How does a task-level minimum pay requirement for gig workers affect their earnings and employment? We study this question in the context of a January 2024 law in Seattle that establishes a per-task ...

Economics professor and former Harvard University President Larry Summers, who recently stepped back from public duties following revelations about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, opened his class at the ...

The Rufus Barringer Civil War Round Table will meet Thursday, Nov. 20, at 7 p.m., at the Civic Club on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Ashe Street in Southern Pines. Socializing begins at 6:30 p ...

Why doesn't a rising tide raise all or most boats? That is: how does wealth manage to get "sequestered" with the wealthiest? [In theory], they don't put it in big money rooms like Scrooge McDuck: they ...

The International Monetary Fund will hold its eleventh annual Richard Goode Lecture on November 4, 2025. The Richard Goode Lecture is an annual event hosted by the Fiscal Affairs Department for ...

Labour has agreed to campaign on a capital gains tax (CGT) covering just property - excluding the family home and farms - to help fund a new scheme offering a limited number of free GP visits. The ...

Labor is weighing up whether to introduce a new large-scale tax, known as a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, on carbon-intensive imports.

The 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize for Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to three researchers who have shown how technological and scientific innovation, coupled to market ...

Women have been underrepresented among winners of the economics prize. Of the 96 laureates honoured since 1969, only three have been women. The Nobel economics prize wraps up the 2025 season when it ...

Samuel Wolkenhauer gives a talk Tuesday about what he sees as an "eroding" job market at the Prairie Falls Golf Club in Post Falls. CAROLYN BOSTICK/Press Christina Petit, president and CEO of the Post ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 8 - Decent work and economic growth. Social mobility refers to the extent to which individuals or families move up or down the economic ...

TOKYO, June 12 (Reuters) - Japan's labour shortage is forcing its conservative lawmakers to consider overhauling decades-old social welfare rules originally designed to encourage married women to ...