Labor

• See how Social Security retirement benefits stack up globally By Julie Zauzmer Weil, The Washington Post, July 21, 2024
  
• F.T.C. Issues Ban on Worker Noncompete Clauses By J. Edward Moreno, The New York Times, April 23, 2024
  
• Donald Trump Is No Friend to the Working Class By K.J. Boyle, The New Republic, January 23, 2024
  
• Seeking Love, With Help From the City Government By John Yoon, The New York Times, August 7, 2023
  
• Stanley Engerman, Revisionist Scholar of Slavery, Dies at 87 By Richard Sandomir, The New York Times, May 27, 2023 
• What Is the Ideal Retirement Age for Your Health? By Dana G. Smith, The New York Times, April 13, 2023
• The Death of “Econ 101” By Unlearning Economics, Current Affairs, October 19, 2022
  
• Has Bidenomics Been Good for Workers? By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, September 5, 2022
  
•  Even in a Hot Economy, Wages Aren’t Keeping Up With Inflation By Jason Furman, The Wall Street Journal, April 12, 2022
  
• Help Wanted: Adjunct Professor, Must Have Doctorate. Salary: $0. By Anemona Hartocollis, The New York Times, April 6, 2022
  
• Employer Practices Limit Workers’ Choices and Wages, U.S. Study Argues By Eduardo Porter, The New York Times, March 7, 2022
• Treasury Report Press Release
  
• Technology and Labor
• AI Could Actually Help Rebuild The Middle Class By David Autor, Noema, February 12, 2024
  
• Tinkering With ChatGPT, Workers Wonder: Will This Take My Job? By Lydia DePillis and Steve Lohr, The New York Times, March 28, 2023
  
• Productivity
• Wave of Job-Switching Has Employers on a Training Treadmill By Sydney Ember and Ben Casselman, The New York Times, January 3, 2023
  
• U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is sure why. By Taylor Telford, The Washington Post, October 31, 2022
  
• The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score By Jodi Kantor and Arya Sundaram and
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• Why Isn’t New Technology Making Us More Productive? By Steve Lohr, The New York Times, May 24, 2022
  
• You may get more work done at home. But you’d have better ideas at the office. By Edward Glaeser and David Cutler, The Washington Post, September 24, 2021
  
• Earnings
• Fastest wage growth over the last four years among historically disadvantaged groups By Elise Gould and Katherine deCourcy EPI, March 21, 2024
• A Job With a Fair Salary? What Pay Transparency Laws Are Revealing. By H. Claire Brown, The New York Times, June 20, 2023
  
• Real Earnings Summary Bureau of Labor Statistics, Recurring Survey
• Discrimination
• What Researchers Discovered When They Sent 80,000 Fake Résumés to U.S. Jobs By Claire Cain Miller and Josh Katz, The New York Times, April 8, 2024
  
• What the Civil War Was About By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, January 2, 2024
  
• Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-Winning Research Shows ‘Why Women Won’ By Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times, October 11, 2023
• An Economics Nobel for Showing How Much Women Matter By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, October 12, 2023
• Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap Sounds, BBC, Tim Harford discusses the work of Nobel Economics prize winner Claudia Goldin
•  2023 Gender Pay Gap Report  By Payscale
  
• Who Discriminates in Hiring? A New Study Can Tell. By Eduardo Porter, The New York Times, June 29, 2021 
• To Make Orchestras More Diverse, End Blind Auditions By Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times, July 16, 2020
  
• The Minimum Wage
• Tragedy Kept Alan Krueger From Claiming a Nobel Prize, but He’s Not Forgotten By Timothy Noah, The Soapbox, TNR, October 14, 2021
  
• How a $15 Federal Minimum Wage Might Affect the Economy | WSJ Wall Street Journal (YouTube Channel), March 2, 2021
  
• No, a $15 minimum wage won’t cost 1.4 million jobs by Arindrajit Dube, The Washington Post, February 24, 2021
  
• The Burger Flipper Who Became a World Expert on the Minimum Wage By Peter Coy, Bloombergbusinessweek, February 3, 2021
  
• Abolish the Racist, Sexist Subminimum Wage By Michelle Alexander, The New York Times, Feb. 5, 2021
  
• The minimum wage: does it hurt workers? By The Economist (YouTube Channel), February 5, 2021
  
• Unemployment
• US economy going strong under Biden – Americans don’t believe it By Dominic Rushe, The Guardian, 15 Sep 2023
  
• Does unemployment really have to rise to bring down inflation? The Economist, August 18, 2022
  
• Number of unemployed persons per job opening, seasonally adjusted Bureau of Labor Statistics
  
• Figuring out efficient unemployment By Pascal Michaillat and Emmanuel Saez, VoxEU, 19 April 2022
  
• Employment Situation Bureau of Labor Statistics, Recurring Survey
• How to Read the Jobs Report Wall Street Journal YouTube Channel, February 4, 2022
  
• Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS) Bureau of Labor Statistics, Recurring Survey
  
•  Unemployment Insurance: Economic Lessons from the Last Two Recessions by Marios Karabarbounis, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Brief, August 2021, No. 21-26
  
• American Unemployment Insurance Is a National Disgrace. It’s Time to Federalize It. By Max B. Sawicky, Jacobin, May 12, 2021
  
• Twitter thread on unemployment insurance in the US By James Leckie, @JamesGLeckie on Twitter, April 10, 2021
  
• Unemployment: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver LastWeekTonight, YouTube channel, March 8, 2021
  
• Should the Feds Guarantee You a Job? By Eduardo Porter, The New York Times, February 18, 2021
  
• How the American Unemployment System Failed By Eduardo Porter, with graphics by Karl Russell, The New York Times, Jan. 21, 2021
• The myth of unemployment benefits depressing work By Catherine Rampell, The Washington Post, August 3, 2020
• Why Japan’s Jobless Rate Is Just 2.6% While the U.S.’s Has Soared By Ben Dooley and Hisako Ueno, The New York Times, June 20, 2020
  
• Why the government makes it hard for Americans to get unemployment benefits  By Sean Illing, vox.com, Apr 24, 2020
  
• Labor Unions
• Job Action Against Tesla Puts Sweden’s Unions in Spotlight By Melissa Eddy, The New York Times, November 6, 2023
  
• Autoworkers Score Big Wins in New Contracts With Carmakers By Jack Ewing and Neil E. Boudette, The New York Times, October 30, 2023 
• Autoworkers Strike a Blow for Equality By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, October 30, 2023
• Why Unions Are Good for America By Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, September 30, 2023
  
• Wonking Out: Making Manufacturing Good Again By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, September 22, 2023
  
• Do Unions Work For The Economy? IntelligenceSquared Debates, YouTube, October 21, 2022
  
•  When McDonalds Came to Denmark By Matt Bruenig, September 20, 2021
  
• President Biden releases pro-union message in advance of Amazon Alabama union vote Forbes Breaking News YouTube Channel, February 28, 2021
  
• At 65%, Approval of Labor Unions in U.S. Remains High by Megan Brenan, Gallup, September 3, 2020
• Why unions are good for workers—especially in a crisis like COVID-19 By Celine McNicholas, Lynn Rhinehart, Margaret Poydock, Heidi Shierholz, and Daniel Perez, Economic Policy Institute, August 25, 2020
  
• Robots and the gender pay gap in Europe BY Cevat Giray Aksoy, Berkay Ozcan, Julia Philipp, VoxEU, 16 July 2020
  
• Shorter Hours Make Stronger Businesses By Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 27, 2020
• Marginal Revolution University Videos
  
• Taxing Work By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, November 22, 2016
• Labor Force Participation By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, November 17, 2016
• Cyclical Unemployment By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, November 15, 2016
• Structural Unemployment By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, November 8, 2016
• Frictional Unemployment By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, November 1, 2016
• Is Unemployment Undercounted? By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, October 25, 2016
• Defining the Unemployment Rate By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, October 18, 2016
• Careers
• Occupational Outlook Handbook Bureau of Labor Statistics 
• Using the Occupational Outlook Handbook for Your Career Search BLS Videos, YouTube, March 22, 2021