Unemployment
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How to Ask for a Raise
If you want to renegotiate and ask for different terms, that should be seen as just doing business. If it works, great. If it does not, you have to choose whether to stay.
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Maybe Bosses Do Wear Bunny Slippers
There are some clear advantages to the gig economy, for both workers who have specialized skills and for companies trying to remain small and nimble.
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The Job Guarantee Strikes Back
Economist John Miller of Wheaton College wrote a sharp critique this week of my work on the job guarantee. I was pleased to see it. In nearly five months, Miller is the first economist on the left to respond on the basis of economics rather than retreating to blanket declarations that job-guarantee opponents are either…
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The Downsides and Dangers of Mission Making
Mission making turns economic decision-making into a political conflict of interest groups possessing bargaining power in the halls of government to determine what gets done, in what ways, and for whose benefit.
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A Bona Fide Tax Revolt in France
Politicians and activists who blithely maintain that public support for lofty climate change projects is both bottomless and selfless are either obtuse or tacitly agitating for tyranny.
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The Real Path to Lower Unemployment
There are ways to not just create jobs but empower people to do work of greater value.
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The Job Guarantee: A Critical Analysis (Executive Summary)
A federal job guarantee would be monumentally expensive, return only limited value from the participants’ work, entail administrative challenges nearly impossible to solve, and be potentially disastrous for economic growth and the private labor market.
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Your First Job: Real Costs of the Minimum Wage
The minimum wage is only the most visible portion of what quickly amounts to a vast array of considerable, often unseen costs.
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Proposed Federal Jobs Guarantee Is Too Big to Exist
The federal jobs guarantee, as spelled out in Democratic policy circles, would arguably be the largest public intervention in the economy in American history.
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Temporary Employment Doesn’t Have to be a Bad Deal for Workers
Is the American economy’s creation of fewer traditional full-time jobs a sign of weakness, or just changing times?
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How to Ask for a Raise
If you want to renegotiate and ask for different terms, that should be seen as just doing business. If it works, great. If it does not, you have to choose whether to stay.
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•
Maybe Bosses Do Wear Bunny Slippers
There are some clear advantages to the gig economy, for both workers who have specialized skills and for companies trying to remain small and nimble.
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•
The Job Guarantee Strikes Back
Economist John Miller of Wheaton College wrote a sharp critique this week of my work on the job guarantee. I was pleased to see it. In nearly five months, Miller is the first economist on the left to respond on the basis of economics rather than retreating to blanket declarations that job-guarantee opponents are either…
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•
The Downsides and Dangers of Mission Making
Mission making turns economic decision-making into a political conflict of interest groups possessing bargaining power in the halls of government to determine what gets done, in what ways, and for whose benefit.
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•
A Bona Fide Tax Revolt in France
Politicians and activists who blithely maintain that public support for lofty climate change projects is both bottomless and selfless are either obtuse or tacitly agitating for tyranny.
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•
The Real Path to Lower Unemployment
There are ways to not just create jobs but empower people to do work of greater value.
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•
The Job Guarantee: A Critical Analysis (Executive Summary)
A federal job guarantee would be monumentally expensive, return only limited value from the participants’ work, entail administrative challenges nearly impossible to solve, and be potentially disastrous for economic growth and the private labor market.
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•
Your First Job: Real Costs of the Minimum Wage
The minimum wage is only the most visible portion of what quickly amounts to a vast array of considerable, often unseen costs.
-
•
Proposed Federal Jobs Guarantee Is Too Big to Exist
The federal jobs guarantee, as spelled out in Democratic policy circles, would arguably be the largest public intervention in the economy in American history.
-
•
Temporary Employment Doesn’t Have to be a Bad Deal for Workers
Is the American economy’s creation of fewer traditional full-time jobs a sign of weakness, or just changing times?