Tickets are going for this great event on Wednesday 16th July held with @ethnicityuk.bsky.social
Please register your attendance via the Eventbrite link below - this event will only be held in-person but we are providing lunch first 🥳
bit.ly/4kdKg8z
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We are in Geneva this week at the 9th Regulating for Decent Work conference @ilo.org
Institute members are presenting at sessions over the 3 days and attending plenary talks on a variety of topics
Stay tuned for further updates!
#Work #Labour #WorkerRights #Equality #Cooperation #SocialJustice
Abstract Workers who are worried about their personal finances may find it hard to focus at work. If so, reducing financial concerns could increase productivity. We test this hypothesis in a sample of low-income Indian piece-rate manufacturing workers. We stagger when wages are paid out: some workers are paid earlier and receive a cash infusion while others remain liquidity constrained. The cash infusion leads workers to reduce their financial concerns by immediately paying off debts and buying household essentials. Subsequently, they become more productive at work: their output increases by 7% (0.11 std. dev.), and they make fewer costly, unintentional mistakes. Workers with more cash on hand thus not only work faster but also more attentively, suggesting improved cognition. These effects are concentrated among more financially constrained workers. We argue that mechanisms such as gift exchange or nutrition cannot account for our results. Instead, our findings suggest that financial strain, at least partly through psychological channels, has the potential to reduce earnings exactly when money is most needed.
Study out of India finds that reducing financial concerns could increase productivity. A cash infusion led to paying off debts followed by becoming more productive at work. Output increased by 7%, and they made fewer costly, unintentional mistakes.
Now imagine UBI.
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Digital futures We're an interdisciplinary network uniting 1700+ researchers across 30 fields to tackle digital challenges. Sign up to be on mailing list https://tinyurl.com/digitalfuturesuom Website: https://www.digitalfutures.manchester.ac.uk/
Welcome to Digital Futures! We're an interdisciplinary network uniting 1700+ researchers across 30 fields to tackle digital challenges. From AI to urban innovation, we're committed to shaping a smarter, more connected future. Join us on this exciting journey! #Digitalfutures #UoM #researchplatform
My Op-Ed in today's @theguardian.com. Let's stop tinkering and adopt a credible economic strategy.
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Well worth a read from @andyburnham.bsky.social on how a more joined-up approach can better help people & ultimately save money in a sustainable way too. Agree that a more rounded approach is needed - a challenge GM's Live Well model aims to answer. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Work-Net International: A new era for work and employment research 🔎
An event celebrating the launch of @worknetint.bsky.social, a groundbreaking global network advancing research on work and employment, will take place on 21 January.
Learn more: ow.ly/EuEq50UHBah
@workequalities.bsky.social
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Professor Duncan Ivison speaking at the front of a lecture hall.
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Earlier this week, @workequalities.bsky.social, alongside founding member institutes from around the world, proudly celebrated the launch of WorkNet International – a pioneering global network committed to advancing research on work and employment.
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The conference ended on Wednesday with a captivating talk by Professor Gary Younge @official-uom.bsky.social
Gary's talk was titled "Dive into the role of diversity and representation as routes toward institutional change and equality."
Thank you to everyone who attended and engaged!
Following this, Professor Damian Grimshaw (King’s College London) & Andrea Marinucci (ILO) presented "Insights from the latest ILO Flagship Report on collective bargaining."
This rounded off our insightful plenary talks for the conference.
People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change
Links to credible sources are crucial for meaningful and informed discussions on social media rather than shallow debates. Unlike x.com, Bluesky allows posts with links without throttling them?
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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How is Manchester tackling #healthinequalities?
Join #HealthierFutures at #TheUniversityofManchester for our annual lecture on 28 Nov and discover how Cordelle Ofori, Director of #publichealth for #Manchester City Council, and team are #MakingManchesterFairer.
All welcome. Register: lnkd.in/ewe-8nuY
The Productivity Institute - Productivity Research Conference - 4-5 September 2025 - The University of Manchester
🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS
The Productivity Institute is hosting an international research conference on Productivity on 4–5 September 2025. The deadline for paper/abstract submissions is 31 January. Find out more: 8812136.hs-sites-eu1.com/call-for-pap...
If you build it. They will come.
Great discussion&inputs @ceridwenhughes.bsky.social & other fantastic panelists AUMB @manchesterup.bsky.social 🙏to all to raising awareness around un- underpaid labour UK& around, access to legal counselling, labour markers conditionality,state policy, mgt&labor strategies just some topics ..
Call for papers!! www.ilo.org/rdw2025 9th ILO RDW with WEI co-organisers @workequalities.bsky.social
