Sixty-six percent of U.S. teachers who responded to a new, nationally representative RAND Corporation survey said their base salary was inadequate, compared with 39% of U.S. working adults. These teachers want a $17,000 increase ...
Economics & Business
Sep 12, 2023
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For many, neighborhoods that offer children access to better resources, less crime and less violence often result in better opportunities for healthier and more prosperous lives. Indeed, researchers studying the effects of ...
Economics & Business
Jun 27, 2023
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Two pieces of landmark federal legislation intended to lessen the gender pay gap have long been deemed by many scholars to have been ineffectual. Despite the passage of the 1963 Equal Pay Act, signed into law 60 years ago ...
Economics & Business
Jun 15, 2023
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New research published in the inaugural issue of the academic journal Collective Intelligence suggests that evolutionary forces may be fueling collective tendencies to discriminate.
Mathematics
Nov 10, 2022
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Working for a bossless company, i.e. a company where instead of managers telling employees which projects they should work on, employees themselves initiate new or join the existing projects, can sound like a dream to most ...
Economics & Business
Jan 19, 2022
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It is calculated that in Europe at present, 19 million people are children of immigrants, 6 million of whom have parents who were born outside the EU. In Spain, nearly 1 in 4 young people under the age of 18 have foreign-born ...
Social Sciences
May 29, 2019
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In addition to increasing productivity, the introduction of industrial robots has increased wages for the employees. At the same time, industrial robots have also changed the labour market by increasing the number of job ...
Robotics
Oct 22, 2018
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Leveraging cost-reduction opportunities in the roof replacement or new construction markets for residential photovoltaic (PV) installations could help the United States meet the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy ...
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 13, 2018
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(Phys.org)—A Murdoch University researcher has developed a scale to measure a person's desire for fame which he hopes can be used by the marketing industry to tailor campaigns to a celebrity-obsessed audience.
Economics & Business
Jan 16, 2013
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(AP) -- Software maker Adobe says it is laying off 750 workers to better align the company around what it calls digital media and marketing opportunities.
Business
Nov 8, 2011
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