labor

发表于 2026-11-11 pressures labor fed

Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics ; Chart: Courtenay Brown/Axios Inflation remained hot in October, according to data from the Labor Department released on Tuesd…

Do immigrants really take jobs and lower wages?

发表于 2024-06-29 planet wages immigrants

We wade into the heated debate over immigrants' impact on the labor market. When the number of workers in a city increases, does that take away jobs from the pe…

Summer School 2: The golden ages of labor and looms

发表于 2024-07-18 bosses ages planet

Who has the power? Workers or bosses? It changes through the ages, though it's usually the bosses. Today, we look at two key moments when the power of labor shi…

Bryan Caplan on Discrimination and Labor Markets

发表于 2006-12-04 discrimination regulation caplan

Bryan Caplan and Russ Roberts discuss the economics of discrimination and government's regulation of labor markets. They talk about the role of the profit motiv…

Mike Munger on the Division of Labor

发表于 2007-04-02 division aiding specialization

Mike Munger of Duke University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts talk about specialization, the role of technology in aiding specialization and how the division of…

Deborah Gordon on Ants, Humans, the Division of Labor and Emergent Order

发表于 2007-08-21 gordon division deborah

Deborah M. Gordon, Professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford University, is an authority on ants and order that emerges without control or centralized author…

Garett Jones on Stimulus

发表于 2011-09-19 hired stimulus garett

Garett Jones of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the workers who were hired with money from the 2009 American Recovery and Re…

Lee Ohanian on the Great Recession and the Labor Market

发表于 2012-08-20 recovery ohanian recession

Lee Ohanian of UCLA talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the recession, the recovery, and the state of labor market. Ohanian describes the unusual aspect…

Mulligan on Redistribution, Unemployment, and the Labor Market

发表于 2012-12-03 recession redistribution mulligan

Casey Mulligan of the University of Chicago and the author of The Redistribution Recession, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. M…

Daron Acemoglu on Inequality, Institutions, and Piketty

发表于 2014-11-03 piketty daron acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu, the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new pape…