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As policymakers consider economic recovery strategies, Susan Athey tells Congress that worker training is a crucial part of addressing the instability & job loss brought on by AI.

SIEPR Director Mark Duggan says California is "in for a lot of pain" with unemployment rates over 13 percent.

A SIEPR policy brief on working from home written by Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom informs this story on the pandemic's effect on the workplace.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Joseph Grundfest discusses the constitutional issues raised by legislation that uses race or gender as a basis for a quota.

The dream of intergenerational mobility is alive: children of immigrants generally experience greater socioeconomic success than they themselves do, according to Ran Abramitzky.

“There’s a spectrum of possible work relationships. And we want to both protect workers along that spectrum, but also allow some amount of flexibility," says Paul Oyer.

“What’s happening now is more companies that thought they could survive are giving up,” said Nicholas Bloom. “The most painful time to lose your job may well be coming up.”

“The euphoria [of working from home] is kind of peaking,” says SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom.

“We’re all suffering from Zoom overload and feeling worn down," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom.

A 2015 study by SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom found that allowing employees to work from home four out of five days a week yielded significant productivity gains.

“Training is not something that can be just left to the private sector . . . ultimately you are going to need public investment,” said Erik Brynjolfsson.

The explosion of working from home, coupled with anti-immigration administration policies, “creates the perfect storm for shifting high-tech jobs overseas,” said Nick Bloom.

Employees have no legal recourse against colleagues who they feel aren’t doing enough—or going overboard—to prevent the spread of COVID-19, said SIEPR Senior Fellow Alison Morantz.

A 2016 paper by SIEPR economists “suggests that black-owned businesses have more difficulty in accessing formal credit channels…[...]

A report by David Grusky found that from 2008 and 2016, the mortality rates of people between the ages of 25 and 34 increased 20%, largely because of suicides and drug overdoses.

“You can’t run an economy with so many people aged 30 to 45 missing...You just have younger and older workers and none of the middle-aged people working,” said Nicholas Bloom.

“I’m a firm believer in post-Covid half time in the office," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom found that employees who worked from home were more productive, needed fewer sick days, and took less time off. "9-to-5 actually became 9-to-5."

A 2014 experiment run by Nick Bloom showed that telecommuting increased productivity by 13%—employees worked more minutes per shift & took more calls while working from home.