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America's labor market really boomed in 2014. In fact there were 3 million more people in work than a year earlier. According to a recent study reported in The Economist, the ratio of job seekers to actual job openings fell "from a peak of seven to one in 2009 to two to one in November 2014." Why is this? Or, What caused this?
In a fascinating piece of research from the non-partisan National Bureau of Economic Research, the failure of congress to....
No question but what America's labor market really boomed in 2014. In fact there were 3 million more people in work than a year earlier. According to a recent study reported in The Economist, the ratio of job seekers to actual job openings fell "from a peak of seven to one in 2009 to two to one in November 2014." Why is this? Or, What caused this?
In a fascinating piece of research from the National Bureau of Economic Research, the failure of congress to reauthorize those benefit extensions that were introduced during the Great Recession evidently impacted the unemployed significantly. On the one hand 1.8 million jobs were created due to the....
Or, how innate is willpower?
Back in the 1960s, Walter Mischel created a simple, but ingenious, experiment to study delayed gratification. The now famous "marshmallow test" presented a group of four and five-year-old kids from Stanford University's nursery school with a difficult challenge. They were left alone with a treat of marshmallows. They were told they could help themselves at once, or, if they waited for up to 20 minutes get two marshmallows.
Mischel, now an eighty-year-old of Columbia University, reveals that the original purpose of the test was to learn how kids delay gratification. It was not to assess how well they did. But his own children, who had attended the nursery school, told him years later about how well socially and academically their friends from the pre-school who delayed their eating were doing.
Mischel dug into their anecdotes and found--to his surprise--a number of...