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Filippos Papasavvas
May 28, 2023
On the relationship between output and unemployment
Knotek (2007) examined whether the statistical relationship of real output growth with the unemployment rate, as captured by Arthur...
Ioannis Milioritsas
Feb 5, 2022
Have minimum wage increases raised US unemployment historically?
In their study, Cengiz et al. (2019) investigate whether changes in the US minimum wage from 1979 to 2016 affected the domestic...
Filippos Papasavvas
Feb 5, 2022
Do temporary working contracts exacerbate an economic crisis?
The Bentolila et al (2010) paper investigates the different unemployment responses in France and Spain after the Great Recession...
Sandra Loayza Guzman
Feb 5, 2022
Does immigration affect wages and unemployment? A case study of Miami
Inspired by their 2019 book Good Economics for Hard Times, I decided to cover here one of the academic papers that Abhijit Banerjee and...
Filippos Papasavvas
Feb 5, 2022
Does female labor participation affect their voting patterns?
Our lifestyle has a direct impact on the way we perceive the world, and it is therefore unsurprising if it also affects our voting...
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