News
WSJ | Euro-Zone Jobs Market Stabilizes
The euro-zone jobs market stabilized in the six months to September, according to employment figures released Friday, bringing an end to a long decline in the number of people at work in the 17 countries that use the euro.
CNBC | How unemployment benefits destroy jobs
We've been extending unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed for years now. This has provided needed relief to the jobless but it is very likely contributing to the problem of unemployment.
Econ Comments & Analysis
Fortune | A blueprint for creating better jobs - and bigger profits
In all the sound and fury over the minimum wage, and the current boom in low-paying, dead-end jobs, nobody is questioning a crucial assumption: More investment in labor would have to come out of consumers' and shareholders' pockets.
Blogs
Library of Economics | Labor Economists vs. Signaling
Signaling has been one of economists' more successful intellectual exports. After Spence and Arrow developed the signaling model of education in the 1970s, the idea soon spread to sociology, psychology, and education research. While few experts are staunch converts, most grant that the idea is plausible and the evidence suggestive. Yet strangely, there is one body of experts that sees little or no merit in the signaling model: labor economists, particularly those who specialize in education.
