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Unions and Productivity

Lucas Meets Gogol

Why You Should Major in Econ: Short and Sweet Version

An Honest Slogan for SAG: "Don't Quit Your Day Job"

Gender in EJW

Best Advice I've Heard in Months

Free Lunch at SXSW?

It's Not Just Me: Further Background on Blacks' Return to Education

Regressions By Popular Demand: Black Education Pays Extra

Ostracism for "Acting White": Is It Really "Unavoidable"?

Tim Harford Replies

The Truth Hurts: What Harford Didn't Say About Statistical Discrimination

What's Keeping American Workers Safe?

How Glen Whitman Fights Statistical Discrimination

Elasticity Bleg

Why Is There a Glass Ceiling for Straight Shooters?

Discrimination in Academia: Lessons Beyond the Ivory Tower?

Why Are Women Doing So Well in the Labor Market?

Fortune Favors the Bold; Markets Favor the Meek

From Tabarrok Town to Caplan Land: Summers Moves in the Right Direction

Unions and Productivity

Lucas Meets Gogol

Why You Should Major in Econ: Short and Sweet Version

An Honest Slogan for SAG: "Don't Quit Your Day Job"

Gender in EJW

Best Advice I've Heard in Months

Free Lunch at SXSW?

It's Not Just Me: Further Background on Blacks' Return to Education

Regressions By Popular Demand: Black Education Pays Extra

Ostracism for "Acting White": Is It Really "Unavoidable"?

Tim Harford Replies

The Truth Hurts: What Harford Didn't Say About Statistical Discrimination

What's Keeping American Workers Safe?

How Glen Whitman Fights Statistical Discrimination

Elasticity Bleg

Why Is There a Glass Ceiling for Straight Shooters?

Discrimination in Academia: Lessons Beyond the Ivory Tower?

Why Are Women Doing So Well in the Labor Market?

Fortune Favors the Bold; Markets Favor the Meek

From Tabarrok Town to Caplan Land: Summers Moves in the Right Direction

My Contigency Plan

Unemployment

Key Labor Market Indicator

Kevin Lang on Wage Differentials

"The Hidden Gender Restriction"; or, the Economics of Waiting to Exhale

Have Sexual Harassment Policies Affected the Marriage Market?

The Symbolic Value of Abolishing the Minimum Wage

You Support the Minimum Wage. May I Ask Why?

Economists for a Higher Minimum Wage

What Incentives Does Statistical Discrimination Give?

Another Reason Why Reading Econ Blogs Is More Fun Than Vacation

Real Caricature

Jane Shrugged

Podcasting: A New Experience

Are Husbands Really Like Potatoes?

Gary Becker on the Minimum Wage

Polygamy, Jealousy, and Social Peace

Becker on Polygamy

New Phelps Phan

Bad News on Employment

The Birth Order Illusion

Labor Market Dynamics

From Comic-Con to Econ

French Labour Markets

My Advice to Tyler on the Econ Ph.D.: Lighten Up

New Illustration of the Folly of the Minimum Wage

Some of My Best Friends Aren't Liberal

IQ, Achievement Motivation, and Culture

Two Educational Heresies: Ability Bias vs. Signaling

Outsource Your Future

GMU Gratitude

Looking for an Honest Job

The Joy of Market-Clearing Wages

What is a Modern Recession?

Hitler's Argument for Conquest

Sin City and the Bizarre World of Entertainers' Unions

"Do the Opposite": Efficiency Wages and Incentives for Employer Candor

Unionization's Decline, a Human Capital Story

The Forgotten Men

Most Economically Literate Movie of the Year

Trade Conference

Wages Move Toward Equilibrium

Labor Market Puzzle

Measuring Labor Income

Double-Counted Jobs?

Disintermediation and Outsourcing

Are Workers Getting Good Jobs?

Barbell Labor Market?

Hours Worked In the U.S. vs. Europe

The Minimum Wage, Con't

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Jobs Come Marching

Grocery Workers Strike?

The Two Employment Surveys

The Two Employment Surveys, Again

Jobs and Tax Cuts

Measuring Employment

Economists as Heretics

Block that Free Lunch

Saving Jobs from Outsourcing

Where are the Jobs?

Immigrant Labor Market Issues

Collective vs. Individual Benefits

Cost-of-Living Arbitrage

Immigration Reform

The Employment Situation


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June 16, 2008

Unions and Productivity



Ezra Klein writes, It's an article of faith for some on the right that unions wreck productivity. Not in the......MORE

June 10, 2008

Lucas Meets Gogol



One of Robert Lucas' most notable insights is that human capital (unlike, say, oil) moves from where it is scarce......MORE

June 4, 2008

Why You Should Major in Econ: Short and Sweet Version



Jeff Miron has a whole op-ed on the wonders of the undergraduate econ major. But I think I can put......MORE

May 26, 2008

An Honest Slogan for SAG: "Don't Quit Your Day Job"



From the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly:[S]ome producers fear that a strike is inevitable - especially since an estimated 80......MORE

May 5, 2008

Gender in EJW



The latest issue of Dan Klein's Econ Journal Watch is out, featuring a brainy symposium on gender balance in the......MORE

April 17, 2008

Best Advice I've Heard in Months



Well, it doesn't apply to me, but it's still great advice:One piece of advice for young women. Do a whole......MORE

March 9, 2008

Free Lunch at SXSW?



I had a shockingly large turnout for my talk at SXSW Interactive in Austin. But the real surprise came during......MORE

February 20, 2008

It's Not Just Me: Further Background on Blacks' Return to Education



After blogging some simple regressions showing that, contra Harford, blacks actually have an unusually high return to education, I emailed......MORE

February 18, 2008

Regressions By Popular Demand: Black Education Pays Extra



In my critique of Harford's chapter on statistical discrimination, I wrote:But is it really true that the market fails to......MORE

February 16, 2008

Ostracism for "Acting White": Is It Really "Unavoidable"?



There seems to be a lot of demand for me to blog some of my Harford-related regressions on black versus......MORE

February 14, 2008

Tim Harford Replies



Check it out.......MORE

February 13, 2008

The Truth Hurts: What Harford Didn't Say About Statistical Discrimination



I'm a fan of Tim Harford's Logic of Life, and I'm a big promoter of the explanatory power of statistical......MORE

February 5, 2008

What's Keeping American Workers Safe?



Fun facts from Kip Viscusi's article on "Job Safety" in David Henderson's encyclopedia: Annual OSHA penalties for safety violations (2002):......MORE

January 12, 2008

How Glen Whitman Fights Statistical Discrimination



As I've argued before, the best way to fight negative stereotypes is for people unfairly subject to the negative stereotype......MORE

January 10, 2008

Elasticity Bleg



What is a standard estimate for the wage-elasticity of labor demand? Anyone?......MORE

December 3, 2007

Why Is There a Glass Ceiling for Straight Shooters?



Most people would like to be described as "straight shooters." (I think). And many straight shooters are very successful. However,......MORE

November 7, 2007

Discrimination in Academia: Lessons Beyond the Ivory Tower?



More than one attendee at the Social Philosophy and Policy conference voiced dismay over David Horowitz's promotion of the Academic......MORE

October 20, 2007

Why Are Women Doing So Well in the Labor Market?



Profit-maximizing employers should be gender-blind, right? Well, not quite. If, given all other information, women are less profitable to employ......MORE

October 19, 2007

Fortune Favors the Bold; Markets Favor the Meek



Shrewd labor economics from the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly:For an actor, speaking out about contract demands may seem like......MORE

October 11, 2007

From Tabarrok Town to Caplan Land: Summers Moves in the Right Direction



Alex Tabarrok doubts there's much discrimination against right-wing academics; I beg to differ. Now I'm getting some support from a......MORE


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