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Arindrajit Dube
arindube
Today @USCBO released its projections for $15/2025 min wage. Here are some thoughts on their employment estimate. Tl;dr. They used same evidence (11 studies) as 2019 report but UPweighted more
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Council of Economic Advisers
WhiteHouseCEA
The economy added only 49,000 jobs in January, after losing a revised 227,000 jobs in December. This pace is far below the rate necessary to pull us out of the
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
doctorow
My latest @locusmag column is "Full Employment," in which I forswear "Fully Automated Luxury Communism" as totally incompatible with the climate emergency, which will consume 100%+ of all human labor
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Anna Stansbury
annastansbury
CBO forecasts are out.Some early reports have suggested the CBO forecast revisions are cause for optimism. Not so fast!My key takeaway: Forecasts have been upgraded from a *catastrophically* slow recovery
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Tony Wilson
tonywilsonIES
Covid and the labour market: we've new analysis today, showing how >5m workers were still away from jobs or on reduced hours at end of Sept- with worrying signs that
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Adam Ozimek
ModeledBehavior
A very broad big economic theory I loosely hold... for the past X decades, the global economy has had a speed limit set by inelastic energy supply. When things start
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Black Thrive
BlackThrive
Meet our grantees! Our Employment Project Community Working Group allocated a grand total of £122k across these 8 inspiring projects, that will test new approaches to providing employment support
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Sophie Yeo
some_yeo
I've been thinking about all that rewilding discussion yesterday, and there seems to be a meaningful parallel with the Just Transition discussion that has taken place in climate circles –
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Kate
katewand
“The word mandatory kind of sets people off... because you envisage someone being held down and forcibly injected against their will,” she says. “What we mean, in our paper, is
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International Collective
intcoll1
Illegal job offers are way too common in Australia and unfortunately migrants are the most vulnerable to this kind of exploitation. Let's review one such job ad that came to
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Rob O'Donnell
odonnell_r
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS THREADCan I be Discriminated Against for Political Affiliation or Activity?A private employer may lawfully terminate an individual’s employment on the basis of that person’s political affiliation or
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Usman Tariq
UsmanTariq
Great question. It is vital to hear from female solicitors about why they are not applying to the Bar. However, if I was to guess, I imagine it is a
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Stephen Tapp 🇨🇦 🌎
stephen_tapp
Today's Labour Force Survey:• #CdnEcon added 419k jobs in July (mostly part-time), which brings employment now to 1.3 million jobs (or 7%) below pre-COVID levelshttps://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/200807/dq200807a-eng.htm
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Adam Ozimek
ModeledBehavior
A lot of people seem comforted by the Fed downplaying NAIRU as sufficient to prevent hiking too soon in the future, but I think this is affected by recency bias....
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Diane Swonk
DianeSwonk
Warning about the weekly UI claims data out today. The data is an a mess. Many UI claims now represent multiple attempts by workers still unable to get the UI
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Gilad Isaacs
GiladIsaacs
Why should we be careful when talking about a “jobs bounce-back” in South Africa? - A THREAD. You don’t get better labour market economists in South Africa than the @NIDS_CRAM
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