
The economic impact of Britain’s three-day week from 1 January to 11 March 1974 #COVID19
27 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economic history, health economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, unions
Lee Ohanian on Japan’s Lost Decade
27 Mar 2020 6 Comments
in business cycles, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, Edward Prescott, fiscal policy, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics
How much of 20th century growth were one-off productivity gains?
25 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice
Edward Prescott on the #GFC
24 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, Edward Prescott, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, public economics Tags: real business cycle theory, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply

The dangers of inaccurate statistics
24 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, econometerics, economic history, great depression, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, monetary economics, unemployment
What is new and true in efficiency wage theory?
24 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, personnel economics

From Y. Weiss et al. (eds.), Advances in the Theory and Measurement of Unemployment
Another reversing gender gap
21 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: reversing gender gap
Ellen McGrattan in real business cycle models
21 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, Edward Prescott, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: real business cycle theory

Ireland’s worst bank strike lasted 6-months
20 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, financial economics, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, unions Tags: economics of banking, union power

Stephen Pinker on gender equity
20 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, offsetting behaviour, political correctness, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences









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