39 days ago by Economic Logician

Since the start of this blog, one of the most popular posts has been one that analyzes the long-term costs of slavery in Africa. Of course, it is about the consequences in regions where slaves were taken from. There is also a region where they have been taken to, that is South Africa. What has been ...

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44 days ago by Economic Logician

Robert Lucas has pushed the idea that business cycles are not that costly that they would need intervention, and the real business cycle literature, at least the early one, has anyway advocated that the government should stay out of this kind of business. It is true that long term growth and underst ...

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45 days ago by Econometrics Group

So, how far is your dollar stretching these days? We know, not very far. It seems that almost everything costs more today than it did last year at this time. Well, in fact almost everything does cost more. But wait, the BLS states that consumer inflation has increased only 3.4%. Really? Well, you ca ...

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47 days ago by Lena

(Reuters) - Shoppers found a mixed bag of bargains and so-so deals on Monday, as a day off for many Americans and warm, dry weather lured some out for what was likely to be the third busiest shopping day of the holiday season. Chains were also hoping that shoppers coming in to redeem the millions of ...

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47 days ago by Vivek Jayakumar

According to an interesting new study of top VC backed firms: “Among those with immigrant founders are Silicon Valley darlings like textbook-rental start-up Chegg, online dating service Zoosk, and online craft marketplace Etsy. The most common country of origin for immigrant founders from the top 50 ...

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54 days ago by Lena

As Congress jockeys over emergency stimulus measures that are set to expire soon, economists warned Monday that congressional inaction could spell further woes for the already sputtering economy, making an stagnant labor market even worse. If Congress doesn't continue a payroll tax break for working ...

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58 days ago by Ranjit

The good: Initial jobless claims last week were at their lowest level in three and a half years, back to May 2008, before the financial panic hit and before the recession had been declared. The four-week average is at its lowest level since July 2008. Last week’s number still looks high (366,000), b ...

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58 days ago by Economic Logician

There is unfortunately still some discrimination left in labor markets. Literature has shown that in particular race and gender may matter in some cases, as well as beauty. While this is usually demonstrated by looking at the significance of some characteristic dummies that should not matter in hiri ...

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58 days ago by Крис

Вярвам, че има работа, която е неподходяща за един човек и подходяща за друг. През последните 5 години завърших бакалавър, а след това и магистратура и сега си търся работа. Обаче както казах и преди, не си търся каква да е работа, а работа, която да е свързана с образованието ми; работа, която да в ...

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66 days ago by Jim Luke

Continuing what has turned into a short series on unemployment and structural unemployment in particular (see Monday and yesterday’s posts), let us look at some of the claims that structural unemployment. First up, Brad Delong points us to Kevin Drum who tells the following story: Kevin Drum: Skille ...

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