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The Gender Wage Gap: 2011. by Ariane Hegewisch, Angela Edwards (September 2012). Institute for Women’s Policy Research “The ratio of womens and mens median annual earnings was 77.0 for full-time/year-round workers in 2011, essentially unchanged from 77.4 in 2010. (This means the gender wage gap for full-time/year-round workers is now 23 percent.) During the last …
News release: “Fidelity Investments® today outlined an easy-to-understand set of savings guidelines to help workers evaluate whether they are on track to meet their income needs in retirement based on their current savings. According to Fidelitys calculation, most employees should aim to save at least 8 times their ending salary in order to meet basic …
Black, Dirk E. and Gallemore, John, Bank Executive Overconfidence and Delayed Expected Loss Recognition (August 22, 2012). Available at SSRN “While prior work shows that delayed expected loan loss recognition is related to lending propensity (Beatty and Liao, 2011), bank risk (Bushman and Williams, 2011), and bank risk taking (Bushman and Williams, 2012), we provide …
Via LLRX.com – Tutorial Resources on the Internet – Marcus P. Zillman’s guide is a wide ranging and immediately useful listing of tutorial resources and sites on the Internet. This guide will assist you to discover, review and select the most relevant and reliable sources for your requirements, on topics that include: e-training, health sciences …
OCLC news release: “This report urges a collaborative approach for conversion of content on various types of digital media. Written by Senior Program Officer Ricky Erway, Swatting the Long Tail of Digital Media: A Call for Collaboration, is intended for managers who are making decisions on where to invest their born-digital time and money. It …
eMarketer – Users turn to Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter itself to post pictures. “As the number of Twitter users grows, consumers are using the site to share photos, videos and other links with their followers. eMarketer forecasts that US adult Twitter users will reach 31.8 million in 2013, up 14.9% from the 27.7 million users …
Big Data for Education: Data Mining, Data Analytics, and Web Dashboards, Darrell M. West “In this report, I examine the potential for improved research, evaluation, and accountability through data mining, data analytics, and web dashboards. So-called big data make it possible to mine learning information for insights regarding student performance and learning approaches.1 Rather than …
Why Do Women Still Earn Less Than Men? Analyzing the Search for High-paying Jobs “Why do women continue to earn less money than men — approximately 20% less, according to some estimates — and what can be done about it? At least half the pay gap reflects the fact that women tend to work in …
“In this study, Forrester developed a hypothesis that tested the need for automation, the issues raised by a tactical and punctual deployment of job scheduling solutions, and the benefits of a more strategic usage of enterprisewide workload automation. Key Findings Include: A majority of enterprises want a more efficient IT department Scattered efforts using ad …
News release: “Economic activity in the manufacturing sector contracted in August for the third time since July 2009; however, the overall economy grew for the 39th consecutive month, say the nation’s supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report On Business®. The report was issued today by Bradley J. Holcomb, CPSM, CPSD, chair of the …
Environmental Working Group: “Consumers can markedly reduce their intake of pesticide residues and their exposure to antibiotic-resistant bacteria by choosing organic produce and meat, according to researchers at Stanford University who reviewed a massive body of scientific studies on the much-debated issue. The Stanford team analyzed more than 230 field studies and 17 human studies …
Bullying Causing Some Workers to Experience Health Issues and Leave Their Jobs: “A new study by CareerBuilder finds the number of workers encountering bullies at the office is on the rise. Thirty-five percent of workers said they have felt bullied at work, up from 27 percent last year. Sixteen percent of these workers reported they …
