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Origins of the 40-hour workweek

November 6, 2024

How did workweek restrictions instituted during the Great Depression impact US labor markets?

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Explaining differences in the college wage premium across countries

August 16, 2024

Do employment protection policies help buoy the wages of less educated workers relative to their more educated counterparts?

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Business dynamism and housing markets

May 1, 2024

Do house prices impact the share of workers at young firms?

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Shifting to work from home

November 20, 2023

How did work-from-home arrangements in the United States evolve during and after the pandemic?

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Implications of work experience for economic development

August 16, 2023

How important are skills picked up on the job for long-run economic growth?

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The impact of bubbly episodes

May 1, 2023

How do economic bubbles and crashes affect long-run economic growth?

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Parental investment and educational attainment

November 28, 2022

How does family background affect college completion?

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The urban wage premium

August 8, 2022

Why do workers in larger cities make more money than their peers in smaller cities?

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The agricultural roots of economic growth

June 13, 2022

Did agricultural diversity in mid-nineteenth-century America lead to today’s higher standards of living?

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The increasing quality of job matching

March 7, 2022

Better job screening is decreasing the rate of worker turnover.