News tagged with labour
Does Size Matter? Study shows Taller People Earn More Money
(PhysOrg.com) -- Taller men are able to earn more money than their shorter counterparts simply because taller people are perceived to be more intelligent and powerful, this according to a study published in The Economic Re ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Couples are better able to cope with health shocks than singles: study
Marital status plays a significant role in how individuals cope economically with disability and health shocks, according to a working paper by University of British Columbia economists Giovanni Gallipoli and Laura Turner.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 28, 2009 |
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Older workers do not necessarily perform worse
Do older staff members earn more than they deserve? Dutch research carried out into productivity and incomes among older workers by labour economist Jan van Ours (Tilburg University) shows that the difference ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 12, 2010 |
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Vocational education review
The low-level vocational courses taken by many young people have little or no value in the labour market, suggests an independent review published today by the Department of Education. The report suggests funding should be ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 04, 2011 |
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Do we want a kind of work that doesn't ruin our lives?
The way people's work is organised can harm their health by causing a range of ailments, from cardiovascular disease to problems with mental health. A new research study shows that the best way of working ...
May 03, 2010 |
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Chinese woman jailed over Twitter post
A Chinese woman has been sentenced to a year in a labour camp after she retweeted a Twitter post that mocked anti-Japanese protesters, according to human rights groups.
Nov 18, 2010 |
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Laboring without the labor bed: It's a good thing
A University of Toronto pilot study that re-conceptualized the hospital labour room by removing the standard, clinical bed and adding relaxation-promoting equipment had a 28 per cent drop in infusions of artificial oxcytocin, ...
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Teenagers who 'want to be famous' face poorer job prospects in later life
(PhysOrg.com) -- Teenagers who have unclear career aspirations, or whose ambitions are mismatched with their educational expectations spend more time in unemployment as adults and achieve lower wages according ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 16, 2011 |
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Mathematics confirm the chaos of the Spanish labor market
Unemployment time series in Spain behave in a chaotic way according to a study at the University of Seville. Such chaos demonstrates the complex and unpredictable nature of the Spanish labour market in the ...
Jan 25, 2012 |
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New study on biethnicity in the workplace
New research carried out at the University of Leicester suggests that Barack Obama has become a 'glorious mascot' for biethnic people seeking to achieve in the workplace.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Financial crisis increases suicides and homicides
Market crashes could lead to rises in homicides and suicides, unless governments invest in labour market protections, according to a study published in today's Lancet.
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Engaged employees deliver improved business performance
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research indicates that in the UK and US as many as 70% of employees may not be engaged at work. Therefore, it is not surprising that employee engagement has become something of a hot topic amongst business ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Anti-cancer agent could be used to prevent premature birth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Trichostatin A, an agent initially investigated in the laboratory as a possible cancer therapy, has been shown to inhibit contractions in muscle from the uterus and could have a role in preventing premature ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Labour market specialists win Nobel Economics prize
Three labour market specialists, including one nominated but blocked for the US Federal Reserve board, won the 2010 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for analysing and helping tackle unemployment.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Oct 11, 2010 |
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Many company closures await when elderly small business owners retire
The population of the EU is becoming older, and an ever smaller number of people have to provide for the ageing population. In Sweden, an already critical employment situation is exacerbated by the fact that 25% of managers ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 01, 2011 |
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