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"The backlash against globalization does not arise because people doubt
trade's overall benefits. The backlash reflects that trade makes some
individuals worse off," says the Niehaus Family Professor in International
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“The benefits of immigration really come from occupational specialization,” said Ethan Lewis, an associate professor of economics at Dartmouth College. “Immigrants who are relatively concentrated in less interactive and more manual jobs free up natives to specialize in what they are relatively good at, which are communication-intensive jobs.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/business/...
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'Britain is fast becoming the sick man of Europe' – experts debate Brexit data
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Andrew Levin was recently quoted in a Bloomberg story about the economy.
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Above: Costas Arkolakis, and Treb Allen
See the details for their project right here
The National Science Foundation has given an award to Treb Allen for the...
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Middle class may be doing better than the numbers suggest- false notion that wages are falling or flat
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Op-ed by Robert Samuelson about Bruce Sacerdote’s study on “FIFTY YEARS OF GROWTH IN AMERICAN CONSUMPTION, INCOME, AND WAGES” (published as an NBER working paper), ran in April 11th 2017 edition of The Washington Post. (This is the second outlet to cover the study, as Bloomberg also covered this).