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...surely will--there isn't a lot Washington can do to encourage employers to hand out more raises. Cost pressures will be so intense during the next expansion, business experts say, that companies are likely to stick to their guns. They will outsource more work--including skilled and white-collar tasks--to cheaper labor markets. They will embrace pay-for-performance schemes, which generally reward only the top-ranked workers at each wage level. And they will shift more of the costs and risks of illness and retirement to workers, especially in steel and other heavy industries...
...Percentage of middle-aged white-collar workers who say that after losing their job, they had to switch industries to land...
...combined with falling prices for international calls, has allowed telemarketers to move call centers to countries where more pliant employees line up for such work. "In the U.S., to work in a call center is not a very glorifying job," but in countries such as India and Mexico, the white-collar environment and relatively high wages have job applicants lining up, says Robert Fabro, president of Hispanic Call Centers, which oversees phone banks in 62 countries and specializes in reaching immigrant populations...
Meanwhile, pompous Widener and gray MIT—and the brains they attracted—had come to dominate the white-collar, high-tech industries that filled Cambridge...
...only indicator where females perform worse" than males, says Andrea Ichino, an economics professor at the European University in Florence, citing women's health issues and family commitments as possible reasons. And statistics reveal that manual workers are more likely to be absent from work than their white-collar counterparts, thanks to injurious working conditions and lack of economic incentives. Unfortunately, some strategies to verify illness have made the absenteeism issue more opaque. In Belgium, citizens who want to take time off sick present employers with an easy-to-obtain medical certificate which specifies how long they will...