Allan Meltzer on the 1930s Fed’s main concern
08 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, great depression, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, Public Choice, unemployment
Has the drop in daily hours worked bottomed out?
05 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
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Source: Homebase at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTf0Ce37p3B0Qy-5BZPh1p9-WwEekPOxVdpMsumy6JFeCIt9EO6ZxbGNpnNxjdf9Mr9USeIMqjq9YU0/pubhtml#
Daily US labour supply #COVID19
01 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - USA, unemployment
Source: Homebase at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTf0Ce37p3B0Qy-5BZPh1p9-WwEekPOxVdpMsumy6JFeCIt9EO6ZxbGNpnNxjdf9Mr9USeIMqjq9YU0/pubhtml#
Finn Kyland on Ireland
31 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economics of regulation, financial economics, macroeconomics, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment
The 1931 massive fiscal contraction should have slowed the NZ recovery if Keynesian macroeconomics is worth more than a grain of salt
31 Mar 2020 7 Comments
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, fiscal policy, great depression, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, public economics, unemployment Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, new classical macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics, New Zealand
100 years on New Zealand unemployment rates
31 Mar 2020 1 Comment
in business cycles, economic history, great depression, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, unemployment Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics, New Zealand
Novak and Davidson on interwar unemployment
31 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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A century of Australian unemployment rates
30 Mar 2020 1 Comment
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From https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/previousproducts/1301.0feature%20article142001
The unemployment rate then increased rapidly to 19.3% in 1930, before reaching a peak of 29.0% in 1932, in response to the economic conditions of the Great Depression. This unprecedented high rate of unemployment persisted for two years, before the unemployment rate fell rapidly to below 10% by 1937.
How much of economy has #COVID19 locked-down?
30 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics, labour economics, labour supply, unemployment Tags: economics of pandemics
NZ government cut everything that could be cut by 20% in 1931
29 Mar 2020 7 Comments
in business cycles, economic history, fiscal policy, great depression, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, unemployment Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics
The dangers of inaccurate statistics
24 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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The Bill That Killed Freelance
11 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of religion, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: employment law
The ‘Negativity Effect’ Leads to Bad Journalism, Big Government, and Busted Relationships
06 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, gender, health and safety, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: pessimism bias
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