News tagged with skilled workers
Microsoft offers computer training to unemployed
Apr 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. announced Monday it would be giving away more than 30,000 vouchers over the next 90 days to help unemployed people in Washington state get new computer skills.
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21,000 Victorians suffer from work-related depression
Jun 01, 2008 |
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Almost one in six cases of depression among working Victorians are caused by job stress. This means more than 21,000 cases of preventable depression are caused by job stress each year, a new University of Melbourne study ...
Inexperienced prostitutes most at risk of sexual infections
Dec 12, 2008 |
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Less experienced prostitutes are more likely to have sexually transmitted infections (STIs). A study of more than a thousand female sex workers in Cambodia, reported in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases, has sh ...
Changes in work force, not pay, narrowing the gender wage gap
Aug 12, 2008 |
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The apparent narrowing of the wage gap between working men and women in the last 30 years reflects changes in the type of women in the workforce, rather than in how much they're being paid, according to groundbreaking new ...
Study: 2 million babies and mothers die at birth
Oct 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- More than 2 million babies and mothers die worldwide each year from childbirth complications, outnumbering child deaths from malaria and HIV/AIDS, according to a study.
City dwellers bear disproportionate federal tax burden
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Live in an expensive city? Think you pay too much in federal taxes? If so, a study in the current issue of the Journal of Political Economy finds that you're exactly right.
When 'Don't Worry' Leads to Worry
Aug 13, 2007 |
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When a company makes a commitment to avoid layoffs, it would be reasonable to expect that workers would feel more secure about their future. It turns out that's not true for everyone. In research presented at the American ...
Redundancy Reduces Birth Rates of Highly-Skilled: Losing a Job Can Ruin Plans to Start a Family
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Aug 17, 2009 |
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Highly skilled women who have lost their job tend not to realise their plans to start a family. This is the clear finding of a major study conducted by the University of Linz with support from the Austrian Science Fund FWF. ...
Older workers spend less on necessities and health care
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Oct 21, 2009 |
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More older Americans are choosing to continue to work or are returning to the labor force. The number of workers age 65 and older is predicted to increase by more than 80 percent by 2016. In an ongoing study, ...
Prototyping with industrial robots
Nov 10, 2008 |
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Ship's propellers, parts for wind energy converters, turbine housings – such large-volume castings can only be produced with special molds. The procedure is elaborate and cost-intensive because foundry workers ...
Permanent admissions are better for US high-tech workforce than H-1B expansion
Mar 24, 2006 |
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Despite numerous government reports pointing out major flaws and weaknesses of the H-1B visa program, Congress is considering increasing the annual H-1B visa cap by at least 50,000 without strengthening safeguards to protect ...
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