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Released: 11-Sep-2020 2:10 PM EDT
Latest poverty statistics: U-M experts can discuss
University of Michigan

University of Michigan experts are available to discuss the U.S. Census Bureau's 2019 report on poverty and income statistics, to be released Sept. 15.

Released: 11-Sep-2020 8:30 AM EDT
Practice Does Not Necessarily Make Perfect When It Comes to Creativity
Stanford Graduate School of Business

If you’re a relentlessly upbeat thinker, you may be enamored of the 10,000-hour rule, which holds that if you simply practice something regularly for a long enough time, you’ll eventually achieve mastery.

   
Released: 10-Sep-2020 5:35 PM EDT
A menu for restaurant survival during the pandemic
University of Delaware

The University of Delaware's Timothy Webb can talk about potential strategies restaurant owners can use to segment the market, account for government restrictions and potentially match pre-COVID dine-in revenue totals.

Released: 10-Sep-2020 1:50 PM EDT
Nominations Still Accepted for AIP’s 2020 Tate Medal for International Leadership
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

The American Institute of Physics is still accepting nominations for the 2020 John Torrence Tate Medal for International Leadership in Physics. The deadline to apply is Oct. 1, 2020. The medal was established in 1959 and is awarded every two years to non-U.S. citizens for their leadership, research contributions and service to the international physics community. The award consists of a certificate of recognition, a bronze medal, and a $10,000 prize.

Released: 10-Sep-2020 10:05 AM EDT
Safety-Net Clinicians’ Caseloads Received Reduced Merit-Based Incentive Payment Scores
Saint Louis University Medical Center

A team of researchers led by Kenton Johnston, Ph.D., an associate professor of health management and policy at Saint Louis University’s College for Public Health and Social Justice, conducted a study to investigate how outpatient clinicians that treated disproportionately high caseloads of socially at-risk Medicare patients (safety-net clinicians) performed under Medicare’s new mandatory Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).

Released: 10-Sep-2020 8:45 AM EDT
Cash Transfers More Effective than Workforce Training in Improving Lives of Rwandans
University of California San Diego

In the head-to-head comparison of a workforce-training program and direct cash transfers for Rwandans, cash proves superior in improving economic outcomes of unemployed youths, while training outperforms cash only in the production of business knowledge, according to a new University of California San Diego study.

   
Released: 9-Sep-2020 5:05 PM EDT
For Job Seekers with Disabilities, Soft Skills Don’t Impress in Early Interviews
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

A new study by Rutgers University researchers finds that job candidates with disabilities are more likely to make a positive first impression on prospective employers when they promote technical skills rather than soft skills, such as their ability to lead others.

Released: 9-Sep-2020 12:30 PM EDT
Rethinking business: Disruptions like the corona crisis also create new opportunities
University of Cologne

Changes in the external environment always affect the success of companies and may even tilt previously valid laws of business off balance.

Released: 9-Sep-2020 9:00 AM EDT
Study: Exploited San Francisco Workers are "Suffering Silently"
Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR)

Many of the city's most vulnerable workers are too afraid to file a complaint when their employer pays them below the minimum wage. Domestic workers are the biggest victims. Bar and restaurant employees are also high on the list.

Released: 9-Sep-2020 9:00 AM EDT
Mapping the Good and the Bad of Pandemic-Related Restrictions
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Pandemics bring pain. But so do the prescriptions for containing them: From school closures to total lockdowns, every government-mandated approach to blunting the impact of COVID-19 involves a trade-off between lives saved and jobs lost.

   
Released: 9-Sep-2020 9:00 AM EDT
Craftier Than Cash: How Banks Use Credit Cards to Bribe Bureaucrats
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Bribery doesn’t necessarily involve suitcases of cash, all-expense-paid vacations, or secret gifts of jewelry. For people who don’t want to get caught, subtlety can be more practical.

   
Released: 9-Sep-2020 9:00 AM EDT
Study: Wage Theft Runs Rampant During Recessions
Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR)

Employers are more likely to cheat their workers during periods of high unemployment. It happened during the Great Recession of 2008. It's even more likely during the COVID recession, in part because of President Trump's recent executive order relaxing enforcement.

Released: 8-Sep-2020 6:20 PM EDT
Saint Louis University Research Finds Clinicians Affiliated with Health Systems Perform Better Under Medicare Value-Based Reimbursement
Saint Louis University

A team of researchers led by Kenton Johnston, Ph.D., an associate professor of health management and policy at Saint Louis University’s College for Public Health and Social Justice, conducted a study investigating the association between health system affiliations of clinicians and their performance scores and payments under Medicare value-based reimbursement. The findings were published online Sept. 8 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Released: 8-Sep-2020 1:45 PM EDT
3 Essentials to a More Inclusive Hiring Process
University of Virginia Darden School of Business

Diversity, equity and inclusion are imperative. How can companies — and the individuals in them — ensure the kind of inclusive hiring practices that will lead to a genuinely equitable and diverse culture? Darden Professor Toni Irving discusses problems and solutions for hiring and developing diverse talent.

Released: 8-Sep-2020 1:15 PM EDT
COVID-19 Deaths Among Black Essential Workers Linked to Racial Disparities
University of Utah Health

Racial disparities among essential workers could be a key reason that Black Americans are more likely than whites to contract and die of COVID-19, according to researchers at the University of Utah. They found that Blacks disproportionately worked in nine vital occupations that increase their exposure to SARs-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

   
Released: 8-Sep-2020 9:05 AM EDT
Proposed Medicare Cuts Threaten Anesthesiology Practices Already Struggling Amid Pandemic
American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)

Medicare has proposed drastic cuts to its payment rates for important health care services, threatening the practices of physician anesthesiologists who have been on the front lines of the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) opposes these detrimental payment reductions, and urges Congress to take action to override the budget neutrality requirements that are the cause for these cuts and thereby ensure physician anesthesiologists can continue to care for their patients while being more fairly compensated for their work.

Released: 3-Sep-2020 4:45 PM EDT
Researchers say job candidates are rated lower in virtual interviews
Missouri University of Science and Technology

New research provides some of the first solid evidence that people who watch a virtual job interview rate the candidate substantially lower than those who watch the same interview in person.Researchers at Missouri S&T published a study with their findings in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction called “Just Sit Back and Watch: Large Disparities between Video and Face-to-face Interview Observers in Applicant Ratings.

Released: 3-Sep-2020 1:05 PM EDT
Abordar el acoso sexual exige un compromiso institucional y una cultura fundamentada en valores
Mayo Clinic

El acoso sexual en el ambiente laboral no es ningún fenómeno nuevo ni raro, pero desde cuando empezó el movimiento #MeToo a finales del año 2017, han aparecido más víctimas que informan sobre supuestos acosos en el trabajo, incluso en instituciones de atención médica.



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