Elasticity Bleg Bryan Caplan By Bryan Caplan, Jan 10 2008 SHARE POST: What is a standard estimate for the wage-elasticity of labor demand? Anyone?
Jan 12 2008 EconLog Tone of Comments Arnold Kling My blog is my classroom. Some blogs may want their comments to be wide-open forums where anything goes. I don't. Some blogs may want only sycophants and supporters to comment. Others ban comments altogether. Some bloggers have reputations for deleting critical comments, even those that are polite. I welcome cri... 13 Read More
Jan 11 2008 Macroeconomics Singapore: "Automatic Stabilizers" Done Right Bryan Caplan Tax cuts are a popular cure for unemployment, but there are strong reasons to doubt that they are a good way to achieve this goal. As I explained a while back:Where does the money come from? If the central bank prints up $1000 and the government uses it to cut taxes, spending goes up; but that is monetary policy in di... 14 Read More
Jan 10 2008 Labor Market Elasticity Bleg Bryan Caplan What is a standard estimate for the wage-elasticity of labor demand? Anyone? 11 Read More