Josh Bivens

Economist

Books and Studies

DateTitleType
11/13/08 Everybody wins, except for most of us: What economics teaches about globalization Book
03/01/05 Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs: Labor Markets and Informal Work in Egypt, El Salvador, India, Russia, Book

Reports

DateTitleType
02/04/10 Jobs and Wages Tax Cut Should be Part of a New Jobs Package Policy Memo
02/04/10 An analysis of Transportation for America’s Jobs Proposals Issue Brief
01/06/10 Budgeting For Recovery—The Need to Increase the Federal Deficit to Revive a Weak Economy Briefing Paper
12/11/09 House health care bill is right on the money: Taxing high incomes better than taxing high premiums Issue Brief
10/29/09 How we know the recovery package is helping Issue Brief
07/30/09 Should I play or should I pay? Issue Brief
07/30/09 The health care free ride Issue Brief
07/22/09 Tri-Committee Bill Scores Big for Small Business Policy Memo
07/22/09 Health Care Reform—Big Benefits for Small Businesses Issue Brief
02/13/09 Squandering the blue-collar advantage Briefing Paper
12/09/08 A Feeble Recovery: The fundamental economic weaknesses of the 2001-07 expansion Briefing Paper
07/29/08 Obama health plan outperforms McCain plan in coverage and efficiency Policy Memo
05/06/08 Trade, jobs, and wages Issue Brief
12/12/07 The gains from trade: How big and who gets them? Working Paper
12/12/07 The marketing of economics history: Inflating the importance of trade liberalization Issue Brief
10/10/07 Globalization and American Wages: Today and Tomorrow Briefing Paper
09/06/07 Globalization, American Wages, and Inequality: Past, Present, and Future Working Paper
06/19/07 Marketing the Gains from Trade Issue Brief
09/25/06 China Manipulates Its Currency—A Response is Needed Policy Memo
06/14/06 The Wal-Mart debate: A false choice between prices and wages Issue Brief
06/14/06 Wrestling with Wal-Mart: Tradeoffs between profits, prices, and wages Working Paper
03/13/06 Trade deficits and manufacturing job loss: Correlation and causality Briefing Paper
01/31/06 Note to Fed: Don’t Base the Rate Hike on Capacity Utilization Issue Brief
10/25/05 Reclaiming an economic future through democracy: A new direction for economic policy in the Americas Issue Brief
08/01/05 Truth and consequences of offshoring: Recent studies overstate the benefits and ignore the costs to Briefing Paper
04/25/05 Social Security’s fixable financing issues: Shortfall in funds is not inevitable Issue Brief
12/14/04 Debt and the dollar: The U.S damages future living standards by borrowing… Issue Brief
04/08/04 Shifting blame for manufacturing job loss: Effect of rising trade deficit shouldn’t be ignored Briefing Paper
08/01/03 Updated Employment Multipliers for the U.S. Economy Working Paper
07/24/03 The benefits of the dollar’s decline Briefing Paper
04/17/03 Rights make might: Ensuring workers’ rights as a strategy for economic growth Issue Brief

Web-only Content

DateTitleType
01/29/10 Inventory blip boosted growth but won’t last Economic Indicators
01/27/10 Worst economic crisis since the Great Depression? By a long shot. Economic Snapshots
01/13/10 Private sources of spending cannot sustain job growth Economic Snapshots
10/29/09 Recovery Act spurs genuine growth Analysis & Opinion
10/29/09 GDP Picture, October 29, 2009 Economic Indicators
09/14/09 Finishing strong Analysis & Opinion
09/09/09 Health care reform: The endgame Analysis & Opinion
08/24/09 Reform we can afford Analysis & Opinion
07/31/09 More than 500 days of recession Economic Indicators
07/29/09 GDP Preview: The parachute deploys as Recovery Act takes hold Analysis & Opinion
07/27/09 Seeing the big picture on health reform and cost containment Analysis & Opinion
07/16/09 Looking for health care dollars in all the right places Analysis & Opinion
04/29/09 Upside surprise in consumption spending doesn’t stem sharp decline in economic growth Economic Indicators
04/29/09 Unusually bad and getting worse Economic Snapshots
02/25/09 Unions do not undermine international competitiveness Economic Snapshots
01/30/09 Worse Than It Sounds: Largest GDP contraction since 1982 actually understates economy’s weakness Economic Indicators
10/29/08 American consumers shopped but have now dropped Economic Snapshots
09/10/08 Not just gasoline: The sneakier squeeze on family budgets Economic Snapshots
05/20/08 The 21st Century G.I. Bill and short-sighted ‘deficit hawks’ Economic Snapshots
04/30/08 GDP Picture, April 30, 2008 Economic Indicators
03/19/08 As consumption goes, so goes the American economy Economic Snapshots
11/14/07 GDP-per-worker comparisons around the world Economic Snapshots
10/31/07 Economy sees strong growth in the face of housing implosion Economic Indicators
07/27/07 GDP Picture, July 27, 2007 Economic Indicators
07/25/07 Homeowners losing purchasing power Economic Snapshots
04/27/07 GDP Picture, April 27, 2007 Economic Indicators
04/04/07 Current recovery great for profits, poor by most other measures Economic Snapshots
01/31/07 GDP Picture, January 31, 2007 Economic Snapshots
12/20/06 A Plunging Dollar? How Far and Relative to What? Economic Snapshots
10/27/06 GDP Picture, October 27, 2006 Economic Indicators
08/02/06 Inflation: whose fault is it, anyway? Economic Snapshots
07/28/06 GDP Picture, July 28, 2006 Economic Indicators
05/10/06 Critiquing misleading White House statements about the economy, part 3: International comparisons of economic growth Economic Snapshots
05/04/06 Critiquing misleading White House statements about the economy, part 2: International comparisons of employment growth Economic Snapshots
04/26/06 The Importance of Manufacturing in Balancing the U.S. Trade Deficit Economic Snapshots
03/30/06 Gross domestic income: profit growth swamps labor income Economic Snapshots
01/27/06 GDP Picture, January 27, 2006 Economic Indicators
11/30/05 Trade deficits and manufacturing employment Economic Snapshots
11/02/05 Washington Consensus leads to productivity stagnation in South America Economic Snapshots
10/28/05 GDP Picture: October 28, 2005 Economic Snapshots
04/28/05 GDP Picture: April 28, 2005 Economic Indicators
02/17/05 Removing the Social Security earnings cap virtually eliminates funding gap Economic Snapshots
01/26/05 Privatization fix for Social Security is worse than doing nothing Economic Snapshots
11/18/04 Social Security and income Economic Snapshots
07/28/04 Growing ‘‘informalization’’ of employment in the developing world Economic Snapshots
06/02/04 IT software demand exceeds previous peak, employment still lags Economic Snapshots
05/27/04 When do workers get their share? Economic Snapshots
03/15/04 Lack of domestic demand is not the cause of manufacturing’s woes Economic Snapshots
03/10/04 Increase in hi-tech investment obscures weakness in overall manufacturing Economic Snapshots
02/11/04 Wage and salary income yet to share in growth Economic Snapshots
12/10/03 Fast growth for profits, slow growth for wages and benefits Economic Snapshots
11/19/03 U.S. economy still showing signs of slack Economic Snapshots
08/20/03 Defense spending skews economic growth estimates Economic Snapshots
06/27/03 Zoellick’s Zealotry Viewpoints
06/23/03 The War’s Other Shoe | EPI Viewpoints Viewpoints
06/11/03 Falling dollar, rising economy Economic Snapshots
04/21/03 U.S. may be on verge of deflationary spiral Economic Snapshots
04/21/03 Globalization disarms developing nations Economic Snapshots
03/07/03 Why we need stimulus: Symptoms of a defective economy Economic Snapshots

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