- January 17, 2023
Workers Want to Work but It’s Still Not Enough
Remember when “jobs, jobs, jobs” was a political talking point?
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- April 19, 2022
American Business Has Never Seen Anything Like This
One year ago, the US labor market was almost at equilibrium.
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- October 11, 2021
Big Bad Employers
If you’re an American worker, you probably have a new job, or you’re looking for a new job, or you at least want a new job. Pundits call all this shuffling “The Great Resignation.” The pandemic caused it, they say.
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- September 21, 2021
The Labor Shortage Is Bigger than You Think
“Either/or” thinking is one of the great scourges of our time. We want to think every dilemma has a quick answer. This is rarely so.
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- August 31, 2021
The Economics of Rudeness
You may have noticed your favorite restaurant is short on staff. The same in retail stores, hotels, and other service businesses.
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- May 11, 2021
About that Labor Shortage
I have a childhood memory of Sesame Street’s little song, “One of these things is not like the other.” It was a useful lesson: Some things just don’t fit, and you can’t force them.
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