Posts tagged with 'United States'
November 11, 2022
How firms adjust when they cannot hire foreigners for low-skill work
New study uses randomized work-visa restrictions to study the effect of low-skill immigration in the U.S.
November 19, 2018
Race-blind school admissions policy increases racial segregation
Rolling back integration efforts harms student outcomes
April 24, 2018
The moral hazard of life-saving innovations: Naloxone access, opioid abuse, and crime
By Jennifer Doleac and Anita Mukherjee The United States is grappling with an epidemic of opioid abuse and mortality. The […]
March 1, 2018
How China’s rise has challenged the benign view of free trade
The costs and benefits of free trade are one of the most contentious topics in economic policy. Economists often argue […]
November 16, 2017
Economic costs of global warming
Climate change is considered one of the major challenges of the 21st century. While politicians and scientists at the COP23 […]
May 24, 2017
Rise in earnings inequality is the biggest difficulty in today’s US labor market
A new IZA World of Labor report looking at the US labor market (2000-2016) finds a remarkable drop in the […]
February 14, 2017
Does modern technology slow down employment growth after recessions?
In the last 25 to 30 years, recoveries from recessions in the US have been plagued by weak employment growth. […]
December 8, 2016
How deporting all undocumented workers would hurt the U.S. economy
Immigration issues are at the top of many western countries’ political agendas. The EU is still processing all of the […]
April 5, 2016
How bad is involuntary part-time work?
By Daniel Borowczyk-Martins (Sciences Po and IZA) and Etienne Lalé (University of Bristol and IZA) When assessing the state of […]
March 12, 2015
Barry Chiswick on the design of immigration policies
In a video interview, IZA Fellow Barry Chiswick (George Washington University) talks about the design of immigration policies. He explains […]
January 20, 2015
How can host governments best engage with diaspora groups? IZA and RAND Europe analyze EU and US diasporas
Policymakers increasingly see possibilities in interacting with diaspora communities to improve relationships with their countries of origin and as a […]
August 20, 2014
How recessions produce career criminals
Recessions are known to create higher unemployment rates and lower levels of happiness and income. There is also growing evidence […]
July 7, 2014
How foreign language classes shape migration within the EU
Given the large differences in youth unemployment rates across Europe, one would expect young people to migrate from countries with […]
January 13, 2014
Fighting crime: incarceration does not always help
Does putting people in jail make the world a safer place? A new IZA discussion paper by Magnus Lofstrom and […]
October 23, 2013
How much unemployment insurance do we need?
By Rafel Lalive, Camille Landais and Josef Zweimüller The global crisis that erupted in 2008 has put millions of worker […]
September 20, 2013
How to motivate workers? Money versus mission
How much harder do people work when they believe in the mission of their organization? And equally important: How much […]
May 15, 2013
Extended unemployment insurance did not affect U.S. unemployment rate
Unemployment insurance (UI) benefits typically are available for 26 weeks in the United States. In response to the Great Recession […]
April 26, 2013
Blacks are still less happy than whites in the United States
In the United States the well-being of blacks is still below the well-being of whites. This has been shown by […]
April 19, 2013
Search and mating: the effect of the Internet on marriage rates
Internet facilitates searching tremendously. This should not only be true when you shop online for books or software, but also […]