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)

... that the wealth effect will stimulate consumption and investment and lower unemployment. But does the S&P 500 drive unemployment?  And how much of an intervention would have been required to ...

2. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, February 23 – March 8, 2013
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, labor market, inequality, unemployment, paid sick days, women, employment)

...  Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Changes in TANF Work Requirements Could Make Them More Effective in Promoting Employment Liz Schott and LaDonna Pavetti Demos Discredited: How Employment ...

3. Gender, Debt, and Dropping Out
(Matching tags: labor market, education, college, women, employment, work, men, college degree, high school degree)

The latest issue of the peer-reviewed academic journal, Gender and Society, has an excellent paper by Rachel Dwyer, Randy Hodson, and Laura McCloud on “Gender, Debt, and Dropping Out of College” (which ...

4. Rising Inequality: Don't Blame the Robots
(Matching tags: jobs, labor market, inequality, workers, unions, employment, globalization)

There is little dispute among economists about the sharp rise in inequality over the last three decades. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the top one percent's share of before-tax income roughly ...

5. Having Your Minimum Wage and EITC, Too
(Matching tags: minimum wage, employment, EITC)

... notes, for example, "find[s] small, if any, impacts of the minimum wage on employment." But, his analysis of the politics is badly misinformed. Here is the way Soltas frames the politics around a minimum-wage ...

6. CEPR News November 2012
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, inequality, unemployment, Haiti, unions, latin america, private equity, employment, marriage, Elections 2012, Fiscal Cliff, Hostess)

... News service that appeared in Newsday, the Providence Journal and several other newspapers across the country, CEPR Co-director Mark Weisbrot reminds everyone that employment, not deficit reduction, should ...

7. Where Have all the Good Jobs Gone? Infographic Edition
(Matching tags: health, jobs, retirement, labor market, education, employment, good jobs)

The recent work of CEPR’s John Schmitt and Janelle Jones shines a harsh spotlight on the dramatic decline in “good jobs” over the last generation.  In Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?, Schmitt and ...

8. $100 Million in Federal Grants Available for States to Promote Work Sharing
(Matching tags: jobs, employment, work-sharing)

This week, the Department of Labor (DOL) posted an invitation to states to apply for federal funds to promote work-sharing (officially called "short-time compensation") programs.  The total amount available ...

9. Three Years with No Increase in the Federal Minimum Wage
(Matching tags: economy, minimum wage, low-wage work, employment)

... even help on the jobs front, by providing much-needed stimulus: “In recent years there have been important developments in the academic literature on the effect of increases in the minimum wage on employment, ...