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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Where the Jobs Are
With U.S. economic recovery limping along and unemployment hovering above 9 percent, the Washington debate over regulatory and tax policies needed to spur economic revival has shifted into high gear. Outside the Washington Beltway, among... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
A Sustainable Success Story
County property. “Big picture,” he notes, “this was 2009, and we were newcomers in a rural area where the unemployment rate was 15 percent. We wanted to protect the forest for future generations, but we also started wondering if there... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W15551 Labor Regulations and European Private Equity Authors:Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
prisons, and garbage collection among them — has been attempted, When All Else Fails argues that government has been and will inevitably continue to be the nation's ultimate risk manager and insurer of last resort. Drawing on history and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
without coverage in the United States — to establish a tax-supported way to fund their health care. That said, in my view, meaningful reform almost always begins in the private sector. I am encouraged that many employers are offering new choices in health View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
benefits." As with his health insurance study, Olds acknowledges personal motivations for looking into the effects of SNAP. "I've never seen my mother working harder than when we were on Food Stamps, so I was skeptical that... View Details
- Web
Riding the WAVE | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
graduation, returning to her hometown of Lagos, Nigeria, to make good on the organization’s mission to combat youth unemployment by identifying, training, and placing graduates of the program’s 3-week training program in entry-level jobs.... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
saw 2.6 percentage points higher unemployment among their government workers,” researchers Daniel Green and Erik Loualiche write in a recent working paper, State and Local Government Employment in the COVID-19 Crisis. “A... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
illustration by Pablo Amargo illustration by Pablo Amargo There is a doctor shortage in the United States, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, which predicts that the deficit could increase to more than 90,000 doctors by 2025. Meanwhile, the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
supply of skilled workers. Since unemployment rates for college graduates are much lower than for non-graduates and average incomes materially higher, more young people would presumably move down the path to economic independence.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
for properties in Lagos’s well-to-do neighborhoods, but even there the power grid is so unreliable that tenants need to supply their own generators. Local suppliers were limited, so Dozie and his brother had furniture made to order and imported paper cups from China.... View Details
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
in part because the population is aging. A key question for policymakers centers on whether local labor markets can adjust or whether a population drop tied to robots will lead to persistent levels of View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
a lark, Gain Life partnered with an insurance company to see if its apps could help people who are out of work on shortor long-term disability or workers’ compensation. This market has only a handful of competitors and big bottom-line... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
government and industry. Participants will discuss programs that the government could employ to help guide industry toward international competitiveness. A session titled "South Africa's Labor Relations" will be presided over by the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
while creating new jobs more or less commensurate with the skills of the displaced workers. But things have changed since the technology is now able to think as well as perform tasks It is not easy to convert today's manual laborers to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
recession, when high unemployment rates lessened the demand for traveling nurses to answer the short-term staffing needs of hospitals around the country. “I call that part ‘hanging off the cliff,’” Moreno notes. With the implementation of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
of H-1B temporary foreign workers are at ‘Level IV’ (above the median wage) officially defined by the Department of Labor as those who are ‘fully competent.’” On the other hand, Ted G. argued, “The View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
revolutionizing everything from online payments and wealth management to cybersecurity and insurance through digital technologies as diverse as blockchain and artificial intelligence. Despite being the world’s financial capital and home... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
drug and the FDA says it is safe and effective and doctors prescribe it, insurance generally will pay for it. But everyone is getting fed up with that approach—the ‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli did not help—and we’ve reached a critical mass... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
providers, abetted by legislators and insurance companies, have made it virtually impossible for them to succeed. Unlike any other U.S. industry, consumers do not set prices, yet they provide all the money through taxes for government... View Details