Mark Smith, Grenoble École de Management (GEM) and Maria Gribling, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
A range of pressures are forcing companies to consider being more open about pay structures, levels and gaps. What are the risks and potential benefits of being more transparent?
The poor continue to be drowned out by a global minority enjoying elite status.
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Refugee policy may well be a humanitarian issue. But it is also a development issue.
The global economy enables a wealthy elite to accumulate vast fortunes while hundreds of millions of people struggle to survive on low wages, according to an Oxfam report.
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The rich have to be taxed more and the poor need to be paid more, according to Oxfam International head of inequality policy Max Lawson.
Prince Edward Island ranks first in Canada’s Early Childhood Report 2017; Nunavut scores lowest, devoting only 0.9 per cent of its budget to early childhood education.
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Schools across Canada should ‘grow down’ and offer two years of full-day preschool, according to a new report. This would allow mothers to work, improve child outcomes and reduce income inequality.
The tech sector has long had a diversity problem.
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Amy Bhatt, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Dillon Mahmoudi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Amazon, like the entire tech sector, has suffered from a lack of diversity in its workforce. This trend is likely to continue when it opens a second headquarters in one of 20 cities.
Got a spare $250 million? If you’re among the 0.1 percent, you probably do.
Bruce Makowsky
Income inequality, the most common way to measure the gap between the rich and the poor, only tells part of the story. Wealth inequality tells the rest.
Marine One arrives in the Alps.
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Iran’s main opposition is loath to embrace a new wave of protesters. It may soon have no choice.
The incidence of poverty among people over 65 is decreasing in part because of increased labour force participation.
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President Trump released details of his tax plan, which would essentially benefit the wealthiest Americans by repealing the estate tax and other changes at the expense of the middle class.
The number of Australians with no savings has increased.
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If the gap between the wealth of the billionaires and that of the average residents continues to widen dramatically, there is likely to be discontent.
Having only a few people with most of the wealth, motivates others. This theory is actually wrong according to research.
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