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Older workers working longer; labor-force participation falling
Angry Bear —
Authority: 628
The BLS released its employment and labor force projections for the period 2008-2018. The report highlights a more diverse and slower growing labor force stemming from a falling labor-force participation rate. Some headline findings of the report are (bold font by yours truly): Total employment is projected to ...1 week ago -
Manticore Sighting
The Unbroken Window —
Authority: 438
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 ...3 weeks ago -
Must Read From David Leonhardt: Why Health Care Reform Matters, or How the GOP/Lieberman hate America Edition.
The Inverse Square Blog —
Authority: 478
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 ...3 weeks ago -
Inequality Explosion: Plummeting House Prices and Unemployment Cause Decline in Wealth for Working and Middle Class
The Indypendent —
Authority: 537
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 ...3 weeks ago -
Better news on the jobs front: Layoffs down, temp hiring up
macroblog —
Authority: 486
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 ...3 weeks ago -
The Diffusion of Labor Rights
IPE at UNC —
Authority: 131
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 ...4 weeks ago
