive less, more workers telecommute, and legislatures hesitate to increase…
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…women. This difference partly reflects women’s greater likelihood of working part time. However, even among full-time workers (those usually working 35 hours or more per week), men worked longer than…
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…A 2012 study in the Journal of Economic Geography found that jobs requiring analytic and social-intelligence skills paid more than those that didn’t. Workers in such fields were also 2%…
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…traits, it has been proposed that a “think crisis–think female” association may exist. In a field study (N = 301 workers and managers) we examined this association and identified two…
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