Anti-Dismal

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

Morgan Foy writes in the September 2019 issue of the NBER Digest on the question, Is the Phillips Curve Still a Useful Guide for Policymak...

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 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...

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...

James Bessen deals with this issue in a new column at VoxEU.org . A common argument you see with regard to computers and employment is that...

Previously I have noted papers that deal with the effects of long-term unemployment, see here , here , here and here . Now Tim Harford is w...

Previously I have noted papers that deal with the effects of long-term unemployment on re-employment, see here , here and here . These pape...

An important question since if they do and you are unemployed then you are likely to remain unemployed. This leads to a group of long term u...

An interesting new paper on Economic Freedom and Labor Market Conditions: Evidence from the States by Lauren R. Heller and E. Frank Stephen...

I have made the point that the longer you are unemployment the less likely it is that you will become employed before but more evidence con...

No really! The following is a summary by Lester Picker, from the latest (March 2013) NBER Digest , of the findings of the paper,  Duratio...