Baylor research examines how parental identity shapes education spending, challenges cultural stereotypes.

While movement from job to job throughout one’s career is expected, little research has evaluated the effects of hiring boomerang workers — those who return to a former employer. A new study by a University of California, Davis, researcher and colleagues suggests that in addition to benefits that boomerangs can bring to organizations with their knowledge, experience and familiarity with a team, current employees can benefit from boomerangs’ helpfulness. However, existing workers often are not as helpful to the boomerangs as they are to true newcomers to the organization, researchers said.

The study found that the lawmakers used a pragmatic approach to reforming the state’s law. A combination of moral and fiscal arguments proved to be the “magic formula.” Data quantifying the policy’s financial burden to the state and incarcerated individuals and their families emerged as the true bipartisan catalyst. Moral appeals alone, like fairness or reducing harm to incarcerated individuals, rarely changed minds.

Policies supporting specific industrial sectors are said to have sparked huge growth in East Asia, but new research suggests their impact on overall GDP growth is relatively limited.