Following a 30-year boy-to-girl birth rate imbalance, up to 800,000 ‘extra’ men born since the mid-1980s will be unable to find a South Korean woman to marry. That has big demographic consequences.
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China has a lot of vacant retail space, including many underused shopping malls. An urban policy scholar describes how the Chinese are rethinking what the mall is for.
A legal scholar argues that assigning a designated contrarian and rotating this role over time will help nonprofit boards resist the dangerous pull toward passivity and deference.
Better training and supervision make younger workers less vulnerable to injuries.
Two labor scholars argue that the balance of power between workers and employers, which has been tilted toward employers for nearly a half-century, is beginning to shift.
The history of whiskey is one of perception, not necessarily quality.
Water shortages are one of the greatest problems created by a warming world. A decentralized water system is a compelling counterargument to the notion that bigger is better.
Two and a half centuries later, some things haven’t changed.
Shoplifting has been hyped as a driver of chain-store closures, but did these companies ever really understand urban environments in the first place?
More autocratic governments, growing urbanization and emerging technologies will bolster the spread of Chinese influence around the world, an expert on emerging economies explains.
Rethinking seasonal workers’ roles would help parcel delivery companies save time and money − and boost morale, too.
Presents are about giving, receiving and reciprocating, and how this cycle strengthens relationships.
Many of the Americans getting this debt relief are nurses, teachers, first responders, Peace Corps volunteers and social workers.
Do you dread delivering or receiving feedback at work? Two organizational behavior experts describe a better way to have these difficult conversations.
The spirit of the season is free, but that tree is going to cost you.
The board is supposed to stop OpenAI from veering from its mission of building technology that benefits humanity.
Industry is a leading climate polluter: Our road map shows what’s needed to cut industrial emissions in fast-growing countries.
Only a small fraction of women have received any financial education at all.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell bristles at talk of managing climate change, but the damage it is doing the US economy is hard to ignore, as the latest National Climate Assessment shows.
Questions about food insecurity can be less straightforward than they appear.
Wooing those workers will be expensive and require a lot of creativity, since many of them are employed in ‘right-to-work’ states.
When it comes to gentrification, Philadelphia baristas say they’re ‘part of the problem.’ But as low-wage workers, where else should they live and work?
Loyalty schemes tend to be the most generous when the economy has hit a patch of turbulence.
The JFK assassination was a landmark event in TV news history.
Of course the NFL is embracing Taylor Swift.