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• Israels Nasty Minimum Wage, by David Henderson

  
  EconLog — Authority: 698
  The government is considering establishing work camps in the south of the country, where illegal migrant workers will receive shelter, food and medical care, Army Radio reported Wednesday. In exchange, illegal migrants would perform manual labor outside the camps, but would not earn a salary. They would stay at the ...
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• Why Won’t the President Just Create the Jobs?

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 513
  The Washington Post’s Alec MacGillis asks a rather provocative question in today’s Outlook section: “Why won’t Obama give you a job?” The article challenges the Administration’s claim that “the stimulus is working” and argues that the Administration could have done or be doing better for the ...
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• , by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 698
  If all goes well this link will take you to an article (with cool charts!) where I make an empirical case for telling the Recalculation story rather than pretending that we have the same economy that existed in the 1930s when John Maynard Keynes developed his model. Im scheduling this post to appear on Saturday, ...
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• WSJ Front Page: Grim Milestone as Jobless Rate Tops 10%

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  The unemployment rate last month soared above 10% for the first time since the early 1980s, a milestone likely to weigh on consumer confidence and stir new efforts in Washington to spur job creation. Some 558,000 people joined the ranks of the jobless in October, sending the rate to 10.2% and the tally of officially ...
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• Innocent Bystanders: The Employment Picture and the Current Administration’s Stimulus Defense

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  The President and his economic team have claimed that the plan is working as intended , that they’re on track to save the original goal of 3.6 million jobs, but somehow, despite practically drowning in success, we’re going to have to live with high unemployment for years to come . Oh, and that everything ...
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• US jobless rate at 26 year high, crosses 10 percent mark

  
  Global Crisis News — Authority: 470
  Unemployment in the US increased more than expected last month to record  a 26 year high as employers continued to cut jobs, showing signs that that the struggle in the labor market carries on as the country’s economy tries to come out of recession. According to reports by the Labor Department, household surveys ...
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• U.S. Unemployment Rate Hits 10.2%, Highest in 26 Years

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  The American unemployment rate surged to 10.2 percent in October, its highest level in 26 years, as the economy lost another 190,000 jobs, the Labor Department reported Friday. The jump into the realm of double-digit joblessness — from 9.8 percent in September — provided a sobering reminder that, despite the ...
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• Here is a stat for you. Over 80,000 empty buildings and lots in Detroit alone. Whew!!!

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  A note about temporary work. I was one of those back in the 70s and 80s that was employed as a temporary employee. The thing is I had job skills. So I was kept busy for many years making more than being employed full-time. I grew to know many in the temporary market because I relocated several times due to job ...
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• Battered Company Says ‘No’ To Job Cuts

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  The Hypertherm factory sits hidden in the woods not far from Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.... ...late last year, production of ships and cars pretty much ground to a halt. And sales of cutting systems at Hypertherm dropped 50 percent. How many workers did the company lay off? None. It put them to work doing ...
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• Wisdom Worth Repeating, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 698
  Tyler Cowen repeats a tweet, and I will too. It comes from Masonomist Garett Jones . Workers mostly build organizational capital, not final output. This explains high productivity per worker during recessions. This is yet another difference between the labor force today and the labor force of the 1930s. Back ...
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• Reducing Real Compensation, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 698
  Alex Tabarrok highlights a post by David Beckworth on the sharp decline in nominal spending in 2008-2009. Alex writes, We could use some inflation to get back on track. Nominal wages are simply not flexible enough to get the job done in short order I would caution that lower real wages are only part of the ...
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• Is crime a habit?

  
  Economic Logic — Authority: 468
  Why are there repeat offender and career criminals? The obvious answers would be that this is where there comparative advantage is, or that they have nothing to lose once they served the first sentence. But what about crime being addicting?This is what Vladimir Kuhl Teles and Joaquim Andrade explore what would happen ...
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• Residential and NonResidential Construction Through September

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 646
  Residential construction spending was higher in September than in August, which was itself higher than in July, which was itself higher than in June.Interestingly, I predicted last December that the housing market would turn around in the summer of 2009. By now, we have seen enough housing price...
  6 days ago

• Salena Zito: Mood Sours Towards Both Parties

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  What does all of this mean? Populism is on the rise and conservatism is gaining steam, perhaps at its own expense. (If Hoffman loses in New York, it almost ensures that the Northeast will be almost exclusively Democrat-blue territory). A sour mood exists among people, with close-to-10-percent unemployment, ...
  1 week ago

• Finding Purpose in Labor (and Labor Economics)

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  In philosophy, religion, work and play, human beings tend to seek for meaning in their lives. We enjoy occupations that have meaning, and we can become quickly frustrated if we sense the pointlessness of a task. In the psychological literature, meaning is sometimes viewed as one of the strongest motivating factors in ...
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• Irwin Stelzer: Why is America gloomy when the news is good?

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  Small-business owners are more concerned about the administration’s emerging $1 trillion healthcare plan, which will drive up their costs, and with the new taxes that are aimed squarely at the income groups into which owners of small firms generally fall. So they won’t expand or hire. Which is why the White House ...
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• Unemployment rises as 484,000 jobs lost in South Africa in Q3

  
  Global Crisis News — Authority: 470
  A Pretoria based agency, Statistics SA, has reported that  employment fell by 3.6 percent in the third quarter and 484,000 jobs were lost. The official rate of unemployment went up from 23.6 percent in the previous quarter to 24.5 percent this quarter. Jobs in the manufacturing sector fell by 8 percent as 150,000 ...
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• Huge Local News: Boeing lands in the South Carolina Lowcountry

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  North Charleston won the fiercely fought battle for a Boeing 787 aircraft assembly plant Wednesday, thrusting South Carolina onto the world stage of aircraft manufacturing. The Boeing Co. will build the new line at its Charleston International Airport property instead of in Everett, Wash., the nations aviation nerve ...
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• Increasing Gaps are Obstacles to the Achievement of IL15 Vision

  
  Vision to Reality: The Reut Blog — Authority: 118
  A report recently published by the OECD points to the growing gaps between rich and poor in OECD countries. According to a report published by the UN Development Program, Israel is ranked fourth in terms of Gini index. Such deep gaps may endanger the achievement of IL15 vision. Large gaps between rich and poor that ...
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• Ongoing Dialogue: The Secret to Implementing Changes

  
  Vision to Reality: The Reut Blog — Authority: 118
  The failure of the “Agreed Payment Holiday” policy demonstrates the need for partnership between sectors as a tool for implementing changes in the labor market.Writing in The Marker, Vice President of the Manufacturers’ Association, Ginal Ruby, criticizes the “Agreed Payment Holiday” policy which as been ...
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