4 days ago by George Lenard

Of course, everyone has opinions about the economy in general, the financial crisis, the bailout bill, and what the next President should do about them — and what the candidates should say about these topics in tonight’s debate. (Actually, it’s a pretty wimpy debate format: I understand there are to ...

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11 days ago by Economic Logician

Now that Congress seems due to pass this horrible bailout bill, let us reflect a little on one provision that seems to have sweetened the deal: limits to executive compensation. CEO pay has been controversial for a while now, so it is natural to ask whether they are worth it. This is what Marko Terv ...

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18 days ago by Dawn Wolfe

Are you looking to keep the gold flowing during your Golden Years? Does the idea of a retirement spent sitting in a rocking chair or playing golf seen like Purgatory? Do you need to keep working for financial reasons? If you answered, “Yes,” to any of the above, this week is for you. National Employ ...

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19 days ago by sirsatire

The only remaining American-made superhero has been found dead in New York City, authorities said today. Most of the remains of Kent Stark — better known as “Spectacular Man” — were found yesterday just outside an abandoned building. Police say Spectacular Man had been flying at a high rate of speed ...

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23 days ago by liza

A summary of the key findings from the 2007 Survey of Employers who have Recently Advertised (SERA) published by the New Zealand government in March 2008 showed that there was widespread skill and labour shortages in the country. “Only 54% of the advertised vacancies included in SERA 2007 were fille ...

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25 days ago by Economic Logician

Following up on yesterday's post on how little time unemployed people spend searching for a job, I claim that we need to model unemployment differently. We need to realize that there are some people who activily search, and others that consider an unemployment spell to be a vacation (or a temporary ...

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26 days ago by Economic Logician

When we model economic behavior with micro-foundations and are interested in unemployment, we need to take a stand about what the unemployed worker is doing with his time. Remember that work gets remunerated, and that is because work is not leisure, work is something would prefer not doing if there ...

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33 days ago

The Fed bailout got all the news this weekend, as it should. But don't forget the weak job report from Friday. The combination of employment woes, falling house prices, and the credit crunch means that we are about to move...

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35 days ago by fester

By Fester: Today's employment and unemployment numbers were ugly. The unemployment rate went to 6.1%, another 84,000 jobs were cut in the initial August estimates after the July estimate was increased to a job loss of 100,000 jobs, and wage gains are significantly below inflation. The US economy has ...

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36 days ago by Rusty Weston

Lost in the heated rhetoric of the endless immigration debate is the basic fact that people want to go where there is work and governments want to regulate the matter. In a tight labor market it’s not surprising to see workers relocate for the right opportunity. In a recent study Manpower reports th ...