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What happens to hiring when workers become harder to find? Mario Bossler (@NurembergTech) & Martin Popp (@iab_news) examine how tight labor markets, recruitment costs & worker reallocation shape firms’ labor demand in Germany.
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What happens when racial myths about “laziness” are given an economic explanation? A new #ILRReview by Darity, Jr., Durfee, Hamilton, L. Myers, Jr., N. Price, and Xu revisits race, work effort, and wage inequality.
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ALT Clock reflected on a desk, representing time, work, and measurement. Photo by ryu _ on Unsplash.
John Kallas, Assistant Professor at @IllinoisLER, examines how LGBTQIA+ Starbucks workers turned identity, lived experience, and shared workplace concerns into #union power.
Based on 53 interviews.
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Young workers aren’t waiting for the future of labor. They’re organizing it. New in ILR Review: @_ericblanc (Rutgers) examines the 2021–2024 union uptick and what’s driving young-worker organizing.
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Back to campus 🎓 What happens when you graduate into a recession? Anstreicher (Nebraska–Lincoln) & Lois Miller (South Carolina) explore how college quality shapes recession scarring in #ILRReview. 🔓 August issue is #OpenAccess: journals.sagepub.com/toc/ilr…
Can raising the minimum wage narrow wage inequality?A new @ILRReview study by Francine D. Blau, Isaac Cohen, Matthew Comey, Lawrence M. Kahn, & Nikolai Boboshko examines four decades of U.S. evidence.📖 doi.org/10.1177/001979392614…#LaborEconomics�
Why do we tip, and what determines how much? Service quality explains only about 5% of differences in tip amounts. What explains the rest?
@RU_SMLR’s Michael C. Sturman reviews Michael Lynn’s The Psychology of Tipping.
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