In every single region of the world, economic growth has failed to return to the rate it averaged before the Great Recession. Economists have come up with a variety of theories for why this recovery ...
Slower growth in the working-age population is a problem in much of the country. Could targeted immigration policy help solve it? By Neil Irwin For many years, American economists have spoken of Japan ...
The report summarizes existing knowledge about the economic and fiscal impacts of immigration since the National Academies' 1997 report, The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of ...
IT IS HARD to keep up with the protest movements under way around the world. Large anti-government demonstrations, some peaceful, some not, have in recent weeks clogged roads on every continent: ...
NEW YORK - Nancy Strumwasser, a high school teacher from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, always thought she'd have two children. But the layoffs that swept over the U.S. economy around the time her son ...
How and why population matters : new findings, new issues / Nancy Birdsall and Steven W. Sinding -- The population debate in historical perspective : revisionism revised / Allen C. Kelley -- ...
Central Asia is undergoing a period of deep socioeconomic transformation driven by demographic shifts, economic restructuring ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN once compared the business cycle to an elastic string stretched on a board. How far the string is plucked determines how much it springs back; similarly, the depth of a recession ...