工作与未来
What does this chart tell us about the US economy?
In the wonkier corners of the internet, the release of new data from the monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey usually produces a graph that can be a bit bewildering to neophytes...
Nick Bunker
Nick Bunker is a Policy Research Associate with the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
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经济增长
US unemployment is relatively low, but wages aren't growing. Why not?
The U.S. unemployment rate has been at or under 5 percent for more than six months. But even though that number is close to many estimates of the long-run unemployment rate, neither infla...
经济增长
Correlation and causality in economics: Can we prove it?
In the most recent interview in our “Equitable Growth in Conversation” series, our own Ben Zipperer talks with David Card of the University of California, Berkeley and Alan Krueger of Pri...
经济增长
What are the basic economics of a guaranteed income?
In the 1975 book “Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff,” economist Arthur Okun coined the phrase “leaky bucket” to describe how efforts to redistribute income might reduce economic e...
公平、多样性和包容性
Could this help us better understand the influence of finance and credit on economies?
Fifty-five years ago, Nicholas Kaldor, a macroeconomist at the University of Cambridge, laid out six “stylized facts” about economies. Kaldor wasn’t just summarizing what economists had l...
经济增长
Does unemployment insurance increase the unemployment rate?
The damage the U.S. labor market endured during and after the Great Recession was massive. The unemployment rate, after rising for 29 months, spiked at 10 percent in October 2009—a level ...
金融和货币体系
Can the US labour market keep up its momentum?
Usually when the government announces new data on the growth of the overall U.S. economy, the attention of the press and analysts jumps to the level of economic growth. But last week, the...
经济增长
Why the US might feel the effects of the Great Recession until 2021
The U.S. labor market recovery from the Great Recession of 2007–09 has been uneven in a number of ways, including by location. While the nation’s overall unemployment rate may be below 5 ...
经济增长
How extending credit can fight recessions
When you’re fighting a recession, you want to use the policies with the most “bang for your buck.” Given what we now know about the potential scarring effects of recessions, using ineffic...
教育与技能
Does inequality increase school dropout rates?
One way that high levels of income and wealth inequality might affect economic growth is through the development of human capital. Inequality could warp workers’ ability to improve their ...
工作与未来
Why less job searching can be a good thing
Prior to the Great Recession of 2007-2009, eligible unemployed workers in the United States could receive unemployment insurance checks for up to 26 weeks. In the wake of the recession an...
工作与未来
How can we boost productivity?
Where does productivity growth come from? The definitive answer to that question would quickly win someone a Nobel prize and the immediate gratitude of economists and policymakers. (Well,...
经济增长
What's to blame for the US productivity slowdown?
With the rise of new internet-based companies and the smartphone as an essential part of many people’s lives, it can be hard to believe that the U.S. economy is lacking for innovation and...
经济增长
Is US wage growth on target?
How’s U.S. wage growth doing these days? According to the January data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, average nominal wage growth for all U.S. workers grew at a 2.5 percent cli...
经济增长
What will the next recession look like?
Recessions, despite the hopes of economists and policymakers during the Great Moderation, are still very much a part of our economic reality. But as this June will mark seven years since ...