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• Detection of wage under-reporting

  
  Economic Logic — Authority: 108
  The recent publication by Greece of the names of the most notorious tax cheat is the latest event in a recent trend by tax authorities across the world as they try to secure more revenue. Of course, it is difficult to evaluate how much underreported taxable income there is. One way, recently reported here , is to ...
  1 week ago

• Great Graphic: EU Unemployment

  
  Marc to Market — Authority: 492
  This is a pretty cool infographic (I had to make it small on the blog, but its big once you click) about unemployment in the EU. For clarification (via another Infographic) of which countries are in the Euro Zone vs. European Union vs. European Economic Area check out this post . Not surprisingly, Greece and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Barack Obama’s Biggest Economic Mistake Has Been…

  
  Jeff Frankels Weblog — Authority: 466
  In the current issue of Foreign Policy , the editors of the FP Survey ask “top experts” for pithy solutions to the world’s economic problems, “twitter style.”  Some of the answers: THE BIGGEST THREAT TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IS … Anti-market bias. -Bryan Caplan •  Procrastination. -Peter Diamond ...
  2 weeks ago

• Great Stagnation or Great Vacation?, by Bryan Caplan

  
  EconLog — Authority: 661
  Keynesians have long mocked their critics as people who believe that the Great Depression was really a "Great Vacation."  Charles Murrays new book makes a decent case that working class men have indeed taken a Great Vacation over the last couple of decades.  He approvingly quotes Aguiar and Hurst: between 1985 ...
  2 weeks ago

• RNS—Supreme Court Sides with Churches in Employment Fights

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 482
  “The court hasn’t spoken this clearly on a church-state matter in almost 20 years,” said Rob Garnett, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame who wrote an amicus brief on the case in support of the Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School. “This is bedrock,” Garnett continued. “All the ...
  2 weeks ago

• A New York Times Editorial on this week’s Supreme Court Decision

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 482
  Ms. [Cheryl] Perich spent most of her time teaching nonreligious subjects with about a sixth of her time on religion classes, so the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit concluded that she was not a ministerial worker and that she could sue. In overturning that decision, the Supreme Court ruled that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Religious Groups Greet recent Supreme Court Ruling With Satisfaction

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 482
  Among the more or less predictable reactions from legal adversaries to the Supreme Court’s finding that ministers may not bring employment discrimination suits against their churches, there is a pious sentiment to be found here and there — an appeal to an even higher law. Even those who agreed with the unanimous ...
  2 weeks ago

• More employees work multiple jobs to make ends meet

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 128
  More and more employees are taking on multiple jobs in order to make ends meet.There are fewer people working part time.  But, More people are working multiple jobs.  The job market continues to be a mixed bag for millions of workers across the country.On a positive note, when workers are able to clock in more [...]
  3 weeks ago

• (SMH) An Australian Article on the coming U.S. Presidential Election that is actually worth Reading

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 482
  ("US election race baffles the punters" is the title SMH gives it).... Assuming no imminent foreign policy crisis, the election will depend on two things: whether undecided voters blame the congressional Republicans more than the President for the state of the economy, and how many potential supporters the candidates ...
  3 weeks ago

• What is a Structurally Impaired Job?, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 661
  Walter Kurtz writes , Credit Suisse defines structurally impaired sectors to "include real estate related industries, finance, manufacturing, and the state and local government sector." These are the sectors that at least in part rode the "bubble" economy wave. Many of these jobs were credit dependent, with growth ...
  3 weeks ago

• Do Law Schools Discriminate Against Conservatives?

  
  The Reality-Based Community — Authority: 122
  Teresa R. Wagner, a conservative Republican who applied for a faculty job at Iowa and was turned down, thinks so: Ms. Wagner, who graduated from the law school in 1993 and had taught at the George Mason University School of Law, was not hired. She sued, alleging discrimination because of her political beliefs. Late ...
  3 weeks ago

• (NY Times on the Republican Primary) In South Carolina, Challenges Await on Ideology and Faith

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 482
  A Republican Party whose more energetic precincts have been gripped throughout the Obama presidency by a desire to expel moderates and upend the establishment will have put itself in the hands of a candidate who, more than anyone in the race, comes out of a moderate, establishment Republican tradition. But to get ...
  3 weeks ago

• Down and Out: Measuring Long-Term Hardship in the Labor Market by John Schmitt

  
  carapace - Not your father's america — Authority: 131
    Down and Out: Measuring Long-Term Hardship in the Labor Market , January 2012, John Schmitt and Janelle Jones – Center for Economic and Policy Research "From peak to trough, the United States lost almost nine million jobs in the most recent economic downturn. What was completely unprecedented about the most ...
  3 weeks ago

• Surprising International Comparison of Average Hours Worked

  
  Marc to Market — Authority: 492
  The conventional narrative about the European debt crisis largely accepts the contention that the periphery of Europe have different work habits and these account to a large extent the economic and financial problems. Yet often time the discussion takes on such ethnocentric dimensions that sometimes it is difficult to ...
  3 weeks ago

• How the 24-Hour Retail Cycle Skewed Labor Data

  
  Wall Street Greek — Authority: 105
  On almost all accounts, December’s Employment Situation Report was interpreted as good news. However, I see a problem that was only partially broached by the popular press last week. I think a seasonal and unique to 2011 factor supported the labor market last month. This, combined with other seasonal factors ...
  3 weeks ago

• Unemployment Rate

  
  Stephan Smith FX — Authority: 92
  Have you ever wondered what an unemployment rate is? What does it mean? Why is it important and how does it influence Forex traders (also known as currency traders )? Those are all very important questions I will answer on this page. What is an Unemployment Rate? An unemployment rate is a fundamental economic ...
  3 weeks ago

• (WSJ) Unemployment Scars Likely to Last for Years

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 482
  The U.S. job market is showing signs of a sustained recovery. But the countrys prolonged struggle with unemployment will leave scars that are likely to remain for years, if not generations. The latest labor-market snapshot, out Friday, gave cause for continued, if tepid, optimism. U.S. employers added 200,000 jobs in ...
  3 weeks ago

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