In Switzerland, 40% of the working population works part-time, according to 2025 figures from the Federal Statistical Office (FSO). Women account for the lion's share: 60% of women in the workforce are employed part-time, ...
Social Sciences
Sep 28, 2026
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Indigenous workers in Australia earn 15.9% less per hour on average than all workers—or 84 cents for every $1 earned by non-Indigenous people—our research found.
Social Sciences
Sep 28, 2026
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For all the talk about generational differences at work, some of the biggest differences show up in surprisingly ordinary moments.
Economics & Business
Sep 25, 2026
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What happens when loneliness follows a young person from the school hallway into the workplace? New research suggests that feeling lonely during adolescence may be linked to a greater risk of unstable or less secure employment ...
Social Sciences
Sep 25, 2026
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The U.S. housing bubble of the early 2000s sent home prices soaring before the market crashed in 2007–08, triggering a foreclosure crisis and a deep recession.
Economics & Business
Sep 25, 2026
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From coffee shops to customer service call centers, most people believe they have a good sense of how long a service will take. But new research from the University of Florida Warrington College of Business shows that customers ...
Social Sciences
Sep 25, 2026
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Consumer sentiment fell by less than four index points in September, reaching its lowest reading in four months and down 15% from January 2026, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.
Economics & Business
Sep 25, 2026
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A widely held belief that women have more emotional intelligence than men does not hold up under scrutiny, according to a large study of research spanning three decades.
Social Sciences
Sep 24, 2026
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Selecting profitable investments from an increasingly large and constrained pool of assets could become more effective with a hybrid quantum-classical method, according to research in the International Journal of Information ...
Mathematics
Sep 24, 2026
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With an estimated 36% of people in the United States having some degree of lactose intolerance, there may be an expanded market for lactose-free or reduced-lactose ice cream—especially if those with lactose intolerance are ...
Economics & Business
Sep 24, 2026
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