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Источник: "No-Vacation Nation Revisited", CEPR, 2013
25 Best Jobs for Work-Life Balance
[ October 20, 2015 | via GlassDoor ]Maintaining a healthy work-life balance can be tough in today’s work environment, but some jobs allow for more flexibility than others. In fact, work-life balance has decreased in recent years, as employees have reported an average work-life balance satisfaction rating of 3.5 in 2009, 3.4 in 2012, and 3.2 thus far in 2015* (Ratings based on a 5-point scale: 1.0=very dissatisfied, 3.0=OK, 5.0=very satisfied). So where do you turn to get a job that won’t leave you working 24/7?
That’s where we come in. Glassdoor has identified the 25 Best Jobs for Work-Life Balance. This list was compiled based entirely on employee feedback shared on Glassdoor over the past year.
Data Scientist, SEO Manager and Talent Acquisition Specialist top our list for jobs providing a great work-life balance.
Which other jobs help you lead a satisfying life in and out of the office? Check out the complete results:
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- Work-Life Balance Rating: 4.2
- Salary: $114,808
- Number of Job Openings: 1,315
Only a third of Americans think it's unfair that women generally cannot go topless in places where men can
[ by Peter Moore | 21 July 2015 | via YouGov ]
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(кликабельно)The laws on toplessness can vary significantly across the country, though not as much as people might suppose. In New York state women are legally allowed to go topless anywhere that a man is also allowed to be topless, including the streets of New York City and the subway, something the police now generally respect. Many other states, including places as disparate as California and Alabama, also have similar laws on the books. In fact only three states (Utah, Indiana and Tennessee) explicitly prohibit female toplessness in public.
Research from YouGov shows that Americans tend to be OK with having different standards for men and women when it comes to toplessness. 47% of Americans think it's fair that men can generally go topless places women cannot, but 35% think it is unfair. There is a significant age divide on this question, however, as younger Americans are much more likely to think it is an unfair double standard than older Americans. 49% of under-30s think that it is unfair to hold women to a different standard than men, but 63% of over-65s think it is fair.
There is also a gender divide on this question. While most women (51%) think that it is fair that women's toplessness is generally not allowed when men's is, men are nearly evenly split, with 44% saying it is fairly while 42% think it is unfair.
The offensiveness of seeing topless women with bare breasts varies greatly based on context. While 73% of Americans would not be that offended by seeing a woman breastfeeding in public, 60% say that they would be offended 'a lot' or 'somewhat' by seeing a topless women walking on the sidewalk. 58% say the same about the front page of a newspaper, on TV before 6pm (56%) and while sunbathing in a park (50%). Most Americans would not be that offended, however, by seeing a topless woman on the cover of a fashion magazine (51%) or on TV after 11pm (60%).
Full poll results can be found here and topline results and margin of error here.
These Are the 13 Cities Where Millennials Can't Afford a Home
[ by Victoria Stilwell and Wei Lu | June 8, 2015 | via Bloomberg ]
Soaring home prices and stagnant wages combine to make home-buying in some cities a pipe dream for young adults.
There's no place like home — except when you can't afford one.
Millennials have been priced out of some of the biggest U.S. cities, with residential real estate prices rising even as wage growth remains elusive.
Bloomberg used data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Zillow Group Inc. and Bankrate.com to quantify how much more money millennials would need to earn each year to afford a home in the largest U.S. cities. The good news is that out of 50 metropolitan areas, 37 are actually affordable for the typical 18-34 year-old (scroll down to the end of the story to see the full results).The bad news is that the areas that often most appeal to young adults are also the ones where homeownership is the most out of reach.
(кликабельно)The biggest disparities are on the West Coast. Take the three Californian hubs of San Francisco, San Jose (the heart of Silicon Valley), and Los Angeles (where a developer is trying to sell one of the biggest homes in U.S. history for a record $500 million). The typical young adult in those cities doesn't even make half of what's needed to afford a home.
That makes places such as New York, where millennials have an earnings gap of just $6,550, seem relatively affordable. But remember that New York's metropolitan statistical region includes places that are outside of the high-priced housing market in and around Manhattan, where $374,350 (the median home value for the metro area) wouldn't even buy you a kitchen.
Almost 80 percent of New York's millennials reside in three counties: New York County, Queens County and Kings County, where Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn respectively are located. Using the average median home value for those three boroughs ($749,596) and the 2015 estimated earnings for millennials living there ($49,193), the affordability gap comes out to a whopping $52,262.
Furthermore, Bloomberg's calculations assume that millennials have already saved up the 20 percent they'd need for a down payment, which is a problem in itself. Families where the head of household was under 35 years old had a median net worth of $10,400 in 2013, according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances.
Many millennials "don't have the money for a down payment or can't afford to buy where they want to buy," said Mark Vitner, senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities LLC in Charlotte, North Carolina. "It's tougher to buy a home in the city."
That means millennials living in unaffordable markets will be forced to shell out money for ever-increasing rents, instead of building equity.
Graduate school brought Dan Smart, 28, to New York almost three years ago. As he was finishing his degree, he wanted to buy property to "put down some roots and be established for a while," Smart said in an interview. High home prices in Manhattan, however, are making that dream a little more difficult, he said.
"I'm making a good salary and I'm doing all these things that I'm supposed to be doing," such as saving for a down payment, he said. "But you're just not able to save enough to get to that number. Housing is so inflated."
Real estate markets that millennials may find most affordable include Detroit, Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Indianapolis. You can see the full list in the interactive table below. A negative earnings gap on the far-right column indicates that the typical millennial doesn't earn enough to buy a home in that metro area. A surplus, on the other hand, indicates that the typical young person does.
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25 Best Cities For Jobs
[ May 19, 2015 | via GlassDoor ]
Thinking about moving to a new city for a job? Turns out, all cities are not created equal for jobs.
That’s why Glassdoor is revealing its newest report on the 25 Best Cities for Jobs. These 25 cities stand out for having the highest Glassdoor Job Score*, determined by weighting three factors equally: how easy it is to get a job (hiring opportunity), how affordable it is to live there (cost of living), and how satisfied employees are working there (job satisfaction).
As part of this report, we include each city’s median pay for employees, median home value, job satisfaction rating, number of current job openings and population. Check out the results below:
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Washington, DC Region to Number Nearly 7 Million in 2040
[via Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments]Washington, D.C. – New figures from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments show the region’s population nearing seven million by 2040. The addition of more than 1.6 million people between 2010 and 2040 would represent an increase of 32 percent for metropolitan Washington as a whole, with some jurisdictions experiencing an even larger increase. Employment in the region is projected to grow at an even greater rate than population, with nearly 1.4 million jobs being added between 2010 and 2040, an increase of 43 percent.
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Недоумеваю, однако: "sales engineer" -- это как?
25 Highest Paying Jobs In Demand
[February 17, 2015 | via GlassDoor]Glassdoor has released its inaugural 25 Highest Paying Jobs In Demand report, identifying top jobs that pay the most and are in high demand by employers nationwide.
Job seekers: While these jobs pay handsomely, it’s important to note that most also require a high level of experience, skills and education to get hired.
Check out the complete results:
1. Physician
- Average Base Salary: $212,270
- Number of Job Openings: 7984
- Average Base Salary: $131,099
- Number of Job Openings: 1787
- Average Base Salary: $130,891
- Number of Job Openings: 3229
4. Software Development Manager
- Average Base Salary: $ 123,747
- Number of Job Openings: 2249
- Average Base Salary: $123,534
- Number of Job Openings: 9224
- Average Base Salary: $121,522
- Number of Job Openings: 3530
7. Lawyer
- Average Base Salary: $120,424
- Number of Job Openings: 5520
- Average Base Salary: $115,725
- Number of Job Openings: 1408
9. IT Manager
- Average Base Salary: $115,642
- Number of Job Openings: 17,161
10. Tax Manager
- Average Base Salary: $114,966
- Number of Job Openings: 3622
11. Pharmacist
- Average Base Salary: $114,715
- Number of Job Openings: 9160
12. Product Manager
- Average Base Salary: $113,959
- Number of Job Openings: 9918
- Average Base Salary: $110,871
- Number of Job Openings: 43678
- Average Base Salary: $106,632
- Number of Job Openings: 1,667
15. Data Scientist
- Average Base Salary: $105,395
- Number of Job Openings: 3433
- Average Base Salary: $102,749
- Number of Job Openings: 2,060
17. QA Manager
- Average Base Salary: $101,330
- Number of Job Openings: 1,689
18. Computer Hardware Engineer
- Average Base Salary: $101,154
- Number of Job Openings: 1,264
- Average Base Salary: $100,229
- Number of Job Openings: 14,179
- Average Base Salary: $97,258
- Number of Job Openings: 9,041
21. UX Designer
- Average Base Salary: $96,855
- Number of Job Openings: 2,010
- Average Base Salary: $96,406
- Number of Job Openings: 7,220
- Average Base Salary: $96,392
- Number of Job Openings: 99,055
24. Business Development Manager
- Average Base Salary: $95,139
- Number of Job Openings: 11,037
25. Sales Engineer
- Average Base Salary: $90,899
- Number of Job Openings: 5,508
A growing number of corporations spend more on executive compensation than federal income taxes. [ BY SARAH ANDERSON AND SCOTT KLINGER | NOVEMBER 18, 2014 | via IPS ] This report reveals stark indicators of the extent to which large corporations are avoiding their fair share of taxes. Of America’s 30 largest corporations, seven (23 percent) paid their CEOs more than they paid in federal income taxes last year.
Of America’s 100 highest-paid CEOs, 29 received more in pay last year than their company paid in federal income taxes—up from 25 out of the top 100 in our 2010 and 2011 surveys.
For corporations to reward one individual, no matter how talented, more than they are contributing to the cost of all the public services needed for business success reflects the deep flaws in our corporate tax system. Rather than more tax breaks, Congress should focus on addressing these deep flaws by cracking down on the use of tax havens, eliminating wasteful corporate subsidies, and closing loopholes that encourage excessive executive compensation. |
| Про то, что «топ 1%» наскирдовал себе сорок с лишним процентов Интересно то, что как показало исследование Саеза и Цукмана (в прошлом соавторов, к слову сказать, того самого Пиккети), внутри этого самого Другими словами, тем, кто только-только (или вот-вот) ворвался в «топ 1%» снизу, по всей вероятности рано радоваться. Не лишён интереса и полный текст статьи: [pdf] Saez, E., Zucman, G.: "Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data", working paper, October 2014 |
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В «Труде» сенсационная заметка
О том, что до сих пор шумит тайга
35 percent of people with credit files have debt in collections reported in these files.И тут же разъяснено, что
Debt in collections originates from non-payment of a bill, and includes events such as failing to make payments on an outstanding credit card balance, not paying medical or utility bills, or even failing to pay a parking ticket. Importantly, a debt that is reported as in collections can remain on a person's credit report until the debt is seven years past due. Unlike debt past due, debt identified as in collections in our data has not necessarily been verified in the past 12 months. ... Note that consumers themselves may not realize they have debt in collections. Some consumers report becoming aware of this debt only when they review their credit report.Попросту говоря, 35% граждан, имеющих документированную кредитную историю, где-то когда-то в течении семи лет не заплатили какой-то счёт, о чём, возможно, и сами не подозревают. Сугубо IMHO, скорее говорит об уровне разгильдяйства, чем о финансовых трудностях.
Average U.S. Employee Only Takes Half of Earned Vacation Time; Glassdoor Employment Confidence Survey (Q1 2014)
April 03, 2014 | [ via GlassDoor]While the U.S. government, under the Fair Labor Standards Act, does not currently require employers to grant employees paid time off, employees who do earn vacation time may need a reminder to actually take it. According to Glassdoor’s Q1 2014 Employment Confidence Survey, the average U.S. employee (of those who receive vacation/paid time off) only takes half (51%) of his or her eligible vacation time/paid time off. In addition, when employees do take paid time off, three in five (61%) admit doing some work.
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The less Americans know about Ukraine’s location, the more they want U.S. to intervene BY KYLE DROPP, JOSHUA D. KERTZER AND THOMAS ZEITZOFF April 7, 2014 | [ via Washington Post ] Since Russian troops first entered the Crimean peninsula in early March, a series of media polling outlets have asked Americans how they want the U.S. to respond to the ongoing situation. Although two-thirds of Americans have reported following the situation at least “somewhat closely,” most Americans actually know very little about events on the ground — or even where the ground is. On March 28-31, 2014, we asked a national sample of 2,066 Americans (fielded via Survey Sampling International Inc. (SSI), what action they wanted the U.S. to take in Ukraine, but with a twist: In addition to measuring standard demographic characteristics and general foreign policy attitudes, we also asked our survey respondents to locate Ukraine on a map as part of a larger, ongoing project to study foreign policy knowledge. We wanted to see where Americans think Ukraine is and to learn if this knowledge (or lack thereof) is related to their foreign policy views. We found that only one out of six Americans can find Ukraine on a map, and that this lack of knowledge is related to preferences: The farther their guesses were from Ukraine’s actual location, the more they wanted the U.S. to intervene with military force. Ukraine: Where is it? Survey respondents identified Ukraine by clicking on a high-resolution world map, shown above. We then created a distance metric by comparing the coordinates they provided with the actual location of Ukraine on the map. Other scholars, such as Markus Prior, have used pictures to measure visual knowledge, but unlike many of the traditional open-ended items political scientists use to measure knowledge, distance enables us to measure accuracy continuously: People who believe Ukraine is in Eastern Europe clearly are more informed than those who believe it is in Brazil or in the Indian Ocean. About one in six (16 percent) Americans correctly located Ukraine, clicking somewhere within its borders. Most thought that Ukraine was located somewhere in Europe or Asia, but the median respondent was about 1,800 miles off — roughly the distance from Chicago to Los Angeles — locating Ukraine somewhere in an area bordered by Portugal on the west, Sudan on the south, Kazakhstan on the east, and Finland on the north. Who is more accurate? Accuracy varies across demographic groups. In general, younger Americans tended to provide more accurate responses than their older counterparts: 27 percent of 18-24 year olds correctly identified Ukraine, compared with 14 percent of 65+ year-olds. Men tended to do better than women, with 20 percent of men correctly identifying Ukraine and 13 percent of women. Interestingly, members of military households were no more likely to correctly locate Ukraine (16.1 percent correct) than members of non-military households (16 percent correct), but self-identified independents (29 percent correct) outperformed both Democrats (14 percent correct) and Republicans (15 percent correct). Unsurprisingly, college graduates (21 percent correct) were more likely to know where Ukraine was than non-college graduates (13 percent correct), but even 77 percent of college graduates failed to correctly place Ukraine on a map; the proportion of college grads who could correctly identify Ukraine is only slightly higher than the proportion of Americans who told Pew that President Obama was Muslim in August 2010. Does accuracy matter? Does it really matter whether Americans can put Ukraine on a map? Previous research would suggest yes: Information, or the absence thereof, can influence Americans’ attitudes about the kind of policies they want their government to carry out and the ability of elites to shape that agenda. Accordingly, we also asked our respondents a variety of questions about what they thought about the current situation on the ground, and what they wanted the United States to do. Similarly to other recent polls, we found that although Americans are undecided on what to do with Ukraine, they are more likely to oppose action in Ukraine the costlier it is — 45 percent of Americans supported boycotting the G8 summit, for example, while only 13 percent of Americans supported using force. However, the further our respondents thought that Ukraine was from its actual location, the more they wanted the U.S. to intervene militarily. Even controlling for a series of demographic characteristics and participants’ general foreign policy attitudes, we found that the less accurate our participants were, the more they wanted the U.S. to use force, the greater the threat they saw Russia as posing to U.S. interests, and the more they thought that using force would advance U.S. national security interests; all of these effects are statistically significant at a 95 percent confidence level. Our results are clear, but also somewhat disconcerting: The less people know about where Ukraine is located on a map, the more they want the U.S. to intervene militarily. |
| The chief executives of McDonald's and Starbucks earn more than $9,200 an hour, which is at least 1,000 times the hourly wages of their sales associates. |
[ сообщает Yahoo! Finance со ссылкой на NerdWallet ]
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 [ via lex_kravetski ] | "Кому на Руси жить хорошо?", равно как и "что делать?" и "кто виноват?", является, как известно, одним из вопросов, не перестающих занимать умы граждан. Последнее время всё чаще и чаще озвучивается мнение, что нефть дорожает, спортивные победы идут одна за другой, страна поднимается и вообще народ в РФ живет всё богаче и богаче (чтобы далеко не ходить за примером, вот у меня же во френдленте и в комментах). В этой связи предлагается вдумчиво посмотреть на приведённый здесь график и немного помедитировать. Кому интересно, детали и подробности здесь. |
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