Econ Comments & Analysis
NBER | Do Male-Female Wage Di fferentials Reflect Diff erences in the Return to Skill? Cross-City Evidence From 1980-2000
Over the 1980s and 1990s the wage differentials between men and women (with similar observable characteristics) declined significantly. At the same time, the returns to education increased.
Blogs
Tax Foundation | Taxes and the Outsourcing of U.S. Jobs
International business taxation and its role in outsourcing are heating up as major election-year political issues. At a campaign stop in Cincinnati last week, President Obama cited a new report as evidence that Mitt Romney’s territorial tax reform proposal would push jobs abroad
AEI | How to think about jobs numbers
President Obama frequently touts the fact that the economy has created 4.4 million new private-sector jobs over the past 28 months, being careful to add the caveat that we can’t be satisfied with the state of the labor market.
