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- 2012
- Book
A Year Up: How a Pioneering Program Teaches Young Adults Real Skills for Real Jobs--With Real Success
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Training; Equality and Inequality; Income; Competency and Skills
Chertavian, Gerald. A Year Up: How a Pioneering Program Teaches Young Adults Real Skills for Real Jobs--With Real Success. Viking Press, 2012.
- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
written by Harvard Business School faculty—along with links to the full text of those papers. Here are the five most downloaded working papers of 2018: Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality While... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
needed in the application process, but sometimes also in pushing for consideration and approval. A loan officer’s role may be especially critical for applicants who may not tick all the conventional boxes, like having a robust credit score, proof of assets, and... View Details
- May 2024
- Article
Refugees Are Hosted in Highly Vulnerable Communities
By: C. Austin Davis, Paula Lopez-Peña, A. Mushfiq Mobarak and Jaya Y. Wen
Low- and middle-income nations host 76 percent of the world's refugees. This study uses original data to explore within-country spatial variability in refugee-hosting responsibilities. We find that hosting responsibilities for the displaced Rohingya people in... View Details
Keywords: Refugees; Political Elections; Equality and Inequality; Immigration; Developing Countries and Economies; Income
Davis, C. Austin, Paula Lopez-Peña, A. Mushfiq Mobarak, and Jaya Y. Wen. "Refugees Are Hosted in Highly Vulnerable Communities." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 114 (May 2024): 75–79.
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
prosperity that has been generated by the functioning of market capitalism. Across the board, however, the primary concern was that the way the system currently functioned was associated with a great disparity of wealth and income in many... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
inequality affects behaviour towards the rich and poor. In Experiment 1, participants who became aware that wealthy individuals donated a smaller percentage of their income switched from rewarding the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
balance between capitalism and democracy, the book includes chapters on the theory and history of these systems that challenge the assumption that their spread will bring about a convergence of incomes either among countries or within... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
empirical study of possible mechanisms by which income inequality may exert macro-level effects is warranted. We suggest further that the one potential mechanism that may be especially worthy of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- February 9, 2016
- Article
How a 10-Year-Old Boy Gave 13,000 Young Adults the Chance to Get Ahead
Keywords: Opportunities; Nonprofit Organizations; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Competency and Skills; Income
Chertavian, Gerald. "How a 10-Year-Old Boy Gave 13,000 Young Adults the Chance to Get Ahead." Forbes Grads of Life (February 9, 2016).
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
instrumental variables approach exploiting an historical shift in innovation activity during World War II to show that this relationship could be causal. Finally, we document a U-shaped relationship between top income View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
complex. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/x/55314 August 2013 Journal of Monetary Economics Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials By: Kerr,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
What if the way we work could be a catalyst for solving huge problems like inequality and climate change? In the new book Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy, Harvard Business School Professor Julie Battilana and a... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
frictions play a first-order role in determining market prices. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49425 Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Brute Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-Based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
effects on productivity, (5) Job design that allows employees to have control over their work is conducive to lower stress levels and better health outcomes (for example, the higher one rises in an organization, the lower the risk of cardiovascular problems), and (6)... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
violence of all sorts is poverty—not absolute poverty, but inequality between the classes. If growth brings more economic equality into a society, then yes, growth is good." Pruthul Patel writes, "Growth is life. Without growth... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
nations, among them Germany, Japan, and Sweden. This note provides background on aspects of economic inequality. It begins by describing both income inequality and wealth inequality, providing an explanation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
which the instruments of accountability are at least as likely to reproduce relationships of inequality as they are to overturn them. Deterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears Author:Benjamin Edelman... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
insights on the resolution of disputes in global trade while contributing to our understanding of the evolving role of modeling at international organizations. Nations' Income Inequality Predicts Ambivalence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
undermine those foundations. Since 2007 when we carried out our initial research, we have experienced a global financial collapse that destroyed the economic position of the middle- and lower-income portions of society; and inequality of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
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