Trade

Labor Markets
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Sitting It Out? Or Pushed Out? Women Are Leaving the Labor Force in Record Numbers
Kathryn A. Edwards @keds_economist
Oct 23, 2020
The RAND Blog
Added to longstanding challenges such as securing child care and combatting pay disparities, the economic downturn due to the COVID-19 pandemic has hit women workers measurably harder than men. The consequences make clear just how much policy has failed to keep up with women's progress.
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International Economic Relations
commentary
A Free Trade Agreement Still Comes with Costs
Charles P. Ries @charles_ries, Marco Hafner
Oct 23, 2020
UK in a Changing Europe
Major issues remain to be resolved before any UK-EU agreement on post-Brexit trade and economic relations is completed. There will be substantial costs associated with even a zero-tariff trade deal.
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Employment and Unemployment
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For Leisure and Hospitality, Weak Recovery Still Looks Like Recession
Kathryn A. Edwards @keds_economist
Sep 4, 2020
The RAND Blog
By most measures, the workers hardest hit by pandemic shutdowns were those in the leisure and hospitality sector, which includes arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation, and food services. These jobs, which are still affected by government social distancing regulations, are not all likely to come back before the pandemic truly ends.
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Los Angeles
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Industry Mix in L.A. Area Helps Explain Recent Record Unemployment Rates
Jason M. Ward
Aug 25, 2020
The RAND Blog
The Los Angeles Combined Statistical Area reported more than 270,000 job cuts between March and early August. Considering which industries have cut jobs may provide a window into the area's unique labor market and help explain how the area currently has among the highest unemployment in the nation.
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Market Regulation
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Too Interconnected to Fail
Jonathan William Welburn @jwwelburn, Aaron Strong
Aug 22, 2020
Wall Street Journal
The 2007–08 financial crisis made regulators and lawmakers acutely aware that some financial institutions had become too big to fail. The next big economic crisis may arise outside the financial sector, in highly networked companies that are too interconnected to fail.
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Employment and Unemployment
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What Unemployment Statistics Obscure About Temporary Layoffs
Kathryn A. Edwards @keds_economist
Aug 17, 2020
The RAND Blog
As the broadest COVID-19 shutdowns were underway this spring, a historic number of American workers entered temporary layoff. Those temporary layoffs represent an economy put on pause. What has happened to them since then tells us if the economy can hit play again.
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Humanities and the Arts
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Arts and Cultural Workers Are Especially Vulnerable to the Pandemic
Susan A. Resetar, James V. Marrone, Daniel Schwam
Jul 23, 2020
The RAND Blog
Workers in the arts and cultural industries could be especially vulnerable to the economic shocks of COVID-19. As the United States reopens and decides its future, it should recognize these vulnerabilities, as well as the benefits that the arts and cultural industries offer.
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Employment and Unemployment
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Is the U.S. Stuck with a Fixed Add-On for Unemployment?
Kathryn A. Edwards @keds_economist
Jul 23, 2020
The RAND Blog
When COVID-19 led to millions of Americans losing their jobs, Congress moved to increase unemployment benefits by $600 a week. What should happen when those extra benefits expire?
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International Economic Relations
commentary
The Cost of Brexit Uncertainty and the Negative Implications for the UK Economy
Christian Van Stolk, Marco Hafner
Jul 8, 2020
The RAND Blog
Leaving the European Union has had an overall negative economic effect on the UK economy, and there are additional economic costs associated with the uncertainty surrounding the new relationship. Will there be a deal? And if so, what type of deal is likely?
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Employment and Unemployment
commentary
COVID-19's Depletion of Entry-Level Summer Jobs Can Have Long-Lasting Effects for Young Workers
Matthew D. Baird
Jul 6, 2020
The RAND Blog
Summer is typically when employment for young workers is at its highest. One of the many costs of the pandemic is lower employment rates. For young workers, it's not just an issue of lost wages; there is also an effect on their personal job history.
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International Economic Relations
commentary
Demystifying the Belt and Road Initiative
Rafiq Dossani
Jul 6, 2020
Encompass
Under the Belt and Road Initiative, China works with more than 70 countries to design and implement large infrastructure projects. Why are countries of all stripes turning to China for funding when the world is awash with cash?
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Economic Development
commentary
The Wealth Gap Widens
Shanthi Nataraj @ShanthiNataraj
Jun 1, 2020
Los Angeles Times
Whether history considers the current downturn a recession or a depression, it will reinforce the growing inequality in the United States. Navigating this crisis without substantially increasing inequality would require an unwavering commitment to support displaced workers and small-business owners.
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Employment and Unemployment
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38 Million Have Applied for Unemployment—but How Many Have Received Benefits?
Kathryn A. Edwards @keds_economist, Jeffrey B. Wenger
Jun 1, 2020
The RAND Blog
Unemployment Insurance may need substantial reform to its application process, but it has weathered the COVID-19 pandemic unemployment disaster. Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, the new program intended for workers who are not part of the employer tax base, has not.
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Health Care Reform
commentary
Options for Designing a Public Option
Michael Cohen, Al Bingham, Stan Dorn, Jodi L. Liu @jodilliu, Christine Eibner @Chrissyeibner
May 28, 2020
The RAND Blog
State and federal policymakers are considering adding state-backed public options to the individual market in an effort to expand health coverage and improve affordability. We analyzed what would happen if public options became available in U.S. health insurance exchanges.
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Workforce Management
commentary
To Preserve Jobs, America's Employers May Have to Get Creative
Jason M. Ward
May 26, 2020
CNN
With about 38.6 million Americans filing for unemployment insurance benefits since the end of February, it is clear that COVID-19 has turned the world of work upside down. One way to reduce the economic damage may be job-sharing, an approach that focuses on maximizing jobs by reducing workers' hours rather than resorting to layoffs or furloughs.
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Decisionmaking
commentary
Relaxing COVID-19 Restrictions Presents Stark Health and Economic Choices
Jeanne S. Ringel @JeanneRingel, Raffaele Vardavas, Aaron Strong
May 18, 2020
The RAND Blog
RAND's new COVID-19 interventions impact tool uses epidemiological and economic models and continually refreshed data to estimate what could happen as restrictions are eased. The tool won't make the choices confronting state leaders less painful. But it can provide clear, evidence-based estimates of the health and economic trade-offs.
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Trade

Sitting It Out? Or Pushed Out? Women Are Leaving the Labor Force in Record Numbers

A Free Trade Agreement Still Comes with Costs

For Leisure and Hospitality, Weak Recovery Still Looks Like Recession

Industry Mix in L.A. Area Helps Explain Recent Record Unemployment Rates

Too Interconnected to Fail

What Unemployment Statistics Obscure About Temporary Layoffs

Arts and Cultural Workers Are Especially Vulnerable to the Pandemic

Is the U.S. Stuck with a Fixed Add-On for Unemployment?

The Cost of Brexit Uncertainty and the Negative Implications for the UK Economy

COVID-19's Depletion of Entry-Level Summer Jobs Can Have Long-Lasting Effects for Young Workers

Demystifying the Belt and Road Initiative

The Wealth Gap Widens

38 Million Have Applied for Unemployment—but How Many Have Received Benefits?

Options for Designing a Public Option

To Preserve Jobs, America's Employers May Have to Get Creative

Relaxing COVID-19 Restrictions Presents Stark Health and Economic Choices

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