Showing posts with label human capital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human capital. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

15/12/20: Impact of Covid19 on families & labor

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  Some interesting research on the less tangible differential impacts of Covid19 pandemic via McKinsey: families with children and families ...
Friday, November 13, 2020

13/11/20: The economy has two chronic illnesses (and neither are Covid)

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My column for The Currency  this week covers two key long-term themes in the global economy that pre-date the pandemic and will remain in pl...
Sunday, October 4, 2020

4/10/20: Technological Deepening Is Coming for Our Jobs

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  In my recent article for The Currency (link here: https://trueeconomics.blogspot.com/2020/09/my-recent-article-on-potential-long.html), I ...
Saturday, September 26, 2020

26/9/20: Workers Should Brace Themselves for the post-COVID19 New World

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  My recent article on potential long-term impacts of COVID19 pandemic on corporate development and investment strategies for The Currency :...
Wednesday, May 6, 2020

6/5/20: H1B Visas and Local Wages: Undercutting Human Capital Returns

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The Economic Policy Institute published an interesting piece of research on the links between H1B visas and lower wages paid by the U.S. e...
Monday, August 19, 2019

18/8/19: Migration Policy vs the Law of Unintended Consequences

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President Trump's policies are a rich field for sowing evidence on the application of the law of unintended consequence in economic po...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

13/7/19: Mapping the declines in jobs creation

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Increasing market power concentration, falling entrepreneurship, rising concentration amongst the start ups, unicorns and billions in inve...
Friday, June 14, 2019

14/6/19: The Real U.S. Migration Crisis is Not at the Border, but at Home

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I recently wrote about the new data from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol on crime amongst the illegal and legal immigrants in the U.S. ...
Wednesday, April 3, 2019

2/4/19: Brain Drain Reversed or Inverted?

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Generally, we associate skilled emigration with the phenomenon of 'brain drain' or a zero sum game - the loss of human capital fro...
Friday, January 11, 2019

11/1/19: Capital Gains Tax: Human Capital vs Other Forms of Capital

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This is exactly  the source of policy-induced wealth inequality in the modern advanced economies: the disparity between labor income tax a...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

11/9/18: Slow Recoveries & Unemployment Traps: Hysteresis and/or Secular Stagnation

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The twin secular stagnations hypothesis (TSSH, first postulated on this blog) that combines supply-side (technological cyclicality) and de...
Friday, July 13, 2018

12/7/18: Technology, Government Policies & Supply-Side Secular Stagnation

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I have posted about the new World Bank report on Romania's uneven convergence experience in the previous post ( here ). One interestin...

12/7/18: Romania's Uneven convergence Path: 2007-2018

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A new World Bank report, led by Donato De Rosa, covers Romania's reforms and economic development experience. Worth a read! | "F...
Friday, June 8, 2018

8/6/18: Human Capital, Twin Secular Stagnations and Education Investments

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I have written a lot about the twin secular stagnations hypothesis that I defined few years ago as a combination of two separate secular s...
Friday, February 23, 2018

23/2/18: Ireland's Migration Policies are Working Well

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How to do immigration policy right? Ireland's CSO has published some new data on educational attainment in Ireland, covering 2017 resu...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

22/1/18: For-Profit CSR: Bounds of Effectiveness?

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Quite an interesting paper concerning the potential limitations to the structured CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) programs impact. ...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

28/9/17: Irish Migration: Some Good News in 2017

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While headline figures for net migration to Ieland paint an overall positive picture in the annual data (provided on April-April basis) ...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

22/8/17: Focus Economics on Refugees Integration Challenge

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Focus Economics  posted a neat and timely blog post on the topic of potential economic impacts of mass forced migration that has been swee...
Thursday, August 3, 2017

2/8/17: Role of Clusters in empowering Human Capital: GCTV

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My comment to GCTV on the importance of clusters in creating support base for human capital:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_bAPXMqw_M ...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

16/5/17: Technology: Jobs Displacement v Enhancement

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Technological innovation is driving revolutionary changes across the labour markets and more broadly, markets for human capital. These cha...