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Labor Market

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Ron DeSantis

DeSantis Revokes Licenses From Businesses That Fail To Use Flawed E-Verify System

Floridians will bear the cost of DeSantis currying favor with immigration restrictionists.

Eric Boehm | 1.31.2023 12:30 PM

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Jobs

ChatGPT Isn't Coming for Your Job (Yet)

Content-generating A.I. will probably enhance human labor rather than make it obsolete.

Joakim Book | 1.24.2023 11:30 AM

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Federal Trade Commission

The FTC Wants To Outlaw Noncompete Clauses, but Does It Have the Authority?

The Commission's lone dissenter says Congress has not charged it with regulating noncompete clauses.

David McGarry | 1.12.2023 12:14 PM

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Economy

Subsidies To Help Workers Would Hurt Poor People

Some people would benefit. Others would lose money or be rendered unemployable.

Veronique de Rugy | 12.15.2022 12:01 AM

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Immigration

America Needs 'Low-Skilled' Workers

Yes, America benefits from immigrants who can write code. But we also need ones who can swing hammers.

Fiona Harrigan | 12.8.2022 6:00 AM

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Immigration

Germany Is Planning To Reform Its Immigration Policies. The U.S. Should, Too.

With high job vacancies and a low birth rate, Germany is turning to the world to fill the holes in its economy.

Addie Mae Villas | 12.7.2022 4:30 PM

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Labor Market

The Labor Market Is Broken

Employment is an ultimatum game, where playing along might get workers less than employers, but refusing to play gets everyone zero.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.1.2022 6:00 AM

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Reason Roundup

Occupational Licensing Doesn't Mean Higher Quality Services

Plus: FIRE teams up with Ice-T, self-preferencing shouldn't be an antitrust offense, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.23.2022 9:30 AM

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Labor Unions

How Railroad Unions Almost Broke the Economy

The narrowly averted strike would have been an economic catastrophe. The story of how we reached the brink of that disaster is an illustrative one.

Eric Boehm | 9.16.2022 2:50 PM

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Voting With Your Feet

Help Labor by Breaking Down Barriers to Mobility

Labor Day is the right time to remember that we can make workers vastly better off by empowering more of them to vote with their feet.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 9.5.2022 11:00 AM

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Education

COVID-19 Gutted College Attendance. Now, a Solid Labor Market Is Convincing More High School Grads To Skip It.

The number of high school seniors going on to attend college has plummeted in the past two years, deepening the already steady decline.

Emma Camp | 8.16.2022 12:32 PM

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Bailouts

Biden Celebrates $90 Billion Bailout of Private Union Pension Plans

Plus: Don't cry for the failure of Homeland Security's disinformation board, states discover supply-side solutions to labor shortages, and more...

Eric Boehm | 7.7.2022 9:30 AM

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Immigration

The Feds Wasted 66,000 Green Cards in the Middle of a Worker Shortage

The immigration bureaucracy is worsening one of the tightest labor markets in recent American history.

Eric Boehm | 4.14.2022 11:30 AM

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Labor

The Great Resignation Shows What Empowered Workers Really Look Like

Unions or minimum wage laws aren't required for workers to shift the balance of power.

J.D. Tuccille | 3.11.2022 7:00 AM

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Minimum Wage

Shortage of Adult Workers Makes Teens Employable Again

Minimum wage laws priced young workers out of the market before the pandemic and may do so in the future.

J.D. Tuccille | 11.29.2021 7:00 AM

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Immigration

Let Immigrants Take the Jobs American Workers Don't Want

The H-2B visa allows foreign workers to fill jobs that native-born Americans aren't interested in.

Fiona Harrigan | 6.7.2021 2:55 PM

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Regulation

'Hero Pay' for Grocery Workers Is Terrible for Grocery Workers

Laws which mandate big wage increases for workers during the pandemic are leaving store closures in their wake.

Christian Britschgi | 5.30.2021 6:00 AM

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Women

The Gender Gap in Pandemic Job Losses Has Been Wildly Exaggerated

Jobs data casts doubt on the idea that the COVID-19 pandemic is uniquely setting women back. 

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.11.2021 2:30 PM

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Economics

How Economists Learned to Love Minimum Wage Hikes

Would raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour cost jobs?

Peter Suderman | 4.15.2021 6:00 AM

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Minimum Wage

A Higher Minimum Wage Lowers Opportunities for America's Poorest Workers

Minimum wage jobs aren't supposed to be career choices, but stepping stones on the way to other things. Everyone has to start out somewhere.

Steven Greenhut | 1.29.2021 8:00 AM

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Coronavirus

Los Angeles Might Force Broke Businesses To Keep Paying Workers During Coronavirus Outbreak

The mandates would be retroactive, potentially punishing businesses for violating rules they did not even know existed.

Steven Greenhut and C. Jarrett Dieterle | 3.27.2020 11:30 AM

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Economics

Unemployment, Underemployment, and the Comprehensive Jobless Rate

When it comes to the health of the labor market, we don’t know the full story.

Veronique de Rugy | 7.18.2019 12:01 AM

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Labor

The Government Can't—and Won't—Give Meaning to Your Life

A conservative technocrat tries to engineer a better world.

Peter Suderman | 2.4.2019 6:00 AM

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