1. Farmer’s Folly: Bringing the Nikkei Godzilla to America
(Matching tags: economy, recession, unemployment, employment, consumption, stock market crash, asset prices, S&P 500, investment)

UCLA’s Roger Farmer has suggested that the government should bid up asset prices—say, purchasing shares of companies in the S&P 500 in order to drive up the stock market.  In essence, he argues ...

2. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, February 2 – 8, 2013
(Matching tags: health care, economy, jobs, labor market, unemployment, trade deficit, economic growth, climate change, affirmative action, manufacturing)

Here are the latest labor market policy research reports from the past week: Center for American Progress Inclusive Economic Growth: Increasing Connectivity, Expanding Opportunity, and Reducing Vulnerability ...

3. Fiscal Cliff Deal was a Raw Deal for Low-Income, Working-Class People
(Matching tags: economy, unemployment, taxes, Fiscal Cliff, EITC, low-income workers, Child Tax Credit)

... poorly compensated workers and for the still weak economy in general. As I understand it, the case for this being a good deal on balance for low-income people comes down to three points: 1) it doesn’t ...

4. Back to Full Employment
(Matching tags: economy, recession, jobs, labor market, unemployment, recovery)

By the conventional “peak to trough” measure, the recession that began in December 2007 ended 18 months later, in June 2009. But you’d be hard-pressed to find much evidence of “recovery” in the labor market.  ...

5. Labor Market Policy Research Reports - December 15, 2012 - January 4, 2013
(Matching tags: economy, labor market, paid sick days, work sharing, education)

...  Access to Paid Sick Days in Portland, Oregon Isela Banuelos and Claudia Williams National Employment Law Project The Low-Wage Recovery and Growing Inequality Political Economy Research Institute ...

6. Young, Educated and Jobless in America?
(Matching tags: economy, jobs, labor market, education, europe, wages, college, unionization)

Today's New York Times has a piece by Steven Erlanger on the "Young, Educated and Jobless in France" that gets most of the facts right, but still might leave its readers with the wrong idea about the real ...

7. What We Can Still Learn from Germany and Denmark
(Matching tags: economy, unemployment, workers, work sharing, Germany, Great Recession)

... the root of the recent developments in each economy. Denmark’s institutions and their extensive opportunities for education, training, and placement of unemployed workers, was positioned to perform well ...

8. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, October 6 – 12, 2012
(Matching tags: economy, labor market, education, women)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past week: Economic Policy Institute Counting up to Green: Assessing the Green Economy and Its Implications for Growth and Equity ...

9. JOLTS and Structural Unemployment
(Matching tags: economy, recession, jobs, unemployment, recovery)

... If the economy suffers from structural unemployment, government policies to boost spending won’t help. Instead, the unemployed need to get retrained for the jobs that are available. Then the unemployment ...

10. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was a Missed Opportunity
(Matching tags: economy, recession, housing bubble, stimulus, recovery)

... helped boost the economy in a situation where it was facing its worst downturn since the Great Depression, it will be remembered more as a lost opportunity than as a transforming set of changes like the ...