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You can talk all you want about the pool of qualified candidates, but a lot of that talk just sets up screens that would never be tolerated for lower-status jobs.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Department That Doesn’t Look Like America 2010
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People older than this are sometimes unwilling to accept a new, lower-paying or lower-status position, even if that refusal causes substantial economic hardship.
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You can talk all you want about the pool of qualified candidates, but a lot of that talk just sets up screens that would never be tolerated for lower-status jobs.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Department That Doesn’t Look Like America 2010
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People older than this are sometimes unwilling to accept a new, lower-paying or lower-status position, even if that refusal causes substantial economic hardship.
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University courses and medical degrees gradually supplanted apprenticeship and guild certification, making surgery, obstetrics, and ophthalmology medical specialties rather than lower-status occupations.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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The jobs typically offer fewer opportunities to network with highly regarded U. S.-based scholars, and they are sometimes seen as lower-status by U.S. universities, a perception that could harm academics 'prospects when they seek to return to the U.S.
What Helps New Ph.D.s Land Jobs in Academia? A Passport Erica Alini 2009
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Nor does it change the fact that, if the lower-status jobs which immigrants usually take cannot be filled, this will generate pressure for mechanization and automation which will have a long-term beneficial economic effect.
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A recent study showed that young people who graduate from college during recessions end up with lower-status jobs and lower pay, and they keep their lower status and pay for at least 18 years.
Self-Publishing and Editing Careers Editorial Anonymous 2009
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What could be done to encourage the lower-status and least-innovative clients to have more change agent contact?
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995
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If the change agent is an employee of a government agency or some other establishment institution, the lower-status client may distrust the change agent.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995
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