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Updated and near-final version of āu* = āuvā: pascalmichaillat.org/13/ By request of the good comm people at Brookings, who were worried that the title was maybe too cryptic, the paper now comes with the subtitle āThe full-employment rate of unemployment in the United Statesā.
This paper argues that in the United States the full-employment rate of unemployment is the geometric average of the unemployment and vacancy rates.
Their paper which extracts key themes and summarizes lessons for policy is available here -but they also made the interviews available because there is SO much more richness in them than one paper can do justice to hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
š£Amazing data trove alert - FULL TEXT of interviews w/ 100 senior UK decision-makers on regional policy over the last five decades from my coauthors on UK regional inequality: Dan Turner, Nyasha Weinberg, Esme Elsden, Ed Balls sites.harvard.edu/uk-regional-...
Prospective PhDs - please read and circulate. Writing a statement of purpose is really hard, especially if you don't have advice from people on the admissions committee side. This thread is VERY useful. (yes, it's from the other place) x.com/cblatts/stat...
Agree re the time bomb of falling real income for non college men. Even steeper and longer trend in the US and we are likely seeing the resultsā¦
In all age groups too. Real wage performance since late 2000s has been really bad
Yes - really bad real wage performance for nearly 2 decades, since GREAT recession - UK wages and productivity have fallen well behind comparable countries. Itās not good at all.