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Statistics Canada Economists | A substantial number of layoffs
A substantial number of the 2,500 economists working at Statistics Canada could end up with notices that their jobs are affected by the Conservative government’s budget cuts, forcing them to compete with each other for their jobs, says the union representing them.
A strong Euro | Is it only pride with prejudice ?
Why the Euro is kept too stong and is not at par with the U.S. $. Is it only a question of pride, with its immense prejudice in human terms ?
Academic economists played a big role in causing the crisis says Joseph Stiglitz
Academic economists played a big role in causing the crisis. Their models were overly simplified, distorted, and left out the most important aspects. Those faulty models then encouraged policy-makers to believe that the markets would solve all the problems. Before the crisis, if I had been a narrow-minded economist, I would have been very pleased … Continue reading
What is the price to save the Euro : Isn’t Worth Saving writes Matthew O’Brien
Welcome to life in a suboptimal currency area. After all, countries that share a currency also share monetary policy. If they don’t share fiscal policy too — that is, there is no centralized treasury — they can get into trouble. Just ask Europe. But as Christian Odendahl at The Economist points out, this also means that … Continue reading
ILO and World Bank report on government actions against the Great Recession
The International Labour Organization and the World Bank released a joint report and new online data tool with the first comprehensive stocktaking of countries’ jobs-related policy responses to the recent global financial and economic crisis. A follow-up to a request from leaders at the 2009 G20 Pittsburgh Summit, the report, Inventory of Policy Responses to … Continue reading
Minimum Wage | Options for a radical reform
Professor Alan Manning, Head of the Economics Department at the London School of Economics where he has taught since 1989, takes steps back from the current annual debate about the appropriate but small rise in the value of the minimum wage to ask a bolder question: are there more radical reforms of the minimum wage that … Continue reading
U.S. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE | How To Respond to Persistently High Unemployment
The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of unemployed people who have been looking … Continue reading
African Americans and Latinos | Unemployment | No relief in 2012
Economic Policy Institute: Even though the U.S. recession officially ended in June 2009, the country’s unemployment rate remains devastatingly high. The situation is particularly dire for many African Americans and Latinos—and is not predicted to improve any time soon. Among the states with sufficient data for reliable estimates, African American unemployment rates exceeded 10 percent in … Continue reading
Youth Tough labor market | Economic Policy Institute
As we approach graduation season, it’s important to note the uphill battle young job seekers continue to face in today’s labor market. The unemployment rate for workers under the age of 25 has improved to 16.0 percent since its peak of 19.6 percent in the spring of 2010, but, excluding the Great Recession and its … Continue reading
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