Tag: employer
![Businessman in office talking on phone](https://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/iStock-1158791616-1536x864.jpg)
One big problem people have when negotiating for a job or a raise is that they get in their own way. Negotiating unleashes a brew of emotions – fear of rejection, a lack of confidence, doubts – that can sabotage them. The British have coined a word for this type of anxiety: collywobbles. Moshe Cohen,…
![Does Private Disability Affect Federal Rolls?](https://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/federal-rolls.png)
Economists have long thought that if employees have disability insurance on the job, they might never migrate over to the government’s disability rolls. A new study finds just the opposite. In Canada, the existence of short-term disability in the private sector increased the number of people going into the national government’s program by 18,300 in…