Publications

With Rising Wages and Record Job Openings, Do We Still Have to Ask if the Minimum Wage Kills Jobs?

If we think work should be rewarded, a higher minimum wage is a great place to start.

Dean Baker / November 05, 2021

Article Artículo

Latin America and the Caribbean

Economy Adds 531,000 Jobs in October; Unemployment Falls to 4.6 Percent

The rise in the index of aggregate hours since July is equivalent to adding 498,000 private sector jobs a month

Dean Baker / November 05, 2021

Article Artículo

Ecuador

The Pandora Papers Are Back in the Spotlight in Ecuador

Did Lasso break the law, known as the Ethical Agreement Law, which prohibits candidates and public officials from owning, directly or indirectly, assets or holdings in jurisdictions that Ecuador considers to be tax havens?

Andrés Arauz / November 05, 2021

Article Artículo

Jobs

Preview: What to Look for in the October Jobs Report

Continuing strength in the labor market; the unemployment rate fell sharply in the last two months, and wages are rising rapidly.

Dean Baker / November 03, 2021

Article Artículo

Environment

Combatting Global Warming: The Solution to China’s Demographic “Crisis”

China has a large domestic clean energy sector which can stand to gain by further spending on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Dean Baker / November 03, 2021

Article Artículo

Affordable Care Act

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in the Build Back Better Deal

What’s in the latest version of Biden and the Democrats’ massive social spending plan? Not everything progressives wanted, but more than might have been expected under a centrist president.

Max B. Sawicky / November 02, 2021

Article Artículo

Inequality

Latin America and the Caribbean

NYT Spreads Fox News Style Misinformation on Family Leave and Childcare

Most wealthy countries with paid leave actually have higher rates of women's labor force participation than the United States.

Dean Baker / October 31, 2021

Article Artículo

Ecuador

¿Estados Unidos como paraíso fiscal? El caso del presidente ecuatoriano Guillermo Lasso

El gobierno de los Estados Unidos tiene todas las claves para descubrir la verdad sobre las finanzas ocultas de Lasso.

Guillaume Long / October 31, 2021

Article Artículo

IMF

Special Drawing Rights: The Beginning of a Paradigm Change?

To discuss how countries can maximize the impact of the SDRs, on October 4 CEPR Senior Research Fellow Andrés Arauz participated in a panel as part of the IMF Annual Meetings Civil Society Policy Forum

October 29, 2021

Article Artículo

Third Quarter GDP: More Good than Bad

In the pre-pandemic period, no one would have considered 2.0 percent growth particularly bad.

Dean Baker / October 29, 2021

Article Artículo

GDP Slows Sharply in Third Quarter Due to Supply Chain Pressures

Service consumption rose at a 7.9 percent rate, despite the delta variant.

Dean Baker / October 28, 2021

Article Artículo

Home Health Care: Latinx and Black Women are Overrepresented, But All Women Face Heightened Risk of Poverty

Given the momentum of shifting to home-based, noninstitutional long-term care for the majority of aging adults, it is vital to raise wages and ensure sufficient hours for workers in this industry.

Anaïs Goubert, Julie Yixia Cai and Eileen Appelbaum / October 27, 2021

Article Artículo

Inequality

Don’t Be Fooled Squid Game Fans, the United States is More Unequal Than South Korea on Several Measures

South Korea is an extremely unequal country, but at the same time, it has taken significant concrete steps to reduce inequalities, especially when it comes to families and children.

Algernon Austin and Tamara Sokolowsky / October 27, 2021

Article Artículo

IMF

IMF Surcharges

IMF Surcharges: “Regressive” and “Bad News for the World Economy”

On October 5, CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot joined Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, economics professor and CEPR Senior Fellow Jayati Ghosh, and Martín Abeles of Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on a panel discussi

October 27, 2021

Article Artículo

Economic Growth

Latin America and the Caribbean

PREVIEW: What to Look for In the Third Quarter 2021 GDP Report

The strong growth we saw in the first two quarters is likely to slow sharply in the third quarter.

Dean Baker / October 26, 2021

Article Artículo

Ecuador

America as Tax Haven: It’s Becoming Part of US Foreign Policy

Opening up the shell companies of Latin America’s oligarch politicians in the United States would match Biden's well-received words with concrete action.

Guillaume Long / October 26, 2021

Article Artículo

Between 1989 and 2020, Spending on Prescription Drugs Rose from 0.6 Percent of GDP to 2.4 Percent of GDP

The current level of spending of roughly $500 billion a year comes to more than $1,500 for every person in the country.

Dean Baker / October 21, 2021

Article Artículo

Disability

The Social Security Disability Trust Fund Has Gotten Healthier: Have Workers?

The financial health of the Disability Insurance Fund has improved, but individuals may be suffering due to an inability to receive the benefits they need to support themselves.

Anaïs Goubert and Dean Baker / October 20, 2021

Article Artículo

Private Equity