Bluffton Labor
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Sticky Wages Explained
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Byran Caplan writes an excellent summary of Truman Bewley 's Why Wages Don't Fall During a Recessio...
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Lump of Labor Fallacy and Immigration
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The lump of labor fallacy is the idea that there is a fixed amount of work to be done and so population growth (or larger workforce part...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Discimination Against the Unemployed
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Kevin Drum cites a new study that shows, "If you've been out of work for a year, ...It's just really hard to get anyone to ...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
licensure and labor mobility
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Moneybox : one consequence of occupational licensing rules is to make it difficult to move from state to state. A licensed interior deco...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Boom-Towns & Baby-Booms vs. Immigration
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People do not think a baby boom is as worrisome as immigration. Nor intranational migration. Yglesias : When people hear about a town tha...
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Saturday, November 5, 2011
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Mandel : I started writing about tough times for young college grads in 2006 , when I was at BusinessWeek. Seems like a different day and...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Nutty PhD in Humanities?
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Author Louis Menand On Reforming U.S. Universities : NPR : an enormous number of new campuses opened up in the 1950s and 1960s. ...Th...
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