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January 11, 2023
Blog

More Labor Market Margins of Adjustment
… economist must see these unseen effects. And the more that mandates accumulate to prevent these adjustments, the more likely that labor market rules will lead directly to less employment. For more on labor market regulation, see here. For more on …
By Ryan Bourne
March 19, 2025
Testimony

Testimony to the Nevada State Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor
Dear Chair Marzola, Vice Chair Jauregui, and Members of the Committee:I appreciate the opportunity to submit this written testimony to the Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor. My name is Jeffrey A. Singer. I am a Senior Fellow in …
By Jeffrey A. Singer
March 12, 2025
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Testimony - Nevada State Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor
March 12, 2025 Assemblymember Elaine Marzola Assemblymember Sandra Jauregui Chair Vice Chair Committee on Commerce and Labor Committee on Commerce and Labor Nevada State Assembly Nevada State Assembly Carson City, NV 89701-4747 Carson City, NV 89701-4747 Re …
January 29, 2025
Research Briefs in Economic Policy

No. 418
Robots and Labor in Nursing Homes
… augmenting a declining working-age population and alleviating the shortage of workers. Our research studies the effects of robots on labor and service quality in Japanese nursing homes. Worker shortages have been especially salient in elderly care. In many countries …
By Yong Suk Lee, Toshiaki Iizuka, and Karen Eggleston
May 15, 2024
Research Briefs in Economic Policy

No. 383
Robots, Tools, and Jobs: Evidence from Brazilian Labor Markets
… of evidence suggesting that automation may lead to job losses. Nevertheless, technological progress has not only decreased the cost of labor‐replacing machines, such as robots, but also has caused a rapid decrease in the cost of labor‐complementing machines …
By Gustavo de Souza and Haishi Li
April 18, 2024
Insight

Extreme poverty, child labor, and inequality in well-being have all fallen since 2000
March 27, 2024
Research Briefs in Economic Policy

No. 376
Labor Market Impacts of Reducing Felony Convictions
… the impact of reductions when individuals are fully informed about their record change and thus can attempt to adjust their labor market situation. We assessed the impacts of these interventions on labor market outcomes by linking data on Proposition 47 …
By Amanda Y. Agan, Andrew Garin, Dmitri K. Koustas, Alexandre Mas, & Crystal Yang
March 22, 2024
Blog

Electric Vehicles, Labor Unions, and Climate Hypocrisy
… the deadline specified in the statute. These two cases also show how unrealistic policies are not applied consistently. Concessions to labor unions over electric vehicles are considered an acceptable political sacrifice, even though President Biden characterized the “climate crisis” as …
By David Kemp
March 14, 2024
Blog

Medicaid Expansion Will Not Increase Mississippi’s Labor Force Participation Rate
On February 28, 2024, Mississippi’s House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve the expansion of the Medicaid program to all adults earning less than 138 percent of the federal poverty line. Mississippi’s labor force participation rate is indeed very low. However, from 2018 to 2019, Arkansas enacted an almost identical policy to Mississippi’s proposed legislation. Arkansas’s work requirements did not meaningfully improve labor force participation and should serve as a lesson for Mississippi’s legislators.
By Krit Chanwong and Marc Joffe
July 11, 2024
Media Highlights TV

Scott Lincicome discusses the tight U.S. labor market, hackers reverse-engineer Ticketmaster barcodes, and private sector AI investment on Sinclair Broadcast Group’s The National Desk
Featuring Scott Lincicome
March 21, 2024
Media Highlights TV

Scott Lincicome discusses the housing affordability crisis, Chinese manufacturing, and the hot labor market on Sinclair Broadcast Group’s The National Desk
Featuring Scott Lincicome
February 24, 2024
Media Highlights TV

Alberto Mingardi participates in the book event, LabOra Incontro Lecco Il ruolo dell’Europa nel Mondo,” hosted by Associazione LabOra
Featuring Alberto Mingardi
November 28, 2023
Blog

AI Doesn’t Change the Economics of Labor, Capital, & Taxes
New taxes on capital will make achieving the positive gains promised by AI or any other future innovation less likely.
By Adam N. Michel
November 16, 2023
Blog

The US Labor Market Explains Most of the Increase in Illegal Immigration
The enforcement policies of the Bush and Biden administrations look like they had a similar effect on southwest Border Patrol flows, relative to the labor market.
By Alex Nowrasteh
November 8, 2023
Research Briefs in Economic Policy

No. 357
Now You Can Take It with You: Effects of Occupational Credential Recognition on Labor Market Outcomes
Requiring government permission to practice, occupational licensing creates barriers to entry and is likely to serve special interests rather than the public interest.
By Kihwan Bae and Edward J. Timmons