Saturday, December 5, 2015
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Are Women Less Driven to Seek Workplace Power if They Wield Power at Home?
When “mom’s the boss”: Control over domestic decision making reduces women’s interest in workplace power
Women aged 18–30 expressed less interest in seeking power in the workplace
if they were directed to envision themselves having authority over household
choices such as menus and furniture, rather than to imagine sharing such
decisions equally with a spouse (2.47 versus 2.77, on average, on a 1-to-5 interest scale), according to
a study by Melissa J. Williams of Emory University and Serena Chen of the
University of California, Berkeley. Women seem unaware that they experience
power as a tradeoff — that their enjoyment of household authority undermines
their motivation to seek power in the workplace, the researchers say.
if they were directed to envision themselves having authority over household
choices such as menus and furniture, rather than to imagine sharing such
decisions equally with a spouse (2.47 versus 2.77, on average, on a 1-to-5 interest scale), according to
a study by Melissa J. Williams of Emory University and Serena Chen of the
University of California, Berkeley. Women seem unaware that they experience
power as a tradeoff — that their enjoyment of household authority undermines
their motivation to seek power in the workplace, the researchers say.
Saturday, October 31, 2015
As the Number of Undocumented Workers Increases, Other Workers’ Wages Rise
The wage impact of undocumented workers: Evidence from administrative data - Hotchkiss - 2015 - Southern Economic Journal - Wiley Online Library
October 28, 2015
As the Number of Undocumented Workers Increases, Other Workers’ Wages Rise
Employees get an average wage boost of 0.44% for every 1 percentage point increase in the share of undocumented
workers in their county or industry and a 0.09% wage boost for every 1 percentage point rise in the
fraction of undocumented workers employed by their firm, says a team led by
Julie L. Hotchkiss of Georgia State University. Drawing on data from the U.S.
state of Georgia, the researchers say that an influx of undocumented, low-skill
workers appears to allow firms to reassign other employees to higher-skilled
and higher-paying jobs.
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