This meta-analytic study systematically investigates the relations between perceived
racial/ethnic discrimination and socioemotional distress, academics, and risky health …

Climate change and increasing income inequality have emerged as twin threats to
contemporary standards of living, peace and democracy. These two problems are usually …

Human capital theory assumes that education determines the marginal productivity of labour
and this determines earnings. Since the 1960s, it has dominated the economics, and policy …

Employment relations in advanced, post-industrial democracies have become increasingly
insecure and uncertain as the risks associated with work are being shifted from employers …

In the last half century higher education has moved from the fringe to the centre of society
and accumulated a long list of functions. In the English-speaking world, Europe and much of …

The economic boom of the 1990s veiled a grim reality: in addition to the growing gap
between rich and poor, the gap between good and bad quality jobs was also expanding …

Many studies have shown that women pay a wage penalty for motherhood, whereas men
earn a wage premium for fatherhood. A few recent studies have used quantile regression to …

From 1973 to 2007, private sector union membership in the United States declined from 34
to 8 percent for men and from 16 to 6 percent for women. During this period, inequality in …

The growth of precarious work since the 1970s has emerged as a core contemporary
concern within politics, in the media, and among researchers. Uncertain and unpredictable …

0Today the only thing big about “Big Labor” is its problems. By the early 1970s, or ga nized
labor had already begun its decades-long decline, but still nearly a quarter of all private …