Showing posts with label Labor Economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Labor Economics. Show all posts
Sunday, April 12, 2009

The great career experiment

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“ In choosing careers, young people look for signals from society, and Wall Street will no longer pull the talent that it did for so many ye...
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Monday, March 31, 2008

Are you on the job market

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via Economic Populist
Monday, March 24, 2008

Making Indian Bureaucrats happy

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India's Pay Commission Report is out ; With poll calculations dominating the UPA government’s agenda, the more than four million-strong ...

Changing structure of the Indian economy

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Human capital and the changing structure of the Indian economy Summary: Using panel data for the fourteen major states of India over the 198...

DeLong Morning Coffee-Free vs. Fair Trade

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The question of "free" versus "fair" trade , has three baskets: an environmental regulation basket, a labor-standards an...
Sunday, March 23, 2008

Industrial Relations laws in Australia

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

The Financial News You Missed

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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Tax Policy in Down Under

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THE Rudd Government should scrap dividend imputation credits and instead reduce the company tax rate by about a third if it wants to increa...
Friday, March 14, 2008

Indian Guest-workers in New Orleans and their American Dream

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A shipyard in the US state of Mississippi is accused of using a "guest worker" programme to exploit hundreds of workers from India...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Unions and school performance

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Unhappy with that C for your school on the report card? Think that the “instructor” didn’t take all the proper measurements under considerat...
Friday, February 22, 2008

Bloomberg's New York and secrets of its success

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New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg told World Bank Group employees in Washington Thursday that "the free, global movement of labo...
Thursday, February 14, 2008

The Economics of Immigration

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George Borjas discusses US immigration policy Related; " The Economic Benefits from Immigration ," Journal of Economic Perspective...
Sunday, February 10, 2008

Another legacy from a Republican President

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George W. Bush is in line to be the first president since World War II to preside over an economy in which federal government employment ros...

Writers strike to end

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Hollywood writers union leaders meet to approve strike deal Related; Working Man Blues: The Decline of Unionization
Sunday, February 3, 2008

Bloomberg's Cuts

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With an already dim fiscal picture turning darker, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Thursday proposed a budget that would increase spending by...
Saturday, January 26, 2008

Why Labor Unions are good

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Richard Freeman on Colbert Related; America Works: Critical Thoughts on the Exceptional U.S. Labor Market by Richard B. Freeman
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Why was Martin Luther King in Memphis

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King went to Memphis to support African American garbage workers, who were on strike to protest unsafe conditions, abusive white supervisors...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Colbert and Daily Show's writers on Letterman

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Doing the Top Ten list- The Demands of the Striking Writers ;
Tuesday, January 8, 2008

The Exceptional U.S. Labor Market!

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Ronald L. Seeber on The Daily Show Richard Freeman on The Colbert Report Related; America Works: Critical Thoughts on the Exceptional U.S....
Thursday, January 3, 2008

Justin Wolfers Lecture

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He talked about Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees Wolfers is now guest blogging at Freakonomics blog See also earlier post Career Adv...