#Going green dramatically benefits businesses – it should be central to their coronavirus recovery strategy

“#Going green dramatically benefits businesses – it should be central to their coronavirus recovery strategy” Credit: Yoyo Dy/Unsplash, FAL The onset of the pandemic and the ensuing lockdown have imperilled businesses worldwide. It will be tempting for firms to put any commitment to the environment in the back seat as they attempt to recover, especially…

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#Workplace transmissions: a predictable result of the class divide in worker rights

“#Workplace transmissions: a predictable result of the class divide in worker rights” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain How to stop sick people going to work? That’s a question the Victorian government has been grappling with since it became clear about 80% of new COVID-19 infections in the state’s second-wave outbreak were from workplace transmissions. After official…

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#How power distance belief affects consumers’ price sensitivity

“#How power distance belief affects consumers’ price sensitivity” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Indiana University and Miami University-Ohio published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines how power distance belief affects consumers’ price sensitivity. The study forthcoming in the Journal of Marketing is titled “Price No Object!: The Impact of Power…

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#Americans actively engaging in collectivism as financial buoy, experts say

“#Americans actively engaging in collectivism as financial buoy, experts say” Credit: CC0 Public Domain The economic effects of the coronavius in the U.S. have brought Americans’ preexisting financial precarity into stark focus. Karen Richman, University of Notre Dame director of undergraduate studies at the Institute for Latino Studies, and her colleague Joelle Saad-Lessler, associate teaching…

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#Industry concentration contributes to job quality erosion, wage stagnation

“#Industry concentration contributes to job quality erosion, wage stagnation” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Cratering job quality and weak wage growth in the U.S. have typically been attributed to a combination of technological change, waning worker bargaining power and increased pressures from trade and financial markets. But according to research co-written by a University of Illinois,…

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#Economists conclude opioid crisis responsible for millions of children living apart from parents

“#Economists conclude opioid crisis responsible for millions of children living apart from parents” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Nearly 500,000 people in the U.S. during the past 20 years have died from an opioid overdose. Millions of others—many of them parents—are using, incarcerated or in drug rehabilitation programs. While the drug crisis has had profound impacts…

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#COVID-19 is hitting tipped workers hard

“#COVID-19 is hitting tipped workers hard” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Even prior to COVID-19, tipped workers suffered from the inadequacies of the United States’ social safety net and minimum wage standards. The pandemic has exposed not only the inherent vulnerability of food service workers to a public health emergency but also how even government efforts…

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