Two significant rulings by the National Labor Relations Board in 2015 expanded the longstanding interpretation of “joint employment,” a designation given when two firms are involved in directing, controlling, training and supervising …
The practice of tipping restaurant servers and bartenders is under attack. Some academics and pundits want to abolish tipping and replace the practice with a higher minimum hourly wage or a so-called …
In 2016, millions of professional and salaried American workers will be effectively reclassified as hourly workers and eligible for mandatory overtime pay due to a change in U.S. Department of Labor regulations. While …
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and New York State have all taken steps to establish a $15 an hour minimum wage. However, a $15 minimum wage will do far less to raise …
Women’s labor force participation rate (LFPR) — the percentage of individuals employed or looking for work — reached an all-time high of 60 percent in 1999, but since then has steadily declined to 57.2 percent in 2012.
The single most important economic and sociological change in our society in the past 60 years has been the entry of women into the labor market…
Capitalism and democracy are both known to improve the well-being of women. But which is more important? The social welfare of both men and women can be measured by health, education and employment, and the well-being of women in particular by gender-specific indicators, such as control of fertility. Poor countries generally rank lower than developed countries on all these social metrics, but they can implement public policies to improve conditions.
Careful studies have shown that the greatest degree of inequality exists among senior citizens, and the single most important cause of that inequality is not differences in preretirement income but differences in the degree to which people with the same income save rather than consume.
This paper analyzes the differential impact on the two genders of pension reforms in Chile, Argentina and Mexico, which have adopted systems in which social security benefits are primarily financed by mandatory savings in individual accounts.
Tuesday, April 16, 2002, is Equal Pay Day – the day on which many organizations protest wage discrimination between men and women. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median income for all women is about three-quarters that of men, although the results vary significantly among demographic groups. Feminist organizations and some politicians point to these statistics as evidence of the United States as a patriarchal society that discriminates against women. But a closer examination leads to a different conclusion.
Contrary to the expectations of many welfare reform critics, most of the women heading these families went to work. In fact, the proportion of single mothers who work has increased dramatically since welfare reform, nearly matching the proportion leaving welfare.
Largely for historical reasons, the American tax system is disconnected with the way women participate in the economy. The major elements of the tax system were put in place in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, when most women, certainly most mothers, were not in the workforce.