WEBBetween 1976 and 1996, the number of governments viewing their population growth rate as too high increased from 55 to 87. By launching a nationwide policy of limiting each couple to only one child, China, of course, established an unprecedented level of government control of births.”.
Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of …
WEBAbstract. In this essay, I begin by identifying the reasons that automation has not wiped out a majority of jobs over the decades and centuries. Automation does indeed substitute for labor—as it is typically intended to do.
The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
WEBUsing Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) microdata over the 1980-2010 period, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender wage gap, which declined considerably during this time.
Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election
WEBFollowing the 2016 US presidential election, many have expressed concern about the effects of false stories ("fake news"), circulated largely through social media. We discuss the economics of fake news and present new data on its consumption prior to the election.
WEBAmong Americans 20–64 years of age with a high school education or less, full days worked from home account for 20 percent of all paid workdays. The corresponding figure is 26 percent for those with some college, 34 percent for those with a four-year college degree, and 36 percent for persons.
WEBSuch new tasks generate not only a positive productivity effect, but also a reinstatement effect—they reinstate labor into a broader range of tasks and thus change the task content of production in favor of labor.1 The reinstatement effect is the polar opposite of the displacement effect and directly increases the labor share as well as labor de...
Maltreatment and disabilities: a population-based ... - PubMed
WEBAbstract. Objectives: To assess the prevalence of abuse and neglect among a population of children identified as a function of an existing disability, relate specific types of disabilities to specific types of abuse, and to determine the effect of abuse and neglect on academic achievement and attendance rates for children with and without ...
WEBgender roles. Opponents often warn that family policies may become a long-term hindrance to women’s careers because of the loss of work experience and the higher costs to employers that hire women of childbearing age. Understanding the causal impact of family policies on gender outcomes has faced two main challenges.
A hyperbranched polymer elastomer-based pressure sensitive …
WEBFormation of pressure sensitive adhesives (PSAs) with instant tough adhesion to diverse materials under harsh conditions remains a huge challenge. Here, we report a versatile strategy for designing a hyperbranched polymer elastomer PSA by one-pot polymerization of thioctic acid and multi-vinyl monomers in th.
Tetrahedron | Vol 72, Issue 10, Pages 1257-1422 (10 March …
WEBRead the latest articles of Tetrahedron at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature.
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