Employment
Why Move? A Better Home, Family, Own Household, Job Commuting and Marriage
Men were more likely than women to move for job-related reasons. Better-educated people were more likely to move for job-related reasons than those with lower education levels. Married respondents were the least likely to move for family-related reasons. Reasons such as "change of climate," "health reasons" and "natural disaster," were each cited by fewer than 1% of householders. more »
High-tech, High-skilled and High-paying Careers: Selling Manufacturing to a New Generation
Pamela Prah writes: Nationwide, US employers reported in 2013 that skilled trades positions were the most difficult to fill, the fourth consecutive year this category has topped the list. A 2011 industry report estimated that as many as 600,000 manufacturing jobs were vacant because employers couldn’t find the skilled workers to fill them, including machinists, distributors, technicians and industrial engineers.
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We All Know That Anything a Man Can Do, a Woman Can Do Just as Well, Right?
Even when the interviewees had the chance to tell the employers about how well they expected to do on an upcoming arithmetic test, the economists found that the bias remained in place because men tend to boast and to inflate their abilities, which the hirers were willing to believe. The findings also suggest that both sexes discriminate against women without realizing that they do so. more »
Longer-Term Challenges for the American Economy: "The overall economic pie is expanding more slowly than before"
There is no single explanation for the rise in inequality and the decline in the share of jobs that provide a middle-class standard of living. Economists generally agree that technological change and globalization have played a role. Both of these forces have reduced the demand for workers whose jobs had involved routine work that can easily be mechanized or offshored while, at the same time, increasing the productivity of higher-skilled workers. However, it is less clear whether technology and globalization are sufficient explanations for the increased share of income going to those at the very top of the income distribution. more »