The purpose of this paper is to provide a gender entrepreneurship slant to the revolving landscape in the 'culinary underbelly'. The primary aim of this conceptual study is to extend the boundaries of the identified female-dominated occupations beyond the usual suspects – i.e., social work,...

Several states have passed laws restricting undocumented immigrants’ access to health care and other publicly funded benefits. These laws and the debate surrounding them have been polarizing. Social psychologists have developed a Group Identity Model that has enormous explanatory power to...

The African American experience in the American economy in the Twentieth Century has been a story of many successes, and more than a few unfulfilled promises. Brought in chains to the poorest region of the United States to do the least desirable work, and purposely denied education in order to...

In this study, we show that an inflow of immigrants reduces volunteering, a proxy of social capital investment, in receiving communities. Since the 1960s, the US has seen a large decrease in social capital as well as a considerable inflow of immigrants. This increased heterogeneity in US cities...

“Anticipatory retaliation” refers to employers’ preemptive attempts to silence potential future worker opposition to substandard or illegal employment practices. Especially in “brown collar” workplaces that primarily employ low-wage, often undocumented, immigrants, anticipatory,...

This paper seeks to offer guidance to the Chicago City Council and awareness to other communities with regards to the constitutionality and harmful effects of the current Chicago Municipal Code Chapter 8-20. While this paper argues in support of gun control legislation, it questions whether...

In the island countries of the south Pacific traditional knowledge informs access to, use and production of cultural artifacts, flora and fauna, medicines, plant stocks and the management of natural resources. All too often however, this indigenous knowledge is ignored by the intellectual...

This paper extends the literature studying the effect of social media content on the evaluation of job candidates. In a large-scale online experiment that resembles real-life screening of candidates for a job in the hospitality sector, we find that information available on social media through...

The presence of an estimated 11.5 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, of which an estimated 7.2 million are working, has become a flashpoint in the emerging national debate about immigration. Given these statistics, it is not surprising that many undocumented workers suffer...

In the practice and in literature there is a vast range of illness that can lead to disabilities, and also other reasons for someone to become disabled. This paper will try to outline the basic difficulties connected in labor realization of people with disabilities: the existing legal, social...