News
WSJ | Wireless Jobs Vanish
The U.S. wireless industry is booming as more consumers and businesses snap up smartphones, tablet computers and billions of wireless applications. But for the industry's workers, the story is less rosy.
WSJ | Dearth of Demand Seen Behind Weak Hiring
The main reason U.S. companies are reluctant to step up hiring is scant demand, rather than uncertainty over government policies, according to a majority of economists in a new Wall Street Journal survey.
Econ Comments
Bloomberg | Why Employers Are Slow to Fill Jobs: Business Class
Yet skill mismatch is by no means the whole story. Recent research points to a shift in recruiting behaviour by employers as another important factor.
Blogs
Political Calculations | How Much Are Geezers Displacing Teens from the U.S. Workforce?
So in terms of geezers competing directly with teens for minimum wage earning jobs, we find that there is some of that going on, however young adults are more likely to have displaced teens from the U.S. federal minimum wage earning workforce that are older workers, but it's nearly 50-50.
Reports
NBER | Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection: Evidence from Europe
In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational distribution of natives with similar education and age.
