Must- and Should-Reads: August 6, 2017
- Nick Bunker: Weekend reading: “Watching the labor market flows go” edition: “Liz Hipple summarizes some of the key points from a new report by antitrust expert James Kwoka… https://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/weekend-reading-watching-the-labor-market-flows-go-edition/
- Gérard Roland and David Yang: Cultural change and intergenerational transmission: Some lessons from China’s Cultural Revolution: “The Cultural Revolution… the shutdown of the Chinese university system between 1966 and 1976… http://voxeu.org/article/cultural-change-and-intergenerational-transmission
- Fatih Guvenen, Greg Kaplan, Jae Song, and Justin Weidner: Lifetime Incomes in the United States over Six Decades: “From the cohort that entered the labor market in 1967 to the cohort that entered in 1983… http://www.nber.org/papers/w23371
- Equitable Growth: Jobs Day Graphs: July 2017 Report Edition: “Earlier this morning, The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released new data on the U.S. labor market during the month of July… https://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/equitable-growths-jobs-day-graphs-july-2017-report-edition-2/
- Paul Krugman: Obamacare Rage in Retrospect: “Why did Obamacare survive? The shocking answer: It’s still here because it does so much good… https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/opinion/obamacare-rage-in-retrospect.html
Interesting Reads:
- Patrick Gillespie: Brazil is still in its worst recession in history http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/07/news/economy/brazil-gdp-2016/index.html
- Harold Pollack (20120: Health reform: it’s having each other’s back: “Obamacare-related increase in price of Papa John’s pizza ? 11 cents. Ensuring working Americans have a health care safety net? Priceless…” https://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2012/08/17/health-reform-its-about-having-each-others-back
- Erin Beck: WV Gov. Justice: AHCA would ‘cripple’ WV: “Justice said Thursday that congressional Republican leaders’ plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act ‘would cripple us beyond belief.’…” http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-health/20170629/gov-justice-ahca-would-cripple-wv