A large body of literature has documented the effects of work scheduling practices, such as nonstandard shifts, long work hours, and unpredictable schedules, on worker and family well-being.
Many working parents in the United States are employed in jobs that expose them to challenging working conditions, including low wages, limited benefits, and unstable and unpredictable work schedules.
The H-1B program lets firms hire high-skill foreign workers for a six-year term.
Publicly launched in 2004, the Google Books project has scanned tens of millions of items in partnership with libraries around the world.
Current policy debate often assumes that large employers offer health insurance to their workers.
States and localities have passed labor standards to raise the floor on job quality, including mandating employer provision of paid sick leave (PSL).
How fraud in a published paper about honesty roiled the world of social science. In 2012 Max Bazerman, along with four coauthors, published an influential paper showing that “signing first”—that is,
This databook presents fourteen indicators of population, income, poverty, labor, housing, and education for Indian reservations in the Lower 48 states in the US from 1990 to 2020.
There is an urgent need for scalable mental health interventions, particularly for workers in under-resourced settings who experience high stress and limited access to mental health resources.
In the absence of a federal paid sick leave (PSL) standard, numerous U.S. states have passed laws to provide workers access to such benefits.
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