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Originally published on Agglomerations, the Substack newsletter from the Economic Innovation […]| Economic Innovation Group
Originally published on Agglomerations, the Substack newsletter from the Economic Innovation […]| Economic Innovation Group
Recent tremors in the labor market are being pinned on Artificial Intelligence. A cooling job market for technology workers, for example, is taken as evidence of AI-induced job loss. So is the rising unemployment rate among recent college graduates.Is your job at risk? Well, if you are reading this, chances are you do a lot of your work on a laptop — and laptop jobs, we are told, will be the first to go.| Economic Innovation Group
By Adam Ozimek Protectionists love talking about the auto industry. Believing it offers a potent example of the harms of globalization, their arguments have long been politically attractive to politicians on both left and right. Most recently they have justified the Trump administration’s 25 percent tariffs on auto imports by emphasizing the long-term decline [...] The post Myths and Lessons from a Century of American Automaking appeared first on Economic Innovation Group.| Economic Innovation Group
In a new letter to Congress penned by the Economic Innovation Group, a bipartisan group of more than 80 economists have called for proper funding and modernization of the U.S. statistical agencies.| Economic Innovation Group
Originally published on Agglomerations, the Substack newsletter from the Economic Innovation […]| Economic Innovation Group
By John Lettieri, Adam Ozimek, and Ben Glasner On Wednesday, […]| Economic Innovation Group
The map above summarizes statutory restrictions placed on noncompetes in each state and sorts states into four broad categories. “Full ban” states do not allow any noncompetes in an employment context but may have exceptions for the dissolution of a partnership or the goodwill sale of a business. “Income ban” states use an income threshold to determine which employees may be subject to noncompetes and may or may not have additional restrictions. “Other restrictions” include any in...| Economic Innovation Group
By Sarah Eckhardt and Benjamin Glasner The tax-advantaged retirement savings […]| Economic Innovation Group
By Sarah Eckhardt and Jiaxin He The “retirement crisis” is […]| Economic Innovation Group
The Chipmaker’s Visa represents a bipartisan pathway to addressing bottlenecks to scaling up semiconductor production.| Economic Innovation Group
Manufacturing employment has rebounded nationally, but growth is concentrated in […]| Economic Innovation Group
The pandemic era dealt a body blow to the economic and demographic health of many of America’s major cities. It sent young families in particular fleeing to smaller cities, suburbs, or even rural parts of the country. But the pandemic is decidedly over, and young families are still not returning. Meanwhile, birth rates are declining faster in large urban counties than anywhere else in the country. Combined, these trends mean that the population of young families living in the country’s ma...| Economic Innovation Group
Left-behind counties in the United States have just experienced their strongest two-year period of job creation and business growth since the turn of the 21st century. Despite their vigorous recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic gap between these counties and the rest of the country nonetheless continues to widen.| Economic Innovation Group
The Economic Innovation Group (EIG) commends the passage of a bipartisan resolution by the U.S. Conference of Mayors endorsing an innovative proposal for revitalizing local economies through high-skilled immigration.| Economic Innovation Group
Research conclusively demonstrates that high-skilled immigration strengthens the U.S. economy. While most voters aren’t immersed in the empirical literature, this survey makes it clear that they intuitively understand the case for expanding high-skilled immigration.| Economic Innovation Group
A strong labor market and the rise of remote work appear to be boosting employment rates for Americans with disabilities, which have reached levels not seen since the Great Recession.| Economic Innovation Group
