How does the permanent war economy interact, and subsume, the private, non-military economy? Can the two remain at a distance while sharing resource pools? This paper argues that they cannot. Once the U.S. embarked upon the path of permanent war, starting with World War II, the result was a...

The Great Recession has been hard on recent college graduates, but it has been even harder for black recent college graduates. This report examines the labor-market outcomes of black recent college graduates using the general approach developed by Federal Reserve Bank of New York researchers...

L’obiettivo del lavoro è quello di mettere in luce e descrivere la configurazione dei legami produttivi sul territorio a partire dalle reti delle imprese plurilocalizzate. Sono stati utilizzati gli strumenti della network analysis per descrivere la rete, l’intensità e le caratteristiche...

Italy's labour market suffers from a serious pathology, in addition to the increasing precariousness of the young workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast number of young individuals who lose their job only a...

Krugman's verdict that competitiveness of countries is a largely meaningless concept is a serious misjudgement of the economics profession. Countries compete for the mobile factors of production, most importantly for capital and technology. The exit-option of these factors and of firms changes...

Are transfers from members living abroad a stimulus to a key sector such as schooling in Albania? In the present article I summarize results of a study investigating which factors are able to boost the household expenditure in education. Among these factors, a large emphasis is given to the...

A significant increase of concentration in the UK salmon retail subsector has heightened concerns about retail firms’ ability to exercise market power in the purchase of supplies (oligopsony power). To assess the extent to which retail firms have exercised oligopsony power, we develop a...

Reducing federal employee compensation to market levels could save taxpayers roughly $77 billion per year.

More flexible labor markets, or those with lower employment protection, are associated with relatively higher tertiary education enrollment and graduation rates than more rigid markets.

Using matched employer-employee data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates how employment of undocumented workers varies along the business cycle and how it differs from the adjustment in employment of documented workers. The cyclical component of undocumented employment is found to...