Employment Outlook: Clouded

OECD Employment Outlook 2008

Despite some progress, there is still evidence of discrimination on the grounds of gender and ethnic or racial origins in OECD labour markets. Field experiments show pervasive ethnic discrimination in many countries. Indirect evidence shows that on average at least 8% of the gender employment gap and a larger proportion of the gender wage gap can be attributed to discrimination. Virtually all O...

OECD Employment Outlook

Outlook Toward Equity and Employment An Employment - Centered Social Policy ◆

Robert Haveman is John Bascom Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and former director of the La Follette Institute of Public Affairs. On leave for the academic year 1996-97 at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, Professor Haveman was engaged in research on issues of human capital utilization and the determinants of children's attainments. Th...

Employment based health benefits: trends and outlook.

Clouded Issues for PHACTR1

I have read with interest the recent paper by Han and coworkers on the putative effects of a PHACTR1 variant in the context of coronary artery disease. The authors conclude to a significant risk-enhancing role of rs12526453 on the grounds of 19 earlier case-control studies.