This issue brief looks at the most recent national data available to examine the impact that being in or represented by a union has on the wages and benefits of women in the paid workforce. Even after controlling for factors such as age, race, industry, educational attainment and state of...

In this report, we review the most recent data available to examine the impact of unionization on the wages and benefits paid to black workers. These data show that even after controlling for factors such as age and education level, unionization has a significant positive impact on black...

This paper provides a summary assessment of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on the state of financial integration in the region, with inputs from the Asian Development Bank regional technical assistance project Combined Studies on Assessing the Financial Landscape and...

This article reflects the interdependence between the migration phenomenon of our country's population and the phenomena carried in the overall human development of the Republic of Moldova, and the consequences of migration on the social and economic development at the macro-level, separately....

The well-being of a person is reflected in the language used. Building on 1,400 letters written by three famous music composers, I obtain well-being indices that span their lifetime. The validity of this methodology is shown by linking the indices with biographical information and through...

In this paper we tried to identify the behavior related to contemporary social protection systems, taking into account the socio - demographic community in a time of economic – financial crisis. We analyzed each of the four identified social protection systems and we determined their positive...