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JOLTS Day Graphs: March 2018 Report Edition

By Nick Bunker,

May 8, 2018

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

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Weekend reading: “jobs and skills” edition

By Nick Bunker,

May 4, 2018

Nick Bunker,

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: April 2018 Report Edition

By Nick Bunker, Austin Clemens, Kate Bahn,

May 4, 2018

Nick Bunker, Austin Clemens, Kate Bahn,

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How inequalities of wealth matter for consumption

By Nick Bunker,

April 19, 2018

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality, Taxes, Inequality & Growth

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JOLTS Day Graphs: February 2018 Report Edition

By Nick Bunker,

April 13, 2018

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Job Mobility

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Issue brief: Employers may be behind the problems with U.S. hiring

By Nick Bunker,

April 12, 2018

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

Weekend reading: “monopsony and March jobs market” edition

By Nick Bunker,

April 6, 2018

Nick Bunker,

post

The flat Phillips Curve and U.S. labor’s share of income

By Nick Bunker,

March 27, 2018

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

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JOLTS Day Graphs: January 2018 Report Edition

By Nick Bunker,

March 16, 2018

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

What would lead to monetary overshooting by the Fed?

By Nick Bunker,

March 6, 2018

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

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Weekend reading: “Gluts, booms, and crashes” edition

By Nick Bunker,

March 2, 2018

Nick Bunker,

post

Understanding the importance of household credit in high-income economies

By Nick Bunker,

February 28, 2018

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt

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Weekend reading: “diminishing demand” edition

By Nick Bunker,

February 23, 2018

Nick Bunker,

post

How income inequality may affect U.S. interest rates

By Nick Bunker,

February 19, 2018

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

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Weekend reading: “A jolt in the markets” edition

By Nick Bunker,

February 9, 2018

Nick Bunker,

post

How does unconditional cash affect the labor market?

By Nick Bunker,

February 8, 2018

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Job Mobility

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JOLTS Day Graphs: December 2017 Report Edition

By Nick Bunker,

February 6, 2018

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

Who benefits from the booming U.S. stock market?

By Nick Bunker,

January 30, 2018

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality

post

JOLTS Day Graphs: November 2017 Report Edition

By Nick Bunker,

January 9, 2018

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

#ASSA2018: Day three roundup

By Nick Bunker,

January 7, 2018

Nick Bunker,

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#ASSA2018: Day two roundup

By Nick Bunker,

January 6, 2018

Nick Bunker,

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#ASSA2018: Day one roundup

By Nick Bunker,

January 5, 2018

Nick Bunker,

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The 10 most popular Value Added posts of 2017

By Nick Bunker,

December 28, 2017

Nick Bunker,

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JOLTS Day Graphs: October 2017 Report Edition

By Nick Bunker,

December 11, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

Weekend reading: “Last minute edits” edition

By Nick Bunker,

December 1, 2017

Nick Bunker,

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Ten years after the beginning of the Great Recession, is it time to abandon the natural rate hypothesis?

By Nick Bunker,

December 1, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

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The blueprint for a perpetual wealth machine for the very richest U.S. families

By Nick Bunker,

November 9, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality, Individual Taxation, Taxes, Inequality & Growth

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JOLTS Day Graphs: September 2017 Report Edition

By Nick Bunker,

November 7, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

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Weekend reading: “Winners, losers, and tax plans” edition

By Nick Bunker,

November 3, 2017

Nick Bunker,

post

Policy rules and central bank independence

By Nick Bunker,

October 31, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

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Weekend reading: tax “reform” edition

By Nick Bunker,

October 20, 2017

Nick Bunker,

post

Just how tight is the U.S. labor market?

By Nick Bunker,

October 12, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: GDP 2.0, Job Mobility

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JOLTS Day Graphs: August 2017 Report Edition

By Nick Bunker,

October 11, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

The forces behind the highly unequal U.S. wealth distribution

By Nick Bunker,

October 10, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality, Individual Taxation

post

Old companies may be slowing down the U.S. economy

By Nick Bunker,

October 4, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Labor

post

Weekend reading: “Triennial data release” edition

By Nick Bunker,

September 29, 2017

Nick Bunker,

post

An update on the state of wealth inequality in the United States

By Nick Bunker,

September 28, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality, Monetary Policy

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Weekend reading: “Discussing distributional tables” edition

By Nick Bunker,

September 22, 2017

Nick Bunker,

post

Another lesson from the 1930s for the Federal Reserve

By Nick Bunker,

September 19, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

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Markups, macroeconomics, and the changing U.S. economy

By Nick Bunker,

September 14, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

JOLTS Day Graphs: July 2017 Report Edition

By Nick Bunker,

September 12, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

Weekend reading: “One inequality measure to rule them all?” edition

By Nick Bunker,

September 1, 2017

Nick Bunker,

post

When the next recession hits, how will fiscal stimulus affect government debt sustainability?

By Nick Bunker,

August 31, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy

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Weekend reading: “Jolting news this week!” edition

By Nick Bunker,

August 11, 2017

Nick Bunker,

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The importance of equitable growth for future mobility in the United States

By Nick Bunker,

August 10, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Mobility

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JOLTS Day Graphs: June 2017 Report Edition

By Nick Bunker,

August 8, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

Measuring potential GDP in the United States, and the case for emphasizing demand in monetary policy

By Nick Bunker,

August 7, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: GDP 2.0, Monetary Policy

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Weekend reading: “Watching the labor market flows go” edition

By Nick Bunker,

August 4, 2017

Nick Bunker,

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Weekend reading: “Boosting the competition” edition

By Nick Bunker,

July 21, 2017

Nick Bunker,

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Recessions, recoveries, and racial employment gaps in the United States

By Nick Bunker,

July 19, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Race & Ethnicity

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Is declining competition causing slow U.S. business investment growth?

By Nick Bunker,

July 18, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Competition

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Weekend reading: “Let’s make this post more democratically accountable” edition

By Nick Bunker,

July 14, 2017

Nick Bunker,

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Must-Read: Ryan Avent: Making Monetary Policy Great Again

By Nick Bunker,

July 13, 2017

Nick Bunker,

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Are economic boom-and-bust cycles stronger when capital is more available?

By Nick Bunker,

July 12, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt

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JOLTS Day Graphs: May 2017 Report Edition

By Nick Bunker,

July 11, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

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Weekend reading: “Post-Jobs Day” edition

By Nick Bunker,

July 7, 2017

Nick Bunker,

post

Equity, efficiency and education spending in the United States

By Nick Bunker,

June 27, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Families

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Childcare & Early Education, K-12

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Weekend reading: “If you liked those links, check out these” edition

By Nick Bunker,

June 23, 2017

Nick Bunker,

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Is the Fed being misguided by the Phillips curve?

By Nick Bunker,

June 21, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power, Monetary Policy

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Weekend reading: Shifting targets edition

By Nick Bunker,

June 16, 2017

Nick Bunker,

post

Time for the Fed to look beyond 2 percent target inflation?

By Nick Bunker,

June 13, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

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Who loses disability insurance when it’s harder to apply?

By Nick Bunker,

June 12, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Families

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Wellbeing, Health

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JOLTS Day Graphs: April 2017 Report Edition

By Nick Bunker,

June 6, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

Monetary policy via income redistribution

By Nick Bunker,

June 5, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality, Monetary Policy

post

Weekend reading: “Unstable incomes, uncertain world” edition

By Nick Bunker,

June 2, 2017

Nick Bunker,

post

What unconventional policies are likely to stay in central bankers’ toolkits?

By Nick Bunker,

May 30, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

U.S. over-education and underemployment over the course of a lifetime

By Nick Bunker,

May 23, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power, Job Mobility

post

Just how big does the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet need to be?

By Nick Bunker,

May 18, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

A reminder on the current size of the gig economy

By Nick Bunker,

May 17, 2017

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Labor Inequality & Mobility

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power, Economic Mobility

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Home is where the government subsidy is

By Nick Bunker,

May 16, 2017

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Tax & Macroeconomics Families

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt, Economic Wellbeing, Individual Taxation, Taxes, Inequality & Growth

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How the opening to China may have partially fueled the U.S. housing bubble

By Nick Bunker,

May 11, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Tax & Macroeconomics Families

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt, Economic Wellbeing

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JOLTS Day Graphs: March 2017 Report Edition

By Nick Bunker,

May 9, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

Changes in U.S. lifetime income inequality

By Nick Bunker,

May 8, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality, Gender

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Some very worrying trends in U.S. lifetime income growth

By Nick Bunker,

May 4, 2017

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TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality, Gender

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What’s going to reduce U.S. corporate savings?

By Nick Bunker,

May 3, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Business Taxation

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Should policymakers worry about the level of debt or the pace of credit growth?

By Nick Bunker,

May 1, 2017

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TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt

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Weekend reading: “Link pass-through entity” edition

By Nick Bunker,

April 28, 2017

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post

Macro-prudential financial regulations versus capital controls

By Nick Bunker,

April 25, 2017

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post

What would rules-based monetary policy look like?

By Nick Bunker,

April 20, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

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U.S. income inequality trends in the 21st century

By Nick Bunker,

April 17, 2017

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TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality

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Weekend reading: “This post has intangible assets” edition

By Nick Bunker,

April 14, 2017

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post

A new way to look at how U.S. firms affect their workers’ pay now and in the future

By Nick Bunker,

April 12, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Mobility, Job Mobility

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JOLTS Day Graphs: February 2017 Report Edition

By Nick Bunker,

April 11, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

How corporate profit-shifting distorts the measurement of U.S. productivity

By Nick Bunker,

April 10, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Business Taxation, Taxes, Inequality & Growth

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Weekend reading: “Diversity, discrimination, and wage gaps” edition

By Nick Bunker,

April 7, 2017

Nick Bunker,

post

Time for an inflation rethink?

By Nick Bunker,

April 5, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

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Weekend reading: “Looking to Alaska” edition

By Nick Bunker,

March 31, 2017

Nick Bunker,

post

Another take on declining productivity growth in high-income countries

By Nick Bunker,

March 28, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: GDP 2.0

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What kind of fiscal policy works best at the zero lower bound?

By Nick Bunker,

March 23, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt, Fiscal Policy

post

How life experiences affect the views of U.S. monetary policymakers

By Nick Bunker,

March 21, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

JOLTS Day Graphs: January 2017 Report Edition

By Nick Bunker,

March 16, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

Changing sources of inflationary pressures in the United States

By Nick Bunker,

March 15, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

A potentially new and rising concern: inflation inequality in the United States

By Nick Bunker,

March 14, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality

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Weekend reading: “Time to mark this up” edition

By Nick Bunker,

March 10, 2017

Nick Bunker,

post

The connection between U.S. unemployment and rising opioid abuse

By Nick Bunker,

March 7, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Families Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Health

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Weekend reading: “From gender norms to level targeting” edition

By Nick Bunker,

March 3, 2017

Nick Bunker,

post

Thinking about levels when it comes to macroeconomic policy targets

By Nick Bunker,

March 2, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

Declining business dynamism and illusive allocative efficiency

By Nick Bunker,

February 28, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Concentration

post

Weekend reading: “Adjusting to the new borders” edition

By Nick Bunker,

February 24, 2017

Nick Bunker,

post

What’s the problem a U.S. corporate tax cut will solve?

By Nick Bunker,

February 23, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Business Taxation

post

Modeling the decline in U.S. interest rates

By Nick Bunker,

February 14, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: GDP 2.0

post

Weekend reading: “low probability event” edition

By Nick Bunker,

February 10, 2017

Nick Bunker,

post

JOLTS Day Graphs: December 2016 Report Edition

By Nick Bunker,

February 7, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

What’s behind the decline in U.S. interest rates?

By Nick Bunker,

February 6, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

An uncertain time at the Federal Reserve

By Nick Bunker,

February 1, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy, Wage Stagnation

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Weekend reading: the fiscal multipliers, childcare, and maximum employment edition

By Nick Bunker,

January 27, 2017

Nick Bunker,

post

Demographics, robots, and global economic growth

By Nick Bunker,

January 24, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Inequality & Mobility Tax & Macroeconomics Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: GDP 2.0, Wage Stagnation

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When recessions happen, who’s most at risk?

By Nick Bunker,

January 23, 2017

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: GDP 2.0, Income & Earnings Volatility, Monetary Policy

post

Outsourcing and rising wage inequality in the United States and Germany

By Nick Bunker,

January 18, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monopsony, Wage Stagnation

post

Weekend reading: “Thawing out from #ASSA2017” edition

By Nick Bunker,

January 13, 2017

Nick Bunker,

post

Rising U.S. business concentration and the decline in labor’s share of income

By Nick Bunker,

January 10, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Competition Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Concentration, Wage Stagnation

post

#ASSA2017 Day 3 roundup

By Nick Bunker,

January 8, 2017

Nick Bunker,

post

#ASSA2017 Day 2 roundup

By Nick Bunker,

January 7, 2017

Nick Bunker,

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#ASSA2017: Day 1 roundup

By Nick Bunker,

January 6, 2017

Nick Bunker,

post

U.S labor market tightness, hiring, and the decline in job switching

By Nick Bunker,

January 4, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Job Mobility

post

The 10 most popular Value Added posts of 2016

By Nick Bunker,

December 22, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Weekend reading: “Disaggregating data” edition

By Nick Bunker,

December 16, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Is U.S. investment capital flowing to the best possible destinations?

By Nick Bunker,

December 15, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Taxes, Inequality & Growth

post

What could boost U.S. business investment?

By Nick Bunker,

December 13, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Concentration

post

Weekend reading: “Distributional national accounts and declining mobility” edition

By Nick Bunker,

December 9, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

The importance of equitable growth to absolute mobility in the United States

By Nick Bunker,

December 8, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Mobility, GDP 2.0

post

How tight is the U.S. labor market? And how tight do we want it?

By Nick Bunker,

December 7, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor Inequality & Mobility

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power, GDP 2.0

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Lack of market competition, rising profits, and a new way to look at the division of income in the United States

By Nick Bunker,

November 22, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Concentration

post

An update on the U.S. labor market from the September JOLTS report

By Nick Bunker,

November 9, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

Weekend reading: “Delivering equitable growth” edition

By Nick Bunker,

November 4, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Technological change and upskilling in the labor market

By Nick Bunker,

November 3, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Job Mobility

post

Business taxation, retained earnings, and measuring income inequality

By Nick Bunker,

November 2, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Tax & Macroeconomics Inequality & Mobility

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Business Taxation, Economic Inequality, Taxes, Inequality & Growth

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Recessions happen. But how often?

By Nick Bunker,

October 31, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

Weekend reading: “Flexing market power” edition

By Nick Bunker,

October 28, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Is monopsony important for understanding the U.S. labor market?

By Nick Bunker,

October 27, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Competition Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Concentration, Monopsony

post

What does macroeconomic policy look like when people aren’t perfectly rational?

By Nick Bunker,

October 26, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

New research on market power and productivity

By Nick Bunker,

October 25, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Competition

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Concentration

post

Weekend reading: “Supply and demand aggregated together” edition

By Nick Bunker,

October 21, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

What are the effects of cash transfers on U.S. workers across generations?

By Nick Bunker,

October 20, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Families Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Wellbeing, Minimum Wage

post

Yellen poses important post-Great Recession macroeconomic questions

By Nick Bunker,

October 18, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

Weekend reading: “You’ve contracted out your reading links” edition

By Nick Bunker,

October 14, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

How much bigger can the U.S. labor force get?

By Nick Bunker,

October 13, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

post

A Nobel Prize for modeling contracts

By Nick Bunker,

October 12, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Competition Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Antitrust Enforcement

post

Do extended U.S. unemployment insurance benefits reduce employment?

By Nick Bunker,

October 11, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Unemployment Insurance

post

Weekend reading: “Antitrust in the 21st Century” edition

By Nick Bunker,

October 7, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Why do long-term unemployed Americans face difficulties finding jobs?

By Nick Bunker,

October 6, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Unemployment Insurance

post

Thinking about U.S. antitrust enforcement in the 21st century

By Nick Bunker,

October 5, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Competition Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Concentration, Monopsony

post

Weekend reading: “Working on the supply chain” edition

By Nick Bunker,

September 30, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Geographic mismatch might not be a big deal for U.S. unemployment

By Nick Bunker,

September 29, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economics of Place, Job Mobility

post

What’s the optimal tax for capital income?

By Nick Bunker,

September 28, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Taxes, Inequality & Growth

post

Underemployment for recent U.S. college graduates

By Nick Bunker,

September 26, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Job Mobility

post

Weekend reading: “Grantee conference week” edition

By Nick Bunker,

September 23, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Declining U.S. labor mobility is about more than geography

By Nick Bunker,

September 22, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economics of Place, Job Mobility

post

Equitable Growth’s inaugural grantee conference

By Nick Bunker,

September 21, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Unemployment and models of U.S. consumption

By Nick Bunker,

September 20, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Unemployment Insurance

post

Weekend reading: “the indispensable U.S. corporate income tax” edition

By Nick Bunker,

September 16, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

The private sector offers up new U.S. home mortgage options

By Nick Bunker,

September 15, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt

post

Who pays U.S. taxes on inheritances?

By Nick Bunker,

September 13, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality, Taxes, Inequality & Growth

post

How intensely are U.S. employers looking for workers?

By Nick Bunker,

September 12, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

Weekend reading: “Read this in 3D” edition

By Nick Bunker,

September 9, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

The U.S. corporate income tax in a time of high profits

By Nick Bunker,

September 8, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Business Taxation

post

Inequality of income, wealth, or consumption? How about all three?

By Nick Bunker,

September 7, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality, GDP 2.0

post

Weekend reading: “Climbing out the Jackson Hole” edition

By Nick Bunker,

September 2, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Looking beyond GDP when measuring welfare

By Nick Bunker,

September 1, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Families Inequality & Mobility

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Wellbeing, GDP 2.0

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How often do Americans not pay federal taxes and receive government assistance?

By Nick Bunker,

August 31, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Taxes, Inequality & Growth

post

Only a hint of new thinking at Jackson Hole

By Nick Bunker,

August 30, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

How U.S. consumption behavior changes during recessions

By Nick Bunker,

August 25, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Retiring in the United States amid low interest rates

By Nick Bunker,

August 24, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Families Tax & Macroeconomics

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Wellbeing, Monetary Policy

post

Weekend reading: “Rich spatial controls” edition

By Nick Bunker,

August 19, 2016

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post

Subprime auto loans are not the second coming of the U.S. mortgage crisis

By Nick Bunker,

August 18, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt

post

Would cutting the U.S. corporate income tax boost wages significantly?

By Nick Bunker,

August 17, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Business Taxation, Taxes, Inequality & Growth, Wage Stagnation

post

Why slightly higher inflation might benefit the U.S. economy

By Nick Bunker,

August 16, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

Weekend reading: “Accelerating wage growth is here” edition

By Nick Bunker,

August 5, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Persistent economic disadvantage and education inequality in the United States

By Nick Bunker,

August 3, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality, K-12, Poverty

post

Federal budget deficits, U.S. interest rates, and rates of return

By Nick Bunker,

August 2, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

Does stronger wage growth mean it’s time to hike interest rates?

By Nick Bunker,

August 1, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy, Wage Stagnation

post

Weekend reading: “How many Big Macs will that minimum wage buy?” edition

By Nick Bunker,

July 29, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

The permanent income hypothesis, wealth inequality, and anti-recessionary stimulus

By Nick Bunker,

July 27, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Protecting against risk can help boost U.S. entrepreneurship

By Nick Bunker,

July 26, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Mobility, Paid Leave

post

Did the Great Recession reduce U.S. productivity growth?

By Nick Bunker,

July 25, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Weekend reading: “Luck of the Irish GDP” edition

By Nick Bunker,

July 22, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Weekend reading: “Slipping on rungs of the income ladder” edition

By Nick Bunker,

July 15, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

How other nations handle student debt and what the United States could learn from them

By Nick Bunker,

July 14, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Families Tax & Macroeconomics

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Post-secondary Education

post

A graphical update on the latest data on the U.S. jobs market

By Nick Bunker,

July 13, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

Technological change and the future demand for labor

By Nick Bunker,

July 12, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: GDP 2.0

post

The potential costs of “short-termism” to U.S. economic growth

By Nick Bunker,

July 11, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Tax & Macroeconomics Inequality & Mobility

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Business Taxation, GDP 2.0

post

Weekend reading: “June jobs day” edition

By Nick Bunker,

July 8, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Have mutual funds boosted CEO pay in the United States?

By Nick Bunker,

July 7, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Competition Inequality & Mobility

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Concentration, Economic Inequality

post

The importance of childhood education and the birth lottery for U.S. innovation

By Nick Bunker,

July 6, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Mobility

post

Weekend reading: Celebrating U.S. independence edition

By Nick Bunker,

July 1, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

The continued rigidity of wages in the United States

By Nick Bunker,

June 30, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Job Mobility

post

How the U.S. housing boom hid weaknesses in the labor market

By Nick Bunker,

June 29, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

post

The roles of firms and pay decisions in rising U.S. income inequality

By Nick Bunker,

June 28, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality

post

Weekend reading: “Heading for the Brexits” edition

By Nick Bunker,

June 24, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Making automatic stabilizers more effective for the next U.S. recession

By Nick Bunker,

June 23, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Unemployment Insurance

post

What’s behind the decline in male labor force participation in the United States?

By Nick Bunker,

June 22, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Job Mobility

post

International capital flows and secular stagnation

By Nick Bunker,

June 21, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

Determining the natural rate of interest

By Nick Bunker,

June 20, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

Weekend reading: Job openings, the state of women, the No-Job-Loss criterion, and more!

By Nick Bunker,

June 17, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

How wealth and income inequality may affect U.S. economic downturns

By Nick Bunker,

June 16, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality

post

ICYMI: Heather Boushey’s remarks at The White House United State of Women Summit

By Nick Bunker,

June 16, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Are U.S. government economic surveys reaching the right mix of respondents?

By Nick Bunker,

June 15, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: GDP 2.0

post

U.S. labor market frictions and occupational licensing

By Nick Bunker,

June 14, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Job Mobility

post

The open questions about the rise of U.S. job openings

By Nick Bunker,

June 13, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

Weekend reading: “elusive employment effects” edition

By Nick Bunker,

June 10, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

The level of the U.S. corporate income tax rate is important, but it’s not everything

By Nick Bunker,

June 8, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Business Taxation

post

Are low-interest rates contributing to low business investment?

By Nick Bunker,

June 7, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: GDP 2.0, Monetary Policy

post

The problematic returns of for-profit colleges

By Nick Bunker,

June 6, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Families

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Post-secondary Education

post

Weekend reading: “Last weekend was the long one” edition

By Nick Bunker,

June 3, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

What happens if the “unicorn” bubble bursts?

By Nick Bunker,

June 2, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

What happened to America’s dynamism?

By Nick Bunker,

May 31, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economics of Place, Job Mobility

post

Weekend reading: Memorial Day long weekend edition

By Nick Bunker,

May 27, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Why public assistance for children should address what happens before birth

By Nick Bunker,

May 26, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Families

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Health

post

U.S. tax policy complicated by falling taxes on U.S. stocks

By Nick Bunker,

May 24, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Business Taxation

post

Weekend reading: “Production innovation” edition

By Nick Bunker,

May 20, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

How high levels of inequality might change what innovation we see

By Nick Bunker,

May 19, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality, GDP 2.0

post

Equity crowdfunding is here. Now what?

By Nick Bunker,

May 17, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Competition

post

Maybe central banks should buy stocks as well

By Nick Bunker,

May 16, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

Weekend reading: “Friday the 13th” edition

By Nick Bunker,

May 13, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

The shifting fate of the U.S. labor market

By Nick Bunker,

May 12, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

The shadow incarceration casts on employment and income gains

By Nick Bunker,

May 11, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: GDP 2.0, Race & Ethnicity

post

How important was leverage after the U.S. housing bubble burst?

By Nick Bunker,

May 10, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt

post

Weekend reading: “Working papers, interactives, and blog posts, oh my!” edition

By Nick Bunker,

May 6, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Labor gains in an era of low productivity growth?

By Nick Bunker,

May 5, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Wage Stagnation

post

Another interactive look at changes in U.S. labor force participation

By Austin Clemens, Nick Bunker,

May 4, 2016

Austin Clemens, Nick Bunker,

Labor

post

Income mobility over a lifetime might be on the decline

By Nick Bunker,

May 3, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Mobility

post

What’s the deal with U.S. wage growth?

By Nick Bunker,

May 2, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Wage Stagnation

post

Weekend reading: “Participating in the labor market” edition

By Nick Bunker,

April 29, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

When it comes to causality, no one technique should have all that power

By Nick Bunker,

April 28, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: GDP 2.0

post

An interactive history of U.S. labor force participation

By Austin Clemens, Nick Bunker,

April 27, 2016

Austin Clemens, Nick Bunker,

Labor

post

The basic economics of a guaranteed income

By Nick Bunker,

April 27, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Minimum Wage

post

Competition in the U.S. labor market

By Nick Bunker,

April 26, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Competition Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Concentration, Job Mobility, Monopsony

post

Weekend reading: “Rents, retirement, and family economic security” edition

By Nick Bunker,

April 22, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Some new stylized facts for a financialized economy

By Nick Bunker,

April 21, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt

post

Preparing for retirement when there’s a savings glut

By Nick Bunker,

April 20, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Families

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Wellbeing

post

Economic rents are rising, and it matters who receives them

By Nick Bunker,

April 19, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Competition

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Antitrust Enforcement, Concentration

post

Weekend reading: “Unlocking the cable box” edition

By Nick Bunker,

April 15, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Working toward a new U.S. competition policy

By Nick Bunker,

April 15, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Competition

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Antitrust Enforcement, Concentration

post

You filed your taxes. Congrats, you’re administrative data!

By Nick Bunker,

April 14, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: GDP 2.0

post

Unemployment insurance might increase unemployment, but only slightly

By Nick Bunker,

April 13, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Unemployment Insurance

post

The importance of income and place in U.S. life expectancy

By Nick Bunker,

April 12, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economics of Place, Health

post

Weekend reading: “Rewiring the labor market” edition

By Nick Bunker,

April 8, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Why it’s time to rethink non-compete agreements

By Nick Bunker,

April 7, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Job Mobility

post

JOLTS and another look at the health of the U.S. labor market

By Nick Bunker,

April 6, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

Panama and the opacity of global capital

By Nick Bunker,

April 5, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality, Taxes, Inequality & Growth

post

Weekend reading: April Fool’s Day edition (but no joke, this is good reading)

By Nick Bunker,

April 1, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

The gig economy? Or the fissured workplace?

By Nick Bunker,

March 30, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

Medicaid, job lock, and moving up the job ladder

By Nick Bunker,

March 29, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Families Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Health, Job Mobility

post

The labor share, the ongoing recovery, and structural forces

By Nick Bunker,

March 28, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy, Wage Stagnation

post

Weekend reading: Hysteresis, wage setting, market concentration, and more

By Nick Bunker,

March 25, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

What tools do central banks have left?

By Nick Bunker,

March 24, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

How low-income tax credits might be improved

By Nick Bunker,

March 23, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Families Tax & Macroeconomics

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Wellbeing, Taxes, Inequality & Growth

post

Firm wage setting and the rise of U.S. income inequality

By Nick Bunker,

March 22, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality, Monopsony

post

Why some parts of the United States will feel the effects of the Great Recession until 2021

By Nick Bunker,

March 21, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economics of Place, Job Mobility

post

Weekend reading: “Appreciating anniversaries” edition

By Nick Bunker,

March 18, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Appreciating the new economics of the minimum wage

By Nick Bunker,

March 16, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Minimum Wage

post

How extending credit can fight recessions

By Nick Bunker,

March 15, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt, Fiscal Policy

post

Does inequality affect high school dropout rates?

By Nick Bunker,

March 14, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Mobility, K-12

post

Weekend reading: “Where did the fluidity go?” edition

By Nick Bunker,

March 11, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Is weak U.S. wage growth all because of who’s getting jobs?

By Nick Bunker,

March 10, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Wage Stagnation

post

What’s your college degree worth? It may depend on your parents’ income

By Nick Bunker,

March 9, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality, Economic Mobility, Post-secondary Education

post

Why is U.S. labor market fluidity drying up?

By Nick Bunker,

March 8, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Job Mobility

post

Weekend reading: Our new working paper series, UI extensions, and more

By Nick Bunker,

March 4, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

How concerned should we be about business investment and productivity growth?

By Nick Bunker,

March 3, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Competition Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Concentration

post

Why less job searching can be a good thing

By Nick Bunker,

March 2, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Unemployment Insurance

post

Abundance and the direction of technological growth

By Nick Bunker,

February 18, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: GDP 2.0

post

Why the mismeasurement explanation for the U.S. productivity slowdown misses the mark

By Nick Bunker,

February 17, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: GDP 2.0

post

Why it’d be nice if the “job-hopping” Millennial story were true

By Nick Bunker,

February 16, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Job Mobility

post

Weekend reading: “What’s the deal with secular stagnation?” edition

By Nick Bunker,

February 12, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Giving credit to the unemployed

By Nick Bunker,

February 11, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt, Job Mobility

post

Why it makes sense to look at nominal wage growth right now

By Nick Bunker,

February 10, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy, Wage Stagnation

post

The more elastic you are, the less you lose

By Nick Bunker,

February 9, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Where you grow up can affect your chances of employment

By Nick Bunker,

February 8, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economics of Place

post

Weekend reading: “How low can they go?” edition

By Nick Bunker,

February 5, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

The level and trend of the U.S. gender wage gap

By Nick Bunker,

February 4, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Pay Equity

post

The recession next time

By Nick Bunker,

February 3, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

How do we make sure savings become wealth?

By Nick Bunker,

February 2, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality

post

Cash [demand] rules everything around us

By Nick Bunker,

February 1, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

Weekend reading: The “still shoveling out” edition

By Nick Bunker,

January 29, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

What’s happened to U.S. housing inequality?

By Nick Bunker,

January 28, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economics of Place

post

Context may be everything when it comes to the Phillips curve

By Nick Bunker,

January 26, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

The corporate savings glut and the economic possibilities of the future

By Nick Bunker,

January 25, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Weekend reading: Quitting, low wages, racial inequality, and more

By Nick Bunker,

January 22, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Why employers might like paid leave programs

By Nick Bunker,

January 21, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Paid Leave

post

The Federal Reserve and awareness of racial inequality

By Nick Bunker,

January 20, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Inequality & Mobility Labor Tax & Macroeconomics

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy, Race & Ethnicity

post

Demographics don’t explain the decline in quitting

By Kavya Vaghul, Nick Bunker,

January 19, 2016

Kavya Vaghul, Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Job Mobility

post

Weekend reading: Wealth taxes, the State of the Union, engineers, and more

By Nick Bunker,

January 15, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

What’s happening to the growth of productive new firms?

By Nick Bunker,

January 13, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Competition

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Concentration

post

How minimum-wage increases affect the flow of firms

By Nick Bunker,

January 12, 2016

Nick Bunker,

Competition Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Concentration, Wage Stagnation

post

Thinking about wealth taxes

By Nick Bunker,

January 11, 2016

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Individual Taxation, Taxes, Inequality & Growth

post

Weekend reading: New jobs numbers, #ASSA2016, and more

By Nick Bunker,

January 8, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

Intellectual property and the decline of the U.S. labor share

By Nick Bunker,

January 7, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

#ASSA2016: Day 2 roundup

By Nick Bunker,

January 4, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

#ASSA2016: Day 1 Roundup

By Nick Bunker,

January 3, 2016

Nick Bunker,

post

The 10 most popular Value Added posts of 2015

By Nick Bunker,

December 30, 2015

Nick Bunker,

post

A non-exclusive list of interesting graphs from 2015

By Nick Bunker,

December 28, 2015

Nick Bunker,

post

What explains the rise in college tuition in the United States?

By Nick Bunker,

December 23, 2015

Nick Bunker,

post

What are the factors behind high economic rents?

By Nick Bunker,

December 21, 2015

Nick Bunker,

Competition Inequality & Mobility Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality

post

Weekend reading

By Nick Bunker,

December 18, 2015

Nick Bunker,

post

What the Fed’s method of raising interest rates reveals about the state of the global economy

By Nick Bunker,

December 17, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt, Monetary Policy

post

This is not the rate hike you’re looking for

By Nick Bunker,

December 16, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

The upside of expanding access to the Earned Income Tax Credit

By Nick Bunker,

December 15, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Individual Taxation

post

Trying to get a grip on the gig economy

By Nick Bunker,

December 14, 2015

Nick Bunker,

Competition Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monopsony

post

Weekend reading

By Nick Bunker,

December 11, 2015

Nick Bunker,

post

There’s more to capital taxation than capital gains

By Nick Bunker,

December 10, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Individual Taxation

post

JOLTS and the health of the U.S. labor market

By Nick Bunker,

December 9, 2015

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power, Job Mobility

post

The consequences of unskewed U.S. business growth

By Nick Bunker,

December 8, 2015

Nick Bunker,

Competition

post

Counterfactuals, quality, and the effects of prekindergarten

By Nick Bunker,

December 7, 2015

Nick Bunker,

Families

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Childcare & Early Education

post

Weekend reading

By Nick Bunker,

December 4, 2015

Nick Bunker,

post

How much has the decline in the labor share affected income inequality?

By Nick Bunker,

December 3, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality

post

How do you solve a problem like profit shifting?

By Nick Bunker,

December 2, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Business Taxation

post

Will workers reap from changing demographics?

By Nick Bunker,

November 24, 2015

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

post

Housing supply, rents, and economic mobility

By Nick Bunker,

November 23, 2015

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Job Mobility

post

Must-watch: The Aspen Summit on Inequality and Opportunity

By Nick Bunker,

November 20, 2015

Nick Bunker,

post

Weekend reading

By Nick Bunker,

November 20, 2015

Nick Bunker,

post

Corporate surpluses, savings, and economic growth

By Nick Bunker,

November 19, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt

post

The consequences and causes of declining geographic mobility in the United States

By Nick Bunker,

November 18, 2015

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Job Mobility

post

How high can the minimum wage go?

By Nick Bunker,

November 17, 2015

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Minimum Wage

post

What problem does crowdfunding venture capital solve?

By Nick Bunker,

November 10, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt

post

Why ‘disgorging the cash’ can undermine economic growth

By Nick Bunker,

November 9, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Concentration

post

Weekend reading

By Nick Bunker,

November 6, 2015

Nick Bunker,

post

Austerity, inverse Say’s Law, and secular stagnation

By Nick Bunker,

November 5, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy

post

Rising U.S. mortality and its potential economic causes

By Nick Bunker,

November 4, 2015

Nick Bunker,

Families

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Health

post

How readily can we get the long-term unemployed back to work?

By Nick Bunker,

November 3, 2015

Nick Bunker,

post

Accelerating wage growth has yet to show up

By Nick Bunker,

November 2, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Wage Stagnation

post

Weekend reading

By Nick Bunker,

October 30, 2015

Nick Bunker,

post

What’s the price of free-flowing capital?

By Nick Bunker,

October 29, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt

post

Checking in on the herd of unicorns

By Nick Bunker,

October 28, 2015

Nick Bunker,

Competition

post

A kink in the Phillips curve

By Nick Bunker,

October 27, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

post

How tax expenditures distort our understanding of the U.S. tax code

By Nick Bunker,

October 26, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Individual Taxation

post

Weekend reading

By Nick Bunker,

October 23, 2015

Nick Bunker,

post

Calculating the leak in Okun’s bucket

By Nick Bunker,

October 22, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality, Individual Taxation

post

We need better data on U.S. entrepreneurship

By Nick Bunker,

October 21, 2015

Nick Bunker,

Competition

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Concentration

post

A look at U.S. tax rates at the top

By Nick Bunker,

October 20, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Individual Taxation

post

Putting rents at the center of U.S. income inequality

By Nick Bunker,

October 19, 2015

Nick Bunker,

Competition Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Concentration, Monopsony

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Weekend reading

By Nick Bunker,

October 16, 2015

Nick Bunker,

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The importance of low U.S. interest rates in the long run

By Nick Bunker,

October 15, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

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The measured Angus Deaton wins the Nobel Prize

By Nick Bunker,

October 14, 2015

Nick Bunker,

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Minimum wage workers and the collapse of the job ladder

By Nick Bunker,

October 13, 2015

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Job Mobility, Minimum Wage

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Weekend reading

By Nick Bunker,

October 9, 2015

Nick Bunker,

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How delayed foreclosures can actually lead to higher wages

By Nick Bunker,

October 8, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt

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What does and does not boost economic growth?

By Nick Bunker,

October 7, 2015

Nick Bunker,

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Untangling the sources of racial wealth inequality in the United States

By Nick Bunker,

October 6, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Race & Ethnicity

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A tale of three U.S. employment-to-population ratios

By Nick Bunker,

October 5, 2015

Nick Bunker,

Labor

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Weekend reading

By Nick Bunker,

October 2, 2015

Nick Bunker,

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The relationship between U.S. productivity growth and the decline in the labor share of national income

By Nick Bunker,

October 1, 2015

Nick Bunker,

Competition Inequality & Mobility

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Concentration, Economic Inequality

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Here’s how high levels of household debt affect economic growth

By Nick Bunker,

September 29, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt

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Weekend reading

By Nick Bunker,

September 25, 2015

Nick Bunker,

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Gabriel Zucman presents “The Hidden Wealth of Nations”

By Nick Bunker,

September 22, 2015

Nick Bunker,

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Weekend reading

By Nick Bunker,

September 18, 2015

Nick Bunker,

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Weekend reading

By Nick Bunker,

September 11, 2015

Nick Bunker,

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What might make monetary policy more effective in the future?

By Nick Bunker,

August 12, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monetary Policy

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Looking for the roots of total factor productivity growth

By Nick Bunker,

May 13, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: GDP 2.0

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Monopsony and market power in the labor market

By Nick Bunker,

April 24, 2015

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Monopsony

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Determining the optimal U.S. tax rate for higher earners

By Nick Bunker,

April 13, 2015

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Individual Taxation, Minimum Wage

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The future of the global savings glut

By Nick Bunker,

March 31, 2015

Nick Bunker,

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The steep path forward for unionization

By Nick Bunker,

March 2, 2015

Nick Bunker,

Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power

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ICYMI: Lynch on the economic gains from reducing education inequality

By Nick Bunker,

February 4, 2015

Nick Bunker,

Families

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Wellbeing, K-12

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Thomas Piketty, depreciation and the elasticity of substitution

By Nick Bunker,

October 20, 2014

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality

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Factoring inequality into economic growth

By Nick Bunker,

August 8, 2014

Nick Bunker,

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Nothing new under the labor market sun

By Heather Boushey, Nick Bunker,

August 1, 2014

Heather Boushey, Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: GDP 2.0

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A post-war history of U.S. economic growth

By Nick Bunker,

July 30, 2014

Nick Bunker,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality

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Being the reserve currency has its privileges and costs

By Nick Bunker,

July 7, 2014

Nick Bunker,