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• David Ignatius: The jobless scary movie

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  For a political horror show, fast-forward to the summer of 2010: The unemployment rate is stubbornly high, hovering between 9.3 and 9.7 percent. Companies are wary about hiring more workers because the economy remains soft. Small businesses, which normally power a recovery, are caught in a credit squeeze. In this ...
  17 hours ago

• Why third generation immigrants earn less

  
  Economic Logic — Authority: 512
  It is well known that second generation immigrants fit better in the host country. This is particularly true with respect to human capital, with the first generation being either less educated than the second, or not being able to exploit fully its existing human capital. What happens to further generations? If the ...
  1 day ago

• The Great Depression as a Recalculation, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 692
  In an interview, Bruce Greenwald says , Basically, in the Depression a huge sector of the economy that everyone had always regarded as central, died. And it dies for an almost virtuous reason. That sector of course is agriculture. Because productivity in agriculture had been growing faster than demand, we ...
  2 days ago

• Learning about the EU Flexicurity approach

  
  Vision to Reality: The Reut Blog — Authority: 127
  The Reut team recently came back from a study visit to the EU in which we meet with officials and EU social partners regarding the Flexicurity approach. Our main insights and findings are below:Flexicurity is not a new policy but a general approach, which encompasses overarching policies and means that states have ...
  5 days ago

• College Graduates Struggle To Repay Loans

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  Samantha Green graduated from Indiana University in May with a $50,000 debt, a degree in journalism and a burning desire to start her career in Chicago. So far, the only job offers she has gotten are temporary or minimum-wage sales jobs. "Its just not something thats a good fit for me," says Green, who is doing odd ...
  5 days ago

• WSJ: Weighing Jobs and Deficit

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  The White House is lukewarm about proposals by congressional Democrats to introduce broad legislation to create jobs, instead favoring targeted measures that would be less likely to inflate the deficit, administration officials said. There is as yet no agreement within the White House or in Congress on how to try to ...
  6 days ago

• The Right Minimum Wage Question, by David Henderson

  
  EconLog — Authority: 692
  Like Bryan, I received the same request from the same friend: what question(s) would I want to put on a survey of economists. My response was that I would want the question on the minimum wage asked accurately instead of sloppily. Heres how the issue was posed in the famous 1976 survey that was reported in J. R. ...
  6 days ago

• Amy Henry—Idle Hands: Some Puritan Advice for the Unemployed

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  Reformer and forefather of much Puritan theology, Martin Luther, in his doctrine of vocation, taught that God gave each individual an occupational "calling." Mans vocation was not seen as impersonal and random, but as from a loving and personal God who bestowed each individual with natural talents and desires for a ...
  1 week ago

• NPR—Black Males Hit Extra Hard By Unemployment

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  The countrys spiraling unemployment rate is taking a particular toll on men as the recession continues to roil male-dominated industries, such as manufacturing and construction. This "he-cession," as its sometimes called, has hit African-American men especially hard, increasing their unemployment rate to more than 17 ...
  1 week ago

• The Roller Coaster of Economic Indicators

  
  Jeff Frankels Weblog — Authority: 507
  The economy has been on a roller coaster ride since the cyclical peak of December 2007. (See illustration.) The gradual slide of early 2008 turned into a terrifying freefall in the last quarter of 2008 (after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy) and the first quarter of 2009. Now the train is probably at the bottom of ...
  1 week ago

• The Hill: Stock tax less likely for jobs bill

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday played down the possibility of using a stock trade tax to fund jobs legislation, saying it should only be done in conjunction with other countries. "It would have to be an international rule," Pelosi (D-Calif.) said at her weekly news conference. She said that she did not want ...
  1 week ago

• Laura Vanderkam: Give thanks for job creators

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  Kimberly Martinez has a history of finding success in disaster. After she lost her job in 2002, she and her sister-in-law capitalized on the post-9/11 security craze to launch a business called Bonitas International, which sells ID badge jewelry. People snapped up the fancy BooJeeBeads lanyards, and revenue rose fast, ...
  1 week ago

• Since You Asked, Scott, by Bryan Caplan

  
  EconLog — Authority: 692
  How can any economist - even Krugman - advocate job subsidies and work sharing?  Krugmans answer is that its a "third-best" solution.  His top three: 1. Sumnerian monetary policy.  Seriously, but without the hat tip. 2. More fiscal stimulus. 3. Job subsidies and working sharing. His rationale is political: ...
  1 week ago

• A Minsky Recovery?, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 692
  As always, there are conflicting views on the economic outlook. Daniel Gross is optimistic. In the third quarter, productivity--econospeak for companies doing more work with the same amount of labor--rose at a 9.5 percent annual rate... But just as hamsters can run only so fast on their treadmills, there are ...
  1 week ago

• NY Times Letters—Economic Lifelines: Jobs, More Jobs

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  Here is one: To the Editor: The American Small Business League is concerned that the Obama administration is doing nothing of major significance to aid our country’s 27 million small businesses, or to create jobs. In August, we conducted an analysis of the government’s small-business contracting data for the ...
  1 week ago

• Paul Krugman Gobsmacks His Readers

  
  The New Ledger Chequer-Board — Authority: 145
  I have no doubt that Krugman is a smart guy–I have said so many times, and I have said that his Nobel Prize was richly deserved. But he does so much to make one lose one’s high opinion of him . Steve Landsburg’s harsh judgment is entirely merited.
  2 weeks ago

• An Interesting Part of the Labor Market: The Work Sharing Program

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  It was disheartening to hear the recent statistics showing payrolls fell by 190,000 workers last month and the U.S. unemployment rate climbed to 10.2 percent. These numbers have been creeping up for some time now, and families nationwide are hurting from lost jobs, lost benefits, and lost sense of self. There had to ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Happens Next?

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 640
  I’m not sure. My version of the real business cycle model (some of my academic papers on it are here and here, and I began applying it to this recession about a year ago, such as here and here) does not give a definite answer, but it does drastically narrow the possibilities.My model has no...
  2 weeks ago

• Boston Globe: Stimulus job boost in state exaggerated, review finds

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  While Massachusetts recipients of federal stimulus money collectively report 12,374 jobs saved or created, a Globe review shows that number is wildly exaggerated. Organizations that received stimulus money miscounted jobs, filed erroneous figures, or claimed jobs for work that has not yet started. Read it all .
  2 weeks ago

• Mysteries of the BLS Seasonal Adjustment Process

  
  Matthew Yglesias — Authority: 797
  Remember on Friday when unemployment rose and 190,000 jobs were lost? Floyd Norris points out that even though these events were widely reported they didn’t actually happen . Instead, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the number of jobs went up and the unemployment rate went down. But then a seasonal ...
  2 weeks ago

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