O'Callaghan, Erin Shepp, Veronica Kirkner, Anne Lorenz, Katherine
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Violence against women
Higher education is not immune to the epidemic of sexual harassment in the United States, particularly sexual harassment of graduate workers. This is due largely to power differentials of status and income, as academia relies on low-wage work. While the literature shows sexual harassment is prevalent across disciplines, current work to address the ...
Lejeune, Aude
Europeans with disabilities continue to face lack of opportunity in areas including education and employment. The extent of such disparities, and policies to address them, vary across the member states of the European Union. In 2000, an EU directive on employment equality set antidiscrimination rules, including requirements for employers to offer r...
Wang, Hsiao-Han Lin, Yu-Hsuan
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Journal of Medical Internet Research
Background Previous studies have shown inconsistencies in the accuracy of self-reported work hours. However, accurate documentation of work hours is fundamental for the formation of labor policies. Strict work-hour policies decrease medical errors, improve patient safety, and promote physicians’ well-being. Objective The aim of this study was to es...
Mayfield, Erin Jenkins, Jesse
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Environmental Research Letters
Achieving an economy-wide net-zero greenhouse gas emissions goal by mid-century in the United States entails transforming the energy workforce. In this study, we focus on the influence of increased labor compensation and domestic manufacturing shares on (a) renewable energy technology costs, (b) the costs of transitioning the U.S. economy to net-ze...
Sotelo Forero, Lorena Vallejo Zamudio, Luis Eudoro
This paper aims to explain the relationship between labor policy and job creation in the industrial sector in Colombia in the period 2010-2018. To the effect, it first examines the topic of labor in the development plans of the two administrations of former president Juan Manuel Santos. First, a diagnostic analysis of industrial employment is carri...
Schipani, Andrés
This article attempts to explain the political determinants of the Kirchners’ strategy towards unions. It argues that this strategy entailed three main features: (1) a considerable redistribution of income and power towards the working class in industrial relations, (2) an attempt by state officials to recraft the landscape of union organizations, ...
Arteaga Prado, Yairín Alfonso Porraspita, Deysi Marquetti Nodarse, Hiram
Reflections on public labor policies have seen an effort to transcend the centralized macroeconomic dimension towards greater recognition of municipal labor management where challenges and opportunities are perceived that must be faced from new conceptions according to changes in the environment. Some of these conceptions are directed to practices ...
Low, Choo Chin
This paper focuses on irregularities as a result of the privatization of migrant worker recruitment and the unregulated activities of outsourcing companies, created by the institutionalization of the outsourcing system. Using Malaysia as its case study, this paper examines the strategies utilized by the government to de-commercialize the migration ...
Ríos González, Iyari
The objective of this work is to analyze the labor policy of industrial peace promoted in Puerto Rico by the government of the Republican Socialists Coalition between 1933-1940. The Mediation and Conciliation Commission attached to the Department of Labor played a fundamental role in its execution. The Commissioner of Labor, through annual reports,...
Krozer, Alice
The role of inequality in development has been the subject of long-standing debates in academic and policy circles. Notwithstanding disagreements about exactly how the two are linked, conventional wisdom agrees that inequality is an objective ‘fact’ that can be measured free from ideological considerations. New data detect trends towards higher ine...
