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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Shortage of graduates will harm economy: UK report
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report launched this week shows that a shortage of graduates threatens the UK economy.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Mar 28, 2012 |
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German IT sector in bullish mood at world's top tech fair
The German IT sector headed into the world's biggest high-tech fair in bullish mood, seeing record sales in 2012 ahead of the event's inauguration Monday by the leaders of Germany and Brazil.
Mar 05, 2012 |
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Young people face double penalty in a slow job market
The latest official unemployment figures show that unemployment among young people has soared to 22.3 per cent, higher than the recession of the 1990s, while the overall unemployment rate is nine per cent. New research from ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Feb 29, 2012 |
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West takes Internet freedom for granted: Google boss
The Internet proved the only true form of free communication during the Arab Spring and yet the West has come to take the freedom it confers for granted, Google boss Eric Schmidt said Friday.
Jan 27, 2012 |
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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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Swedish town eyes digital age with Arctic data centre
Perched near the Arctic Circle, the Swedish town of Luleaa hopes that a massive data centre for US social networking giant Facebook will launch the vibrant industrial region into the digital age as a European ...
Nov 27, 2011 |
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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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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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Study may pave way for effective treatment of premature labour
(PhysOrg.com) -- The name is anything but exciting - and yet the compound known as PDC113.824 may have a very exciting future. It is the precursor of a drug which may one day provide effective treatment for ...
Sep 22, 2010 |
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Big pay gap still remains between sexes
The pay gap between the sexes grows substantially over the first ten years of a woman’s career, new research has shown.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 10, 2010 |
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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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Deciding to have a baby is an easier step for public sector workers
Working for the public sector is good for fertility, according to new Economic and Social Research Council funded research at the University of Oxford. The study, which examined patterns of employment and childbearing decisions ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 30, 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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Older workers are the healthy 'survivors' of the workplace
Experts at The University of Nottingham say our stress levels at work peak when we reach about 50 to 55 years of age and decrease as we head towards retirement.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 21, 2009 |
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