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Friday, November 18, 2011

Employment

News                                                                                                                             
CNN: Money | Unemployment claims fall to another 7-month low
Amid the Great Recession, weekly initial claims had risen as high as 659,000 in March 2009. As the job market started to improve, they eventually retreated to as low as 375,000 in February this year.

Blogs                                                                                                                             
Econlog | Dan Hamermesh: Let's Regulate Labor Markets Even More
Daniel Hamermesh has presented data showing that, all else equal, ugly people do worse economically and are less happy than the non-ugly.