China's One-child Policy: redundant and now go

Mike Smitka, Prof of Economics, Washington and Lee Here I discuss the end of China's one-child policy. In my weekly WREL economics segme...

Japanese Suppliers: May the New Year be Happier!

originally posted at The Truth About Cars , Jan 2, 2015 Go HERE for an index of my posts there 車輸送カルテル罰金、日本郵船７１億円で合意 OK, you probably can...

Labor Market Update: little bad news, but no acceleration

I post below a series of graphs on the US labor market updated through September 2014. As I read it, the latest CES (Current Employment Surv...

Japan's Changing Labor Force

...it's too late for less male-centered policies... A concurrent set of posts on the NBR Japan Forum is on the role of women in the labo...