Dear Santa, Who's Your City?
For kids and for kids at heart, Christmas is often regarded as the most wonderful time of the year. Family, love, celebration and reflection are all aspects that make the Christmas season special. Giving is an important part of Christmas and no man understands this concept more than Santa Claus himself. After the many years of commuting on Christmas Eve, jolly old St. Nicholas is reconsidering his home at the North Pole. Given his job description, extreme isolation has lost its appeal. In true Christmas spirit, the MPI is offering Santa a top 10 list of places that would best suit him and his needs.
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The Occupational Classes: Not All Jobs are Created Equal - Conclusion
Too often, the creative and service occupational classes are misrepresented as being in opposition with each other. This series of snapshots has established that the classes are hardly homogenous, and emphasized that considering them as such obscures some very real/worthwhile differences both within, between, and among the classes.
The Occupational Classes: Not All Jobs are Created Equal - Number of Jobs Edition
The sixth piece in our series exploring the characteristics of creative and service occupational classes considers the proportions and outcomes of workers who move from one job to another or hold two jobs at the same time.
The Occupational Classes: Not All Jobs are Created Equal - Self-Employment Edition
The fifth piece in our ongoing series exploring the characteristics of work in the creative and service occupational classes considers the economic outcomes of self-employed workers.
The Occupational Classes: Not All Jobs are Created Equal - Work Schedule Edition
The next edition of our comparative Insight series compares the creative and service occupational classes in terms of work schedule. A “traditional” work schedule is a regular daytime — Monday–Friday, 9–5 — working arrangement. A “non-traditional” arrangement is anything else — it may be more variable or entail shift work. Both are full time in terms of hours worked per week.