Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Mark Thoma draws my attention today to a paper by Henry Siu and Nir Jaimovich that ...

The economy may go through boom and bust cycles on a regular basis, but don't expect job growth to be part of the upswings any more. Future recoveries from recession will likely be "jobless" because ...

Men face being squeezed out of the best-paying jobs because they cannot compete with the face-to-face confidence of female rivals, a study has found. It said women were winning the battle for success ...

MORE bad news for the middle class: when the economy recovers, jobs in the middle won't. That is the conclusion of an important new study that connects a long-term trend in the labour market with the ...

During a recession, consumers trade down in the quality of the goods and services they buy — and because lower- quality products are generally less labor-intensive, this trading down reduces the ...

Let's face it: the U.S. economy just doesn't recover like it used to. The jobs don't come back as fast, and the effect seems to linger longer. What gives? A new paper, by Duke's Nir Jaimovich and the ...

Do tax cuts help the economy grow? Most economists would say yes. Certainly during a recession, tax cuts — especially those targeting low-income people who are likely to spend the extra money — have a ...

Citations: Anderson, Eric T., Duncan Simester, Nir Jaimovich. 2015. Price Stickiness: Empirical Evidence of the Menu Cost Channel. Review of Economics and Statistics. (4) ...

Roombas may look cute, but not when they're taking your job. By Alex Hern The Washington Post‘s Dylan Matthews highlights a new NBER working paper (£) by Duke University’s Nir Jaimovich and the ...