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An analysis found that industries with higher percentages of foreign-born workers had higher rates of wage theft, like the cut-and-sew garment industry.
Endeavoring Reddit user Dan Lin used data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to create a comprehensive chart of the average wage for nearly every job in America. Lin's chart is color-coded by ...
An executive order increasing the minimum wage for non-exempt employees working on specified types of federal contracts took effect January 30, 2022. However, recent wage determinations issued by ...
The new rule includes several more updates, including allowing for periodic updates to prevailing wage rates when out of date, including the use of government wage determinations and also for the ...
In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for raising the minimum wage, a proposal that's been heard before and that could affect millions of people.
This paper tests the hypothesis that mobility between jobs is an important determinant of individual wages and that econometric estimates of wage determination should correct for sample selectivity ...
Reddit user Dan Lin has uploaded a chart showing the mean-wage breakdown for every profession in America tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In some counties, for example, Davis-Bacon wage determinations are just one-third of market wages. In other counties, they are more than 75 percent above prevailing market wages.
Two non-nested models of union wage and employment determination are estimated using data on the International Woodworkers of America (IWA) and the British Columbia wood products industry. One model ...