Source: Flikr Creative Commons The Minnesota House and Senate passed, and Governor Dayton signed, a 26-week extension of unemployment benefits for Iron Range miners and a reduction in unemployment insurance payments for businesses. I heard a story about it this morning on MPR and thought I heard something incorrectly. I went to the transcript and I wasn’t wrong. Here is what brought me up … [Read more...]
Source: Flikr Creative Commons Donald Trump calls for deporting all 11 million undocumented immigrants. What effects would this have on the US economy? To answer this question, we first need to have a sense of the labor supply behavior of undocumented immigrants. That is, we need to know information such as their employment rate and their sensitivity to changes in US wages (i.e. their labor … [Read more...]
Source: Flikr Creative Commons Today I'll be giving a talk at the Senior College of West Central Minnesota. According to their website, "Senior College is a lecture series for adults in West Central Minnesota. A variety of quality, college level lectures with scholars from across the state stimulate learning and fuel curiosities in a congenial setting at the Alexandria Technical & Community … [Read more...]