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Wage
On the eve of COVID-19, the world of work was boasting record numbers in employment. Yet a record number of those people were also not being paid...
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Sexist Wage
Closing wage differentials between the minimum and the maximum, floor and ceiling, has yet to reverse unfair gendered wage differentials. This...
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Maximum Wage
Unlike the Minimum or Living wage, less scrutiny has been applied, in research and policy, to any wage ceiling – a Maximum wage. Yet just as minimum...
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Living Wage
Rising above bare subsistence wages, a Living Wage is a meaningful aspiration to many people. At the heart of a wage-wellbeing spectrum, it promises...
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Minimum Wage
Minimum wages were meant to protect people from sweated conditions and the brutality of unregulated employment sectors. But they have ended up being...
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Racist Wage
Extending discussion of wage differentials and inequalities, racist wages can be addressed through the lenses of geography and mobility. This chapter...
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Slavery Wage
The nadir for wage-related wellbeing, on the wage-wellbeing spectrum, is economic slavery. This chapter focuses on trafficked work and Slavery Wages....
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Workplace Sexual Harassment and Vulnerabilities among Low-Wage Hispanic Women
Workplace sexual harassment is particularly widespread in industries with many low-wage jobs where Hispanic women are likely to work. This...
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Felons Need Not Apply: The Tough-on-crime Era’s Felony Welfare Benefits Ban and its Impact on Families with a Formerly Incarcerated Parent
Although incarceration rates have begun to decline, the collateral consequences of mass incarceration persist, especially for families and...
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Low-wage Work Conditions and Mother–Infant Interaction Quality Across the Transition to Parenthood
The present investigation examined the relationship between workplace conditions and mother–infant interaction quality among 65 low-wage, employed...
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Why are they leaving? Understanding Associations between early childhood program policies and teacher turnover rates
BackgroundEarly childhood teachers play a key role in creating positive teacher-child relationships, which are shown to promote child outcomes....
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Policy Suite
Chapter 10 offers a set of interrelated Policy Briefs - a wage policy suite. Integrating preceding chapters, each brief identifies a core wage policy...
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Brief Report: The Benefits of an Employer-Based Work-Experience Program for Participants with ASD
An employer-based work-experience program run by a multinational organization temporarily employs people with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to...
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Effects of a 9-Month Military-Base Internship on the Competitive Integrated Employment of Military Dependent and Connected Youth with ASD
This waitlist-controlled cluster randomized clinical trial presents the results of PS + ASD for military dependent and connected youth with ASD....
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Gender Differences in Parental Leave Before and after the Introduction of a Paid Parental Leave Policy: A Sequence Analysis of Administrative Time-Kee** Records
Paid leave confers health benefits to new parents and their children, but the absence of a national paid family leave policy in the United States has...
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Well-Being
Wellbeing begins with physical health, to personal emotions, including freedom from financial worry, and out to social groups, work groups, and wider...
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Sustainable Livelihoods
Between 2012 and 2019, ‘jobs’ went from panacea for poverty to instrument of ill-being for most workers globally. In part the shift was due to...
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Is it ethical to use Mechanical Turk for behavioral research? Relevant data from a representative survey of MTurk participants and wages
To understand human behavior, social scientists need people and data. In the last decade, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) emerged as a flexible,...
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Pay Equity in Applied Behavior Analysis
Pay equity is the practice of minimizing employee wage inequalities based on gender, race, and other criteria. The goal of this practice is to ensure...