A mathematical model analyzes incentives underlying surge-pricing schemes
Improving the search for contractors that don’t use coercion
Experienced hands help new business lines find their way
Analysis also suggests a more rapid economic recovery by keeping workers and employers allied
Top companies hog the best talent, adding to their competitive advantage
Steady employment is rare — a condition some U.S. workers also endure
New research suggests increased risk of illness and death in middle age, on top of longer-lasting income penalty
Labor’s losses to capital, much studied, aren’t quite as grim when stock and options are tabulated
Industrial laundry gains 4% output; better health and better feelings toward employer could account for increase
With a business model built on fewer employees, their dominance saps dynamism.
Payroll data allows researchers to finally build an accurate and meaningful measurement
Amid the pandemic, price gouging and stiffing of suppliers and workers surged
Caribbean plantation owners, faced with slavery’s end, enacted legal barriers to employment elsewhere
19th-century French cotton mills suggest halting, uneven progress
It’s generally a positive in both cultures, but buy-in is more tentative in China