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18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

Political and Social Systems. Every country's political system affects its product, labor, and capital markets. In socialist societies like China, for instance, workers cannot form independent trade unions in the labor market, which affects View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

01 Aug 2018
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Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

pressures from globalization have very different outcomes in terms of, say, income and wage inequality.” This suggests, he continued, that domestic social and political choices and the public policy mix are all important. “Rather than... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Jun 2011
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Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

and relatives in Greece lead better lives than they can afford. Their wages are high, their benefits even higher, and their taxes are low (because, he claims, they avoid paying them). Banks in other countries have to finance Greek... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Rewiring the Workplace: Behavioral Economics and the Future of Inclusive Organizations - Blog: RGE Report

leaders, but employees can also work to close gaps by illustrating that their labor is invaluable. This has historically been achieved through various means, but most often through collective bargaining. Professor Beshears’ case study on the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team’s... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Letters to the Editor

some were not. I have seen firsthand union threats and violence against employers and their property. Worse yet, I have seen unbridled coworker intimidation to and by union wage earners. In my opinion, if ever there was a group that must... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

27 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

Women whose moms worked outside the home are more likely to have jobs themselves, are more likely to hold supervisory responsibility at those jobs, and earn higher wages than women whose mothers stayed home full time, according to... View Details

01 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

and productivity, but also in the labor market, as information access and communication technology changes can be expected to affect the wage distribution in opposite directions," their paper states. The researchers looked at... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

UK has failed to grasp the regional approach to development that has been so important to success in other economies,” Porter argues. Slow growth and low wages are primarily the result of regional competitive weaknesses, which have offset... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

maintenance of the tracker during the semester, uses Canada as an example of how deeply the tracker can help trace policy implications. The public typically sees actions like wage reimbursements for laid off workers. But the tracker... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

16 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 16

adapt to the behavioral biases of employees to "sort in" ("sort away") attractive (unattractive) employees; such schemes may also reduce a firm's wage bill. Consequence-Cause Matching: Looking to the Consequences of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50191 Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study By: Exley, Christine L., and Stephen J. Terry Abstract—Volunteers provide a large... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

accounts for more than a quarter of the overall increase in labor supply to the private sector during 1986-2005. Using the reform to instrument for private-sector labor supply, we find that private-sector labor demand is very elastic. We provide suggestive evidence... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

(1998) and Mishel, Bernstein and Schmitt (1999) provide a comprehensive picture of wealth inequality in America, while Conley (1999) clearly points out that many Black Americans have been left out of this economic boom. In real terms, Americans in the 90th percentile... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

01 Mar 2006
News

Drive-In Nation

government-funded pensions and health insurance). And Detroit’s troubles magnify — and perhaps exacerbate — the fact that across industries, traditional understandings and loyalties between employers and employees are breaking down. Coupled with a growing race to the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

02 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

that the share of total household income from self-employment versus outside wages increased 16 percent. That is, these new businesses were successful enough to contribute significantly to household income. "The newly self-employed... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

antitrust issues increasingly factored into the strained relationship between the government and the steel industry. In testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly in 1957, American steelmakers argued they could not increase View Details

15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

to explore the mechanism behind the rise in income inequality. We find tax cuts lead to higher reported capital income and a decrease in wage and salary income. These effects are concentrated among top earners, and we find no effects for... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

you go back into economic sociology studies and studies of wage gaps, you find that you can pull out those situations that are fairly unambiguous and say that there aren't gaps. But if you go into those situations and industries in which... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

Kast, Stephan Meier, and Dina Pomeranz Abstract While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from wages have been found to be highly effective to increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity

complexity? Pipeline problems Max Bazerman on Reducing Discrimination Charlice Hurst on The Just Wage Tool The premise of our work is this core belief that racism and inequity are products of design. And, if they are products of design,... View Details

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