The great U.S. economic boom after World War II was an urban phenomenon. Tens of millions of Americans flocked to cities to work and forge a future in the nation's middle class. And for a few decades, living in the big city ...
Economics & Business
Jul 8, 2020
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Workplace gender bias is being kept alive by people who think it's no longer an issue, new research suggests.
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Jun 26, 2020
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The U.S. is witnessing a dramatic rise in nontraditional 'gig economy' labor markets where workers are hired for single projects often on a short-term basis. An estimated 0.4% of U.S. adults are currently receiving income ...
Economics & Business
Mar 4, 2020
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Over the last 20 years, the number of female CEOs leading S&P 500 firms has increased fivefold. But it's a deceiving figure: among large publicly traded firms, women still only make up six percent of all CEOs.
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Feb 24, 2020
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Investors need to pay closer attention to the non-financial measures linked to CEO cash bonuses, because targets that are not disclosed, or undefined, in annual reports are associated with worse company performance down the ...
Economics & Business
Oct 16, 2019
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Several cases addressing whether it's legal to fire a worker because of their sexual orientation and gender identity were taken up by the Supreme Court this week.
Social Sciences
Oct 9, 2019
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As companies trim their hierarchies and form teams of employees to manage themselves, researchers from Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis are sounding warning bells.
Social Sciences
Jul 9, 2019
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High-flying careers in the airline industry don't mean sky-high salaries for women, according to new research by Swansea University.
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2019
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While serious economic and societal issues continue to swirl around the gender pay gap, new research published in the INFORMS journal Organization Science shows one area where this inequality is starting to disappear—higher ...
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2019
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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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