Rich, western countries face a stark choice: 6-day workweeks or more immigration, top economist warnsBy Press Room4 August 2024 A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of aging. Many Western countries are facing what the World Bank calls…
H1-B visas are the lifeblood of U.S. tech innovation–and the shortcut to semiconductor supremacyBy Press Room23 April 2024 In December, Samsung delayed a Texas-based chip manufacturing facility’s start date. In January, the Taiwanese chip manufacturing company TSMC pushed back one of its…
Immigration, productivity, inflation: Why finding the pandemic’s ‘missing women’ could be the solution to almost every challenge facing the U.S. economy todayBy Press Room18 April 2024 In the face of sticky inflation and a persistently tight labor market, policymakers and economists have proposed various solutions, from…
The number of job vacancies around the world is still unusually high–and there is no end in sight to the global labor shortageBy Press Room10 April 2024 Job vacancies have stayed high or have been rising in various parts of the world, despite slower global growth and…