One of the most spectacular facts of the last two centuries of economic history is the exponential growth in GDP per capita in most of the world. Figure 1 shows the rise (and the difference) in living standards for five countries ...
Economics & Business
May 31, 2019
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Going without food and heating has become a routine part of daily life for families on low incomes, according to the latest findings from the COVID Realities project.
Economics & Business
Mar 22, 2022
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Job losses during the pandemic were substantially worse among workers in low-paying jobs, leading to a dramatic increase in wage inequality during the early months of the COVID-19 recession, says new research co-written by ...
Economics & Business
Sep 7, 2020
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Aligning minimum wages with fair ('living') wages could generate further positive productivity effects and slash the number of working poor, Australian and British researchers have found.
Economics & Business
Jun 2, 2016
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In a study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface in January 2021, SFI External Professor Doyne Farmer, first author Maria del Rio-Chanona, and their colleagues at Oxford University explore the impact of ...
Social Sciences
Feb 17, 2021
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Neighborhoods with significant Latino and Asian American populations in Los Angeles County are particularly vulnerable to economic uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report sponsored by the Latino ...
Social Sciences
Apr 7, 2020
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University of Washington researchers continue to study the impact of the 2014 Seattle minimum wage ordinance. An interdisciplinary team of faculty and graduate students who have tracked various industries since the ordinance's ...
Social Sciences
Feb 7, 2019
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A proposal to redefine low wage employers' obligations to their workers could raise up to $190 million a year in new revenue for Connecticut to help pay for public assistance programs, according to a new study by a group ...
Economics & Business
May 18, 2015
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Baristas who work in specialty coffee shops, along with hipsters more generally, have been referred to as the "shock troops" of urban gentrification—and it's no different in Philadelphia. These servers of artisanal coffee ...
Social Sciences
Nov 23, 2023
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The legacies of California's 1849 Gold Rush and the relentless search for gold that continued decades later are well known: the rise of San Francisco; statehood; Wells Fargo; Levi's jeans; a Bay Area football team named after ...
Environment
Feb 26, 2024
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