Category: Workers

2012 study from the University of Illinois and Harvard Business School on how higher wages can reduce incidences of theft in the workplace.

2010 study by Monash University, Australia, that sought to better understand cyclists' risk factors by equipping them with helmet-mounted cameras.

2013 research review on U.S. workplace violence. Data sources include the National Crime Victimization Survey and the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.

2013 report by the Congressional Research Service on U.S. employment between 2001 and 2012 based on the Current Population Survey and other sources.

2013 collection of scholarship on social media and the workplace, including recruitment and screening, the employee-employer relationship and legal issues.

2013 study in Information, Communication & Society on the rates at which frequent users of communications technologies report work-life conflicts.

2011 study in the Journal of Women’s Health Issues looks at how responsibilities of work and home spill over and related consequences.

2012 study from the University of Iowa and the University of Texas at Austin showing the complexity of this evolving work practice and the potential downsides.

2012 review of studies on questions of measuring teacher performance, structuring personnel and compensation plans accordingly, and instructor retention.

2013 and 2010 studies for the NBER on the U.S. labor market, the "hollowing out" of middle-income jobs, and disparities between high- and low-wage jobs.