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Social Origin, Skills, and Graduates’ Formal Employability in Brazil
No full textThis article explores how family background and skills affect the job prospects of Brazilian college graduates. Using national data on graduates with formal jobs four years after graduation, the study finds that high-achieving students from lower-income families are more likely to secure jobs than their wealthier peers. However, students from wealthier backgrounds and those with specific skills related to their field of study often land better jobs
A Legal, Ethical, and Public Policy Analysis of Airbnb: How Platform Design and Legal Loopholes Enable Discrimination in the Sharing Economy
Full text linkThis paper analyzes how Airbnb’s platform design, legal classification, and economic incentives enable racial discrimination within the sharing economy. Despite public commitments to diversity and inclusion, Airbnb continues to facilitate bias due to loopholes in civil rights legislation and design features such as profile pictures and name visibility. Empirical studies and high-profile incidents underscore persistent racial disparities for both guests and hosts. This paper concludes with policy recommendations, including legislative reforms, design changes, and stronger state-level protections. It advocates for a modernized legal framework that holds digital platforms accountable and ensures equity across the sharing economy
An Analysis of the Legal History and Economic Impact of Federal Minimum Wage Policy in the United States
Full text linkThis paper examines the evolution of the political and economic dynamics behind federal minimum wage policy by describing its history in detail. From judicial decisions about the role of the federal government in wage regulation, to the expansive policies of the New Deal Era, to the Reagan era's rejection of such a vast role of the federal government, the history of federal minimum wage policy is far from linear. Evolving political dynamics, jurisprudence, and economic theories have prevented a clear opinion on the legitimacy of a federal minimum wage from emerging. Today, advocates for free market purity dominate the federal government's approach to wage regulation, with meager increases - or no increases at all - becoming commonplace for Congress. As the paper demonstrates, the wage of 17 is complemented by two tax credits aimed at minimizing the increased labor costs that small businesses will face, while also recognizing the need for increased buying and saving power for low-wage Americans
When Data Does Not Deliver: Rethinking Datafication in Global Higher Education
No full textIn higher education, digital data is seen as transformative, and there is an omnipresent belief in its value. However, digital data is not inherently valuable; rather, it needs to be made so. This article investigates five challenges of datafication in the sector, addressing common misconceptions. It advocates for slow and responsible data innovation to meet the sector’s evolving needs
National AI Security Strategies: Impacts on Universities
No full textNational artificial intelligence (AI) strategies increasingly shape university research priorities, creating complex tensions around academic openness and institutional autonomy. This analysis examines how universities navigate competing demands between international collaboration and national security requirements in AI research and development. It explores institutional responses as universities adapt to heightened scrutiny while striving to maintain their core academic mission and international engagement amid geopolitical tensions in a multipolar world
Nondegree Education in Europe: Opportunities for Lifelong Learning
No full textEuropean higher education institutions and policy makers have granted increasing attention to the importance of shorter, nondegree education provision, as avenues to offer upskilling and reskilling to learners and workers, but also as a contribution of higher education to lifelong learning in society more generally. A recent study from the European University Association provides an overview of the extent to which such shorter learning provision is present in the European Higher Education Area. This paper also points to challenges identified by higher education institutions themselves and ways forward, in a context where processes and regulations are geared by default toward degree education, but where complementarity between longer and shorter education provision might become key to the future of learning in higher education