The people who participate in an economy by undertaking paid work. The collective workforce in an economy.
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Is CEO the "profession" with the most psychopaths?
An opinion article in Time has this subheading:
CEO is the profession with the most psychopaths.
This may have been added by a headline editor though, because the article body doesn't flesh out the fact that well, besides this (ordered?)…
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Has there been a dramatic expansion of the U.S. federal workforce in recent years?
This claim was used by the White House to justify an executive action that can affect the operations of a wide range of federal government agencies.
In his first official White House press briefing on January 23, 2017, U.S. Press Secretary Sean…
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Are recent Southwest Airlines' operational problems caused by employees rejecting a vaccination mandate?
As Southwest Airlines faces a fourth day of canceled flights and other disruptions, claims have emerged -- largely in conservative media and social media circles -- that the company's problems are caused by workers staging a sickout in protest of a…
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Has immigration from Eastern Europe impacted UK youth unemployment?
MigrationWatch UK is a think-tank that argues for lower immigration levels into the UK.
In a 2012 Briefing Paper they claimed:
Youth unemployment in the UK increased by almost 450,000 in the
period from 2004 Q1 to 2011 Q3, from 575,000 to…
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Is non-union labor more productive than union labor?
A claim was made today by an equipment manufacturing industry representative that in the last 10 years Non-Union labor had far out paced Union labor in productivity gains and that Non-Union Shops where now significantly more productive than Union…
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Do most economists consider lump of labor to be a fallacy?
As an economist in training, it is my understanding that the idea that there is a fixed amount of work is considered a fallacy by most economists. For example, when Paul Krugman discusses it, he merely states "Economists call it the 'lump of labor…
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Has freedom of movement of people lead to a reduction in wages and worsening of working conditions in the UK?
Has freedom of movement of people lead to a reduction of wages, and a worsening of working conditions, in the UK?
From 'If you've got money, you vote in ... if you haven't got money, you vote out'
A few years later, we met builders in South Shields…
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Does the Uzbekistan government force children to perfom slave labor harvesting cotton?
A family member posted a link to a blog about companies using slave labor.
While the title is a bit misleading because it is not the companies themselves directly employing slave labor but rather their suppliers in foreign countries. Most of the…
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Were South Korean workers forcibly injected with amphetamines?
In a biographical article about the life of Jeon Tae-il, Wikipedia states that
As a tailor, Jeon witnessed the horrendous working conditions in the
Seoul Peace Market... Such conditions included rampant tuberculosis...
and the enforced injections…
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Are there fewer Americans in the labor force than in 1979?
Just wondering if this claim is true,
Picture reads,
There are fewer AMERICANS in the labor force today than anytime since 1979!! LIKE and SHARE this if Americans need more OPPORTUNITY!
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Is South Africa the "protest capital of the world?"
If you’re South African, you often hear that “South Africa is the world’s protest capital”. There’s even a Wikipedia page that begins with this line. The origin of this statement, as far as I can tell, is from this 2010 article, with a flurry of…
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Do long working hours in Spain affect birth rate?
According to "Spain appoints 'minister for sex' to reverse nation's plummeting birth rate":
Experts say long working hours and a culture of eating late at night and going to bed after midnight are partly to blame for the nation’s sex famine.
Rafael…
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