Econ Comments
Washington Post | A healthy dynamic in job creation: Destruction
The U.S. economy has become less dynamic and entrepreneurial.
Investors | 10-Year Real Wage Gains Worse Than During Depression
The past decade of wage growth has been one for the record books — but not one to celebrate.
WSJ | Brain Gain and Drain
How America loses by pushing away immigrant talent.
Blogs
Calculated Risk | Labor Mobility: Starting to Increase
In 2010, there were a record low percent of job seekers who relocated for a new position (percent of those who found jobs). The percentage picked up a little in Q1 2011, but it is an easy comparison to last year.
WSJ: Real Time Economics | Obama Likely to Face Highest Jobless Rate of Any Postwar Incumbent
Barack Obama is likely to confront the highest unemployment rate that any U.S. president seeking re-election has ever faced since the second World War, a private think tank predicted Thursday.
