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Manticore Sighting
The Unbroken Window —
Authority: 430
We have had a sighting of an man employment eating beast right here in North America! And this one doesn’t seem to have the tail of poisonous spines or multiple rows of teeth. And what is this vicious creature? A reduction in the minimum wage. Paul Krugman castigates the Focks news crowd for thinking that ...1 week ago -
Must Read From David Leonhardt: Why Health Care Reform Matters, or How the GOP/Lieberman hate America Edition.
The Inverse Square Blog —
Authority: 466
In today’s NYT, Leonhardt — one of the few really good economics reporters out there right now — writes about the “innovation gap” induced by the catastrophic failure that is the American health care “system” as it stands. In doing so, he documents, once again, how the modern Republican party is, in ...1 week ago -
Inequality Explosion: Plummeting House Prices and Unemployment Cause Decline in Wealth for Working and Middle Class
The Indypendent —
Authority: 506
We have all the makings of a pronounced spike in income and wealth inequality. The major trends of the last eight months suggest that the least wealthy/lower earning 80 percent of the American population are in increasingly severe pain. The vast majority of Americans live off of labor income and possess only one ...1 week ago -
Better news on the jobs front: Layoffs down, temp hiring up
macroblog —
Authority: 560
Novembers employment report released last week provided significantly better-than-expected numbers on the jobs front. Payroll counts declined by 11,000 last month—the smallest decline in two years—and job losses in September and October were revised down a considerable 160,000. The declining number of job cuts is ...2 weeks ago -
The Diffusion of Labor Rights
IPE at UNC —
Authority: 132
The newest issue of the American Political Science Review includes an article by UNCs own Layna Mosley (with Brian Greenhill and Aseem Prakash), "Trade-based Diffusion of Labor Rights: A Panel Study, 1986-2002." An ungated version is here . The article argues that there is a "California Effect" for labor rights ...2 weeks ago -
Jobs and the potential commercial real estate problem: Still keeping us up at night
macroblog —
Authority: 560
In the season of good cheer, it is certainly gratifying to know that some in the economic forecasting business are actually feeling cheerier: Reaffirming last months call that the Great Recession is over, NABE [National Association for Business Economics] panelists have marked up their predictions for economic ...3 weeks ago -
The worst is yet to come: Unemployed Americans should hunker down for more job losses
Pak Alert Press —
Authority: 598
Top economic prognosticator says job seekers must face grim economic factsBY Nouriel RoubiniThink the worst is over? Wrong. Conditions in the U.S. labor markets are awful and worsening. While the official unemployment rate is already 10.2% and another 200,000 jobs were lost in October, when you include discouraged ...5 weeks ago
