MBO interns less likely than college students to be paid

DutchNews.nl— Some 60% of trade school students are not paid while on internships, according to research by ResearchNed and the CBS, which was commissioned by the cabinet. Some 75% of hbo college students are paid while on work experience programmes, as are 65% of university students. But only 41% of MBO college students get any form of compensation. MBO students who do get paid also earn less than college and university students. Much, however, depends on the sector they are working in. Some

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International Business Times UK—Resumes With 'Black' Names Like 'Lakisha' or 'Jamal' Less Likely To Get Callback, Research. In 2021, economists from the University of California Berkeley and the University of Chicago conducted a study that found that job applicants with traditionally Black-sounding names were called back for an interview 10 per cent less than their white counterparts.The study developed from research conducted by professors at the University of Chicago two decades ago. According to the university, the 2003 findings exposed that resumes with white-sounding names were 50% more likely to get hired than...

The Guardian—Like Germany’s president, I love a good kebab. Cosying up to autocrats like Erdoğan, less so. Germany’s complicity with Turkey’s repressive regime worries me more than its döner diplomacy“Nazis eat döner kebabs in secret,” must be one of the dumbest slogans I have seen at German protests against the far right. Yes, the popularity of the kebab in Germany has become something of a symbol of labour migration from Turkey after the second world war. And yes, Nazis get hungry, too. So what? If the consumption of ethnic-minority food was really an obstacle to the ideology of white supremacy,...