Expanding Economic Opportunity for More Americans: Bipartisan Policies to Increase Work, Wages, and Skills

Many workers today find themselves lacking the skills and training necessary to thrive in the modern economy. Most low- and middle-income workers have not seen meaningful wage increases in many years. Millions of men and women are missing from the workforce altogether. These challenges stem from profound shifts in the American economy and necessitate a dedicated policy response.Over the course of the past year, the Aspen Economic Strategy Group collected policy ideas to address the barriers to broad-based economic opportunity and identified concrete proposals with bipartisan appeal. These proposals are presented here

Business cycle influences on exchange rates: survey and evidence

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The ageing population and the size of the welfare state

Issued under the auspices of the Centre's research programme in Intl. Macroeconomics and Public Policy. Also available at http://www.cepr.org/pubs/dps/DP2930.asp target=NewWindow>www.cepr.org/pubs/dps/DP2930.aspAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:3597.9512(no 2930) / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo

The domestic Balassa–Samuelson effect of inflation for the Greek economy

The goal of this study is to assess whether and to what extent inflation differentials between the tradable and nontradable sectors in the Greek economy are due to the domestic version of the Balassa–Samuelson (BS) effect and, therefore, the ‘expensiveness’ of the country and its huge deficit of international competitiveness. Using data over the period 1989 to 2009 from the Greek economy, the empirical results indicate that the domestic BS effect is present for the case of Greece and seems to explain about 33% of the overall inflation rate.N/