Showing posts with label skills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skills. Show all posts
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...
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...
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, April 21, 2017

21/4/17: Any evidence that immigrants are undermining welfare of the natives?

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Given current debates surrounding the impact of migrant labour on native (and previously arriving migrants) wages, jobs security, career p...
Friday, June 10, 2016

10/6/16: Italian Manufacturing Capacity post-crisis

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A third paper on manufacturing capacity, also from Italy is by Libero Monteforte and Giordano Zevi, titled “ An Inquiry into Manufacturing...

10/6/16: Italian Industrial Production: 2007-2013

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Staying with the earlier theme of industrial / manufacturing sector trends, here is a paper from the Banca d’Italia, authored by Andrea Lo...

10/6/16: Wither Manufacturing? Evidence from Denmark

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Couple of posts relating to most current research on the recovery and longer term prospects in global manufacturing. As usual here, we sha...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

22/10/15: Gig Economy and Human Capital: Evidence from Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment

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In a couple of weeks, I will be speaking about the role of human capital in the emergence of the new economy at the CXC Corporate event “ ...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

23/4/15: Skills and Employment: 1950-2010 Data

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A very interesting study, titled "Labor Market Polarization Over the Business Cycle" by Christopher L. Foote and Richard W. Rya...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

15/5/2014: Innovation, Employment & Growth: Ireland's Human Capital Dilemma

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This is an unedited version of my article for Sunday Times , April 06. From jobs programmes aiming to boost employment creation to entr...
Friday, April 11, 2014

10/4/2014: The curse of Long-Term Joblessness

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times column from March 30, 2014 The unemployment crisis has not passed unnoticed in many hou...
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Thursday, December 8, 2011

08/12/2011: An even greater threat

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Here's an even greater threat to Ireland's 'economic model' - the one based on attempting to attract into this country a ne...
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

17/11/2011: INTO is correct on JobBridge Scheme

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INTO has issued a direction to its members not to co-operate with the Government's JobBridge scheme. The details are reported here . ...
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