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When was the Sick Man of Europe on a 3-day week for 10 weeks? #COVID19
27 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, labour supply, macroeconomics, unions
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
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
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
Black Americans Failed by Good Intentions: An Interview with Jason Riley
05 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: affirmative action, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Richard Epstein, “The Coming Meltdown in Labor Relations”
02 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, gender, health and safety, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Richard Epstein, survivor principle, unions Tags: affirmative, employment law, racial discrimination, sex discrimination, union power, union wage premium
Does neoclassical macroeconomics rule out depressions?
27 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, econometerics, economic history, Edward Prescott, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, public economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment, unions Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, new classical macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics, real business cycle theory
Will @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren revive unions from the dead?
10 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, politics - USA, unions Tags: 2020 presidential election, union power
In California, Protecting Workers Means Outlawing Their Jobs
06 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm, unions Tags: employment law, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Do Unions Raise Wages?
24 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, labour economics, labour supply, unions Tags: union power, union wage premium
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