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Credit: National Review: Work Conditions & Discrimination among Pregnant & Parent Workers in Australia Evidence & Insights Report (2024). A report exploring the working conditions of pregnant employees and parents has been released today, calling for major changes in Australian workplaces to counter the "vast discrimination and disadvantage" experienced by these groups. …

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Access to reproductive health care—and abortion in particular—is an issue that resonates with voters' deeply held personal beliefs and reflects their underlying moral, philosophical, and religious views. But is it also an economic issue? Since the 2022 Dobbs decision, 21 states have banned or severely restricted access to…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Considerable research has been devoted to studying gender bias in the physical workplace, especially in the fields of management and economics. Within online platforms, however, gender biases and how they manifest have received far less attention. There are some exceptions, including operational outcomes such as hiring,…

A variety of generic pills and capsules. Nenov | Moment | Getty ImagesThe Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday said it is examining the role that drug wholesalers and companies that purchase medicines for U.S. health-care providers play in shortages of generic drugs, which account for the majority of Americans' prescriptions.The move follows an unprecedented shortfall of crucial medicine ranging from injectable cancer therapies to generics, or cheaper versions of brand-name medicines, over the last year, which has forced…

Effect of U.K. Tax Reform on U.K. Presence in Sub-Saharan Africa. Notes: This figure displays the coefficient estimates and 95% confidence intervals for event study regressions estimating the difference in the natural logarithm of the number of U.K. multinational subsidiaries as com- pared to non-U.K. multinational firms over time relative to the year 2009. The specifications are based on the model presented in Panel (A) Column (1) of Table 2 and…

The government is examining foreign direct investment from China in Paytm Payments Services Ltd (PPSL), the payment aggregator subsidiary of One97 Communications Ltd, sources said. In November 2020, PPSL had applied for licence with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to operate as a payment aggregator under the guidelines on Regulation of Payment Aggregators and Payment Gateways. However, in November 2022, RBI rejected PPSL's application and asked the company to resubmit it, so as to comply with Press Note 3 under FDI rules.…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Math anxiety, which can begin as early as kindergarten, negatively affects students' math performance both in the moment and throughout their math education. Most research focuses on the affective or physiological aspects of math anxiety—the feeling of your palms sweating or the sense that your heart is racing. But, as University of Delaware Associate Professor Jessica Namkung has shown, it's much more…

A cautionary note on how NLP papers are drawing proportionally less from other fields over time“The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymus Bosch (ca. 1490–1510). This triptych, painted in the early 16th century, is renowned for its complex and imaginative imagery, interpreted in various ways, including as a representation of the intermingling of diverse ideas and entities.Natural Language Processing (NLP) is poised to substantially influence the world. However, significant progress comes hand-in-hand with substantial…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain International sporting events like the football world cup or the aquatics championships rely heavily on media coverage to capture the action and share it with the world. But what about the experience of the journalists who bring these stories to life? A study in the International Journal of Sport Management and…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a recent study centered on China's primary social shopping community, researchers shed light on the factors influencing the growth of the follower networks of content creators. The empirical study, published in the International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, focuses on the role of social media likes in this process, revealing intriguing insights pertinent to the content…