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Who are U.S. essential workers in the coronavirus lockdowns? McCormack, Avery, Spitzer and Chandra in JAMA

Here's a paper in JAMA that focuses on households with essential workers, many of whom are low …

Clearinghouses are hard to organize in a hurry: volunteer medical workers in NYC

Many healthcare workers are willing and able to come to New York to help with the shortages that Co…

The labor force that is the Army

The Army Times has this story: Choose your job: Army offers soldiers career agency to bolster reten…

College Admissions--the musical (casting call)

Here's the casting call, from Playbill. (College admissions is interesting, and so is the labor…

Unraveling has made investment banks the farm teams of private equity...

...at least that's the argument made in this article (full of nitty gritty detail) at Vanity Fa…

Private equity races for young talent even earlier this year

Eric Budish sends me this pointer to the continued unraveling of the recruiting of young investment…

Predicting stable matches from the preferences of one side of the market: Haeringer and Iehlé in AEJ-Micro

Two-Sided Matching with (Almost) One-Sided Preferences By Guillaume Haeringer and Vincent Iehlé Ame…

Matching in Google's internal labor market

Bo Cowgill and Rembrand Koning have written a Harvard Business School case study called  Matching…

European Job Market for Economists, 2019 (in Rotterdam, Dec. 18-19)

The European Economic Association has announced that a unified European job market will take place …

Cadet branch matching satisfies traditional assumptions: Ravi Jagadeesan in AEJ: Micro

Cadet-Branch Matching in a Kelso-Crawford Economy By Ravi Jagadeesan American Economic Journal: Mic…

Repugnant phrasing

Japan's labor and immigration policies have been more restrictive than welcoming to an immigran…

Finding out what employers value in a candidate, without deception, by Kessler, Low and Sullivan

Many experiments designed to detect how employers evaluate applications employ deception: artificia…

Do child labor laws apply to social media?

The Guardian asks the question: 'It's not play if you're making money': how Instagr…

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