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Increased organizational support for employees' adoption efforts yields positive benefits
When an organization supports its employees who choose to adopt children, the employees, their families, the adopted children and the organization itself experience positive benefits and outcomes, according to new research ...
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You can have too much of a good thing, says study of financial analysts' work-life balance
Last winter, Goldman Sachs reported it was working to make things better after a group of junior analysts revolted against 100-hour work weeks.
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Firms that gain more media visibility can expect to perform better
Firms that are more visible in the media increase their value and their stock returns, according to new research from Aalto University and Goethe University.
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People overestimate Black Americans' chances of economic success
Americans consistently believe that poor African Americans are more likely to move up the economic ladder than they actually are, a new study shows.
Social Sciences
23 hours ago
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Study on fiscal policy advocates for making hay while the sun shines
A study published in Economic Inquiry that examined data from 133 countries from 1950-2014 found that a reduction in fiscal space—with fiscal space being the ability of governments to provide resources without undermining ...
Economics & Business
Jun 23, 2021
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Pandemic shift to home working could create UK tax crisis
The shift to home working brought about by the pandemic could cost the UK economy up to £32 billion a year in lost personal income tax.
Economics & Business
Jun 22, 2021
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How shadow banks have exploited the COVID-19 crisis
Rather than leveling inequality, as the Great Depression did, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequalities around the world allowing some wealthy investors to benefit from the crisis and make a fortune from the misfortune ...
Economics & Business
Jun 22, 2021
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Algorithms 22% more accurate at predicting welfare dependency
Artificial intelligence is a fifth more accurate at predicting whether individuals are likely to become long-term recipients of benefits.
Social Sciences
Jun 22, 2021
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The stag hunt: Why a circular economy is so difficult
We know we use far more resources per year today than the Earth manages to regenerate. And the warnings of the long-term negative consequences this will have are becoming increasingly clear—not only for the environment, ...
Economics & Business
Jun 22, 2021
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How American racism is rooted in residential segregation
The disproportionate use of police brutality against people of color in America. Higher COVID-19 death rates of Black and Latinx people in the health care system. Lower percentages of homeownership and loans approved in Black ...
Social Sciences
Jun 22, 2021
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Why do some incidents of sexual misconduct go unreported? It's complicated
It's not uncommon for incidents of sexual misconduct in the workplace to go unreported. Prof. Alice Hsiaw wanted to understand why.
Social Sciences
Jun 22, 2021
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Are low-paid jobs really a stepping stone to better pay? A new study suggests it's not that simple
A job—any job—is generally thought of as better than no job at all. Consequently, low-paid work is often considered a "stepping stone" to a higher-paid job. But how easily do low-paid workers climb up the pay scale, really?
Social Sciences
Jun 21, 2021
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The ongoing urban exodus
Many employees have come to prefer working from home after being forced to do so more than a year ago when the pandemic started. By some estimates, at least one-quarter of employees will still be working remotely multiple ...
Economics & Business
Jun 18, 2021
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There's a good reason online retailers are investing in physical stores
Researchers from Colorado State University, Amazon, and Dartmouth College published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines the role of physical stores for selling "deep" products.
Economics & Business
Jun 18, 2021
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After the pandemic: Economy, poverty and climate in the post-COVID-19 era
The COVID-19 pandemic had devastating impacts on economic activity in 2020, but how long will its impact persist, and what will be its long-term impact on the decarbonization of our societies?
Economics & Business
Jun 17, 2021
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Report shows diversity on the charts, but not in executive ranks of music companies
Nearly half of the performers on the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End Charts over the last nine years were from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups. Yet, a comprehensive new report from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative ...
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2021
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Working from home: How classism covertly dominated the conversation
Since the arrival of the pandemic, media accounts about the new world of work have painted a curiously uniform picture of the jobs that people across the UK do. Chief among them was the idea that everyone was all suddenly ...
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2021
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Study on traffic deaths makes strong case for remote work
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked renewed interest in remote work arrangements, which also could help improve occupational and traffic safety, according to a study by researchers at Florida Atlantic University and the University ...
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2021
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Latinas were more likely than other groups to drop out of workforce during pandemic
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Latinas have not only experienced disproportionately high unemployment rates, but they also are dropping out of the workforce at higher rates than any other demographic group.
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2021
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Public health expert: 'We need to go forward to a new type of normal'
Six months after the first COVID-19 vaccine was approved for emergency use in the U.S., the country's vaccination rate is nearing 50%, case rates have plummeted in most areas, and large states like New York and California ...
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2021
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