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How have tech changes affected older workers?

Limited skill with workplace computing raised the retirement rate for older workers by more than 1 percentage point a year when computers were introduced to jobs after 1984; these differe...

New study shows how much more productive a hybrid workforce can be

After the COVID-19 pandemic ends, 20 percent of all labor in the United States may be satisfied by remote workers, up from 5 percent before the virus struck, according to Why Working from...

This is how trade benefits the US economy

At a time when foreign trade is on the front burner of the national debate, a new study offers estimates of the economic benefits of a globally open economy. Depending on the assumptions...

Boosting innovation: The role of tax incentives

Beginning in the early 1980s, business R&D spending as a share of GDP began to decline in the United Kingdom, while it was rising in most other OECD countries. Concerned about falling...

Should Americans be working into old age?

Raising the eligibility ages for benefits is sometimes advanced as a possible response to the rising cost of Social Security and Medicare that will be associated with the aging of the U.S...

How cables give countries a competitive edge

The best-selling, contrasting narratives of Thomas Friedman in The World is Flat and Michael Lewis in Flash Boys are among the prominent efforts to identify impacts of electronic technolo...

Why today’s inventors can live anywhere