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- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Add the renewed growth of the US auto industry, which set all-time sales records in 2015 and helped Detroit’s unemployment rate drop to its lowest in 15 years; add the phenomenon that is Dan Gilbert, the billionaire businessman who made...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Growth within the EU has been sluggish, with high unemployment and low investment in R&D. The EU has launched a set of reforms to create a "single passport" system of mutual recognition within the EU for capital, services,...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
season and what it will take to win over anxious customers. Here's what they said. Jill J. Avery: Mind the details and focus on customer service Persistent unemployment plagues many families, and people are saving more and spending less...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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A Summit Higher Than Everest
while the Explorers Club expedition formed, so had its geopolitics. At home, any hope that the American economy would rebound after Black Tuesday had disappeared as wages declined and unemployment grew, plunging the nation into what would...
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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
policies that maintain a low level of average inflation. Purchase the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13754 Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1
unemployment in South Africa was still at 24%. While the country had grown at 4% to 5% annually during the 2000s, the financial crisis set it back by 1 million more unemployed. Moreover, it seemed as if the nation were stuck between...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model with Monopsony Author: Julio J. Rotemberg Publication: Supplement. Journal of Monetary Economics 55 (October 2008): 97-110 Abstract A monopsony model with a symmetric equilibrium is developed...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
consistent with the slope of the line of the rate of resignations we were seeing before Covid—but we’re seeing a low unemployment rate. So people are churning as much as anything else. What do you hear from your affiliates and from your...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Latinx workers are vulnerable to the staff cuts that target less-tenured and less-senior workers. These vulnerabilities build upon years of higher unemployment rates and lower college enrollment in STEM fields for minority workers....
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
basically launched SkillUp back in the summer of 2020 to meet the immediate needs of that time to help a worker find a job—let’s get someone a job who has been displaced. So fast-forward 12 to 15 months. The labor market had changed significantly. View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
because unemployment levels are at historic lows in the United States, in most of the European countries. It’s a very tight market still.Kerr: Yeah. We’re going to build upon this. You’ve done a great piece of recent research where you’ve...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Colleges are under a ton of pressure right now. I think, both in the short run—the kind of fallout from Covid and the slow progress and regaining kind of the enrollment trend before then, getting students to come back. The fact that we have very low View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
crumbling infrastructure, and high unemployment these days — is the $842 million National Gateway rail-transport improvement project. CSX is putting up half of the price tag, while six states and the District of Columbia are kicking in a...
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- 13 Dec 2017
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Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
Stock market is better. The unemployment rate is down. The borders are more secure. ISIS looks more vulnerable. We have a phenomenal Supreme Court Justice. I mean, I can go on and on and on. And Congress, including the Republicans are in...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
really in a messy situation early on with all these unemployment claims. So over a single weekend, we were capable of bringing on 200 robots to help getting the relief into the hands of their constituents.Kerr: Amazing examples. And maybe...
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