Extreme temperatures in El Salvador destroy farm jobs and push workers abroad.Source: zenpixDuring the Great Recession, migration from Mexico to the United States began to fall, a pattern economists attributed to weaker job prospects and tightening immigration enforcement. Migration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, however, did not follow suit. E...
EEA’s Minorities in Economics Committee is pleased to announce its First Annual Minority in Economics Mentoring Workshop for Economics PhD students and Early Career Economists in collaboration with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom on July 13-14, 2026. The workshop aims to support late-stage economics PhD students or early-career resear...
A natural experiment in Louisiana shows private plans can cut drug costs without reducing observed quality.Source: diego cervoWhen governments transfer public health programs to private firms, the promise is to lower costs while providing the same quality of healthcare. Whether privatization actually delivers on that promise has been hard to measure becaus...
A rise in work from home explains most of the postpandemic gain in full-time employment among people with physical disabilities.Source: YacobchukEmployment among people with disabilities has remained well below that of the broader population, with an average disability employment gap of 27 percentage points across OECD countries. In the United States, this...
IAE Business SchoolSpanish (English below)La Academy of Management (AOM) se complace en anunciar el AOM Andes Connect Workshop, un programa de desarrollo de investigación diseñado para estudiantes de doctorado y académicos en etapas iniciales que trabajan en estudios organizacionales y de estrategia. El workshop tiene como objetivo fortalecer las capaci...
By Daniel ButcherThe late Academy of Management Scholar Royston Greenwood of the University of Alberta School of Business was a sports fan who used discussions of hockey coaches’ decisions to illustrate lessons in mentorship and leadership. One of the world’s most highly cited researchers in the field of management and organization studies, he is best kn...
Limiting the cannibalization of existing patented productsSource: l i g h t p o e tWhen firms develop new products, conventional economic theory holds that the decision involving whether to perform in-house R&D or to outsource comes down to a standard set of considerations: relative competence, the cost of negotiating contracts, and the incentive probl...
The European Economic Association is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 EEA Teaching Awards.After a highly competitive selection process, involving a wide range of outstanding nominations, the following individuals and teams have been recognised for their excellence and innovation in teaching.Early Career Award: Manzura Jumaniyazov Technical Un...
Don't overlook U.S. government subsidies as a crucial foundation of Elon Musk's eye-popping fortune. Source: ShutterstockPublished on: June 12, 2026 at 9:50 amBy Daniel ButcherAs of Thursday, 11 June 2026, after rocket, satellite, and AI company SpaceX raised a record $75 billion in its initial public offering, Elon Musk has officially become the w...
The impact of unionization on the salaries of faculty at Canadian universities.Source: Joe PietteThe decline of organized labor is frequently linked to widening income gaps, yet credible evidence on how unions affect the full distribution of wages remains scarce. It has been difficult for studies to distinguish compositional effects (the systematic differe...
