Less pay means empty jobs

Wages and Gender Composition: Why do Women's Jobs Pay Less?

Wages and Gender Composition: Why do Women's Jobs Pay Less? Author(s): David A. Macpherson and Barry T. Hirsch Reviewed work(s): Source: Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Jul., 1995), pp. 426-471 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Society of Labor Economists and the NORC at the University of Chicago Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2535151 . Accessed...

Less is more: compact genomes pay dividends.

In 1993, Sydney Brenner, like many others, recognized that vertebrates are distinct in their morphology and development and that access to the complete sequence of a vertebrate genome would yield valuable insights into the biology of higher species not obtainable from genome studies of yeast, fly, or even the nematode. Moreover, at that time it was not possible, through sequencing technology, t...

A look at pay for high-pressure jobs.

Looking for jobs with good pay and good working conditions

In perfectly competitive labour markets, there is a market for non-material job amenities in which workers’ willingness to pay for these goods implies that workers accept compensating wage differentials, such that jobs with better working conditions should have lower wages. In labour market characterised by frictions, workers’ wages typically depend also on firm productivity. However many job c...

Metastatic pancreatic cancer 2008: is the glass less empty?

Pancreatic cancer is the fourth most common cause of adult cancer death in the U.S. The high mortality rate from pancreatic cancer is a result of the high incidence of metastatic disease at the time of diagnosis, an often fulminant clinical course, and the lack of adequate systemic therapies. Unfortunately, only 5%-25% of patients present with tumors amenable to resection. The median disease-fr...