News
Market Watch | U.S. jobless claims jump to 380,000
The number of Americans who applied for jobless benefits last week rose to the highest level in two and a half months, partly because some school workers can file claims during spring break.
Econ Comments & Analysis
NBER | Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management
This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers.
Blogs
Calculated Risk | Labor Force Participation Rate Projection Update
A key issue is what will happen to the labor force participation rate as the economy slowly recovers. In 2010 I looked at some of the cyclical and long term trends for the participation rate: Labor Force Participation Rate: What will happen? I concluded that a majority of the recent decline in the participation rate is due to changes in demographics.
