If you put water on the stove and heat it up, it will at first just get hotter and hotter. You may then conclude that heating water results only in hotter water. But at some point everything changes – the water starts to ...
Economics & Business
Apr 6, 2016
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The decline in the fluidity, or dynamism, of the U.S. labor market has been occurring along a number of dimensions—including the rate of job-to-job transition, hires and separations, and geographic movement across labor ...
Economics & Business
Mar 4, 2016
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Asian countries are aging faster than has been seen anywhere else in the world, and they need to urgently reform pension systems and encourage more women to enter the labor force, the World Bank said in a report Wednesday.
Social Sciences
Dec 9, 2015
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A new Cornell study presents the first evidence that students' exposure to a duty-to-bargain law while in elementary and secondary school lowers future earnings and leads to fewer hours worked, reductions in employment and ...
Social Sciences
Nov 26, 2015
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One in four people in Philadelphia between the ages of 18 and 24 are "disconnected" from the labor market – out of school and out of work – according to a new study from Drexel University's Center for Labor Markets and ...
Social Sciences
Sep 30, 2015
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The Netherlands had the strongest stereotypes associating science with men more than women, according to a new Northwestern University study that included data from nearly 350,000 people in 66 nations.
Social Sciences
May 18, 2015
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"Consensual unions," two people living in the same dwelling in a relationship akin to marriage, have been an integral part of family life in Latin America for centuries. In fact, in Latin America, legal marriages and consensual ...
Social Sciences
Mar 18, 2015
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Why aren't people who care deeply about issues like job loss, health care costs and college debt politically active on these issues? Why aren't mobilization efforts more effective?
Economics & Business
Feb 11, 2015
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As chief of the Associated Press' Tokyo bureau, Joseph Coleman wrote a story about an agricultural cooperative in southwestern Japan where organizers put aging residents to work selling leaves and flowers as seasonal garnishes ...
Social Sciences
Feb 2, 2015
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U.S. military veterans are more likely to file for disability compensation and less likely to find employment than ever before, according to a Stanford economist.
Social Sciences
Dec 19, 2014
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