Anti-Dismal

From Bloggingheads.tv comes this interview of David Neumark by Glenn Loury about the effects of the minimum wage.

A brief summary of the state of play. First, the evidence on the disemployment effect of minimum wages is contested, and there clearly are ...

There is a new NBER working paper out on The Econometrics and Economics of the Employment Effects of Minimum Wages: Getting from Known Unkn...

In an interesting and provocative article  at Bloomberg Noah Smith discusses recent empirical research that suggests that higher minimum wa...

An interesting new twist on the effects of children on the pay gap between men and women. It has long been argued that having kids is one re...

In a recent article at VoxEU.org Marco Francesconi and Matthias Parey write on Early gender gaps among university graduates . A summary of ...

A couple of graphs make this point. and These graphs come from a column at Vox . The column is A stunning chart shows the true cau...

Claudia Goldin (Professor of Economics at Harvard University) writes, in the New York Times , on How to Win the Battle of the Sexes Over Pay...

In 2013, Autor, Dorn, and Hanson published a paper in the American Economic Review showing that rising import competition from China has be...

A recent working paper from the Penn Institute for Economic Research reviews the empirical evidence on the effects of a minimum wage on emp...

In short, big. A new paper just out in the Journal of Political Economy (vol. 125, no. 2, April 2017, pp. 293-337) look at " The Car...

You have to love a heading like that! It comes not from me but from the ever insightful Don Boudreaux at the Cafe Hayek blog. Boudreaux is...

At the Cafe Hayek blog Don Boudreaux makes the point that protection does not stop job losses . You are correct that under a regime of fr...

Here's a paradox you don't hear much about: despite a century of creating machines to do our work for us, the proportion of adults ...

May be not immediately but over time they do. Tyler Cowen makes the point in an article at Bloomberg . Most likely, there is a big differ...

New research suggests that women earn, on average, around 31% less that men in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) subjec...

From Fox News Latino , Pope Francis has added his voice to the feminist anthem of equal pay for equal work, saying it's "scandalo...

In a new NBER working paper Alex Edmans, Lucius Li, and Chendi Zhang study the relationship between employee satisfaction and abnormal stoc...

An important question given the grow we have seen in larger retailers in New Zealand and around the world. The question is studied in this n...

We are often told by politicians and interests groups how many jobs this project or that project will create, as if jobs are somehow a benef...