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- 08 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate
strong incentives to impose restrictions on women’s promiscuity. “The gender gaps in labor market participation, micro-entrepreneurship, or business ownership more generally seem to also partly reflect this social norm against women.”... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
wages scored 0.16 standard deviation units higher on an index of labor market engagement. Rates were even higher at 0.21 units for socially constrained women with husbands who subscribed to social norms... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
By: Marco Di Maggio & Amir Kermani SEP 2016 How can unemployment insurance serve as an automatic stabilizer to mitigate the economy’s sensitivity to shocks? Using a local labor market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
work programs launched: CCC, PWA, WPA CIO union created NLRB created Fair Labor Standards Act sets minimum wage Influence: Low 40 1940 s 19 Rosie the Riveter Postwar strikes Productivity surge Government... View Details
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
want the selling of kidneys to be legal might be the following. Suppose you don't want to sell your kidney. The standard argument is that if we made selling kidneys legal, you would be just where you are now: You're not selling your... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management Authors:Maria Guadalupe, Hongyi Li, and Julie Wulf Abstract This paper shows that top management structures in large U.S. firms have radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2017
- Op-Ed
Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs
Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More
notice and take action, according to the research, published September in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. The study could provide an incentive of its own for businesses looking to attract and retain talent amid a brisk View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 21 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms
to pick the coffee cherries in the cooler morning air. Then they spend days tending to the drying beans, meticulously sorting them for sale. To ensure that more of the value produced in the supply chain is returned to the farm laborers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
indulgence or a necessity. If a tub of ice cream gets too expensive, someone might just choose another dessert. It makes less sense for necessities—like reducing the number of diapers in a package of Pampers—and in categories when there are View Details
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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni
file labor certification applications. The system requires employers to first test the US labor market through a variety of standard recruitment methods. Following the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
organizational leaders rely on their own experiences and established success standards to form expectations for these workers, resulting in them feeling discouraged and unable to fit in. The paper, Relational Reconciliation: Socializing... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
Frederick Taylor's application of scientific methods to the study of physical labor had begun to be extended to the organization of industry as well as to spheres such as higher education and government. While Taylorism was quickly... View Details
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
“The Labor Market and Political Effects of Automation” with Sydnee Caldwell. Marlous van Waijenburg : 2020: Finalist for the bi-annual Stephen Ellis Prize for the most innovative article in African Affairs for "Africa Rising? A Historical... View Details
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
to being good stewards of the land, they wanted to produce syrup that would set a new industry standard in quality and flavor. Turner began researching everything he could find about sugaring and found a willing mentor in Mike Farrell,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
almost exclusively in those same large vehicles likely to be made obsolete by a new 35.5 MPG standard the Administration has promised to implement by 2016. Daniel Heller, Visiting Scholar: All stakeholders must work together to make GM's... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
colada, the standard offerings for non-drinkers—even at special occasions—can feel like real kids’ table fare. Royle and Wood saw a demand for adult beverages as interesting and complex as a satisfying cocktail, just without the alcohol.... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?
college admissions to world trade. Its most current form has arisen in connection with moves by the United States to take actions to stem the influx of Chinese-produced goods. Some would claim the influx is the result of an absence of a level playing field created by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
process, in which diverse views are able to provide input with no one party able to receive a special voice. "As the chairman of Goldman Sachs or Citigroup or IBM, you have a substantial capacity to structure the rules of the game when it comes to accounting View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding