unemployment
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Technical Education at a Community College Improves Graduates’ Future Earnings
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A new NBER working paper shows how many Career Technical Education programs in California’s community college system increase earnings by larger amounts.
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The Unintended Consequence of Mandatory Child Care in Chile
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A new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research estimates the impact of mandatory childcare on the wages of women in Chile.
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Countdown to Election: Quinn v Rauner, who’s telling the truth about Illinois’ economy?
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“Illinois has added 257,000 private sector jobs.” This is what voters see when they look at Governor Quinn’s evaluation of job growth under his administration, but if they scroll over to Bruce Rauner’s Bring Back Blueprint, they will see “Illinois lost 26,000 private sector jobs.” In politics it is generally…
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Solving a Labor Crisis or Exploiting Foreign Tech Workers? The H-1B Visa in Review
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While the tech industry claims that H-1B visas help address labor shortages and bring in the best and brightest engineers, data shows that they can drive down wages and indenture migrant workers.
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Minimum Wage Increases: The Unintended Consequences
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Increases in minimum wages appear to help some poor families escape poverty while having the perverse effect of dragging other families below the poverty line.
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Minimum Wage: The Nobel Thing to Do
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Despite the widely held view that minimum wages generate unemployment, some Nobel-winning economists have argued that labor markets are more complex than predicted by economic theory.
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Do you want a higher minimum wage with that?
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This classic study of fast food restaurants challenged economic orthodoxy on the minimum wage.
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Do Employers Care About Potential Employees’ Long-term Unemployment Spells?
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Long-term unemployment spells do not influence employers’ hiring decisions according to new research in the American Economic Review.
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An Irrational Decision? Preventative Care Use Declines During High Unemployment
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A new study suggests that preventative care has lower demand during high unemployment because it has an immediate cost but a delayed benefit.
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The Job-Skills Mismatch
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Understanding why the US economy has done a poor job of matching workers to openings in the wake of the Great Recession.
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America’s Prisons: Warehouses or Criminal Creators?
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A study of Cook County Courts seeks to pinpoint the true effects of imprisonment on employment and recidivism.