experience of using the minimum wage system‚ enable they deliberated on this issue in Hong Kong. And early 2000s in Hong Kong‚ most of the lower class and low-skilled industries are in low level of wage‚ therefore some people in society had some opinion to The Legislative Council relating to statutory minimum wage‚ as a way to protect blue collar of life. In 2006-2007 Policy Address‚ protecting labour rights is one of the highlights‚ the Government launch a Wage Protection Movement for employees
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IQ TEST RESEARCH A Research of the Reliability and Validity of the PSYGAT on Different Linguistic Backgrounds Abstract The issue of cultural bias in intelligence tests sparks debates every time the latter is created or administered‚ resulting to many researches into how the reliability and validity of an ability test may differ when assessed on groups from different cultural-linguistic backgrounds. The aim of this study is to test the reliability and validity of the PSYGAT Verbal IQ Test on
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The Wage Gap in America The wage gap is a serious problem that has consequences for women in America‚ our two parent families and our single mom households. The government tries to reduce the wage gap between men and women’s earnings and tries to make sure that women’s talents are properly used and rewarded. A lot has been done to relive the wage gap in the past fifty years‚ but it still is not enough. Women can do things on their own to help close the wage gap. They can get a non-traditional
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Why Wages Rise F. A. HARPER THE FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION‚ INC. IRVINGTON-ON-HUDSON‚ N E W YORK 1957 Copyright 1957 by F. A. HARPER Permission to reproduce from this book‚ without special request‚ is hereby granted by both the author and publisher. Information about uses will be appreciated. Library of Congress Catalogue Card No.: 57-6929. PRINTED IN U.S.A. Contents Page INTRODUCTION 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. LABOR UNIONS PRODUCTIVITY DIVIDING T H E P I E TOOLS
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“With a high wage maybe I’d be able to move out of my father’s house. Maybe I could get off food stamps. Maybe I could start giving back to the economy‚” says Tenesha Hueston in “Working Poor in America” a report by Oxfam America. Hueston is a single mother of 4 and works at a fast food restaurant as a manager. However‚ she is only gaining $7.75 an hour. It’s embarrassingly sad how America does nothing to make minimum wage workers ascend with the cost of living. Therefore no upward mobility is being
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(1) Bias by commission which is‚ “a pattern of passing along assumptions or error that tend to support a left-wing or liberal view.” (2) Bias by omission which is “ignoring facts that tend to disprove liberal or left-wing claims‚ or that support conservative beliefs.” (3) Bias by story selection which is “a pattern of highlighting new stories that coincide with the agenda of the Left while ignoring stores that coincide with the agenda of the Right.” (4) Bias by placement which is
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Bias is putting across an unfair or one sided opinion. If you had to write a fair and true story of a hockey game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings you would have to describe exactly happened. VS. “The Leafs were so lucky on Saturday. The superb and skillful Wings players were beaten by the lucky‚ cheating Leafs players. The referee was totally biased. He allowed five goals that were all offside. I have never seen so much luck and cheating.” This story of a hockey
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| Gender Wage Discrimination in Pakistan | Evidence from Pakistan 2008/09 and 2010/11 | | | | Table of Contents Introduction 2 Literature Review 2 Methodology 3 Variables Used – Characteristics of Workers 5 Results 7 Discussion 7 Bibliography 8 Appendix A 9 Selectivity Bias Logit Regression Results: 9 Introduction This paper explores the dynamics of gender wage discrimination in Pakistan for two data sets; Labour Force Survey for the year 2008/09 and 2010/11
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2014 Media Bias Covering our World There are many types of media bias that we see daily; if we turn on our computers‚ read our newspapers‚ or even watch the news stations on television‚ you will see some sort of bias. The types of bias change from station to station and from town to town depending on their views and culture background. The types of bias raiding our media are bias by omission‚ bias by selection of sources‚ bias by story selection‚ bias by placement‚ bias by labeling‚ and bias by spin
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LOW WAGE WORK What most Americans don’t know is that many of the workers keeping our nation pulsating are paid low wages‚ earning barely enough to afford essentials like food‚ health care‚ utilities and rent. Most of these low-wage contract workers are clustered in sectors and industries like apparel manufacturing‚ retail trade‚ basic construction‚ facilities support‚ security services‚ and education. There are over forty million jobs in the United States and one out of three pays their employees
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