Finance & Economy
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The Education Gap: Helping Explain Unemployment Trends Across U.S. Cities
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Education gaps – the differences between cities’ supply and demand for educated workers – may explain differences in economic recovery and provide cues for future policy interventions.
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Municipal CFO Series: Ronald Green, Houston
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Houston’s CFO explains why the time is right for cities to invest in infrastructure
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Honor Thy Parents, Inhabit Their Basement
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Returning to cohabitation with parents proves to be a valuable form of labor market insurance
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Debt in the Bank: CEOs, Compensation, and Risk
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A working FDIC paper examines the relationship between compensation, CEO risk behavior, and long-term firm solvency.
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Municipal CFO Series: Natwar Gandhi, Washington, D.C.
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Washington D.C.’s CFO discusses how the District regained its AAA status and moved from deficit to surplus
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Who Isn’t Paying the Rent?: Gender Discrepancies in Eviction
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A new study examines the prevalence of eviction in the lives of low-income women living in Milwaukee.
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Negotiating Your Way Out of the Binder
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What role does the willingness to negotiate for salaries play in the gender gap?
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You Break It, They Try It
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OSHA’s Chief of Staff discusses how the agency leverages limited resources to keep America’s workers safe
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We Rise Together: The Benefits of Regional Economic Clustering
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Policies to encourage economic clusters have benefits larger than the sum of their parts
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Where is the Money? Taxation Reform in Latin America
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A new Inter-American Development Bank report examines the consequences of Latin American taxation systems and outlines a potential way forward
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Fiscal Cliff Imminent: Where We’re Heading
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Bob Greenstein talks about tax policy, the recession, and what to expect from the fiscal cliff