Immigration

The Economy and the Economics of Everyday Life - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com: "foreign-born workers who now represent about 15 percent of our labor force."

The Mancession - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com

The Mancession - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com: "We’ve pointed out before that that recession has disproportionately hurt men, who are more likely to work in cyclically sensitive industries like manufacturing and construction. Women, on the other hand, are overrepresented in more downturn-resistant sectors like education and health care. ... for the first time in American history women are coming close to representing the majority of the national work force."

Selection Bias and Quality

Matthew Yglesias » Home Page: "in my experience women are better managers than men. And I think there’s a sound theoretical basis for expecting that to be the case. Back in the 1950s, African-American baseball players were on average much better than white players. Not, it seems, because blacks are “better at baseball” than whites, but because the nature of the integration process was that African-Americans had to clear a higher bar to make it into big leagues at all."