The Future of Work: What Remote Work, AI, and Automation Really Mean
From Oxford's 47% automation estimate to the four-day work week trials, explore what research actually shows about remote work productivity, AI job...
June 2024
May 2024
Why People Migrate: The Economics, Networks, and Politics of Human Movement
Why do people migrate? Explore push-pull theory, the Mariel Boatlift wage experiment, network migration theory, remittances, climate migration, and...
March 2024
What Explains the Gender Pay Gap: What Research Actually Shows
The raw gender pay gap in the US is around 18%, but the adjusted gap is 2-8%. Claudia Goldin's Nobel Prize-winning research, the motherhood...
January 2023
What Is the Gender Pay Gap: What the Data Actually Shows
The gender pay gap is real but complex. Learn the difference between raw and adjusted gaps, Claudia Goldin's Nobel research, the motherhood...
May 2022
What Is Labor Economics?
Labor economics studies how wages are determined, why workers get paid what they do, and how labor markets function.