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  Press Release

  Contracted by BLS: Levy Releases Report on Integrating Household Production into Consumption Data

  The Levy Economics Institute’s research project develops an empirical methodology and identifies data sources to extend the consumer expenditure data collected by BLS by incorporating household production (nonmarket and nongovernmental services such as do-it-yourself home repairs and childcare).
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  Research Project Report

  Integrating Nonmarket Consumption into the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey

  In spring 2021, under the direction and encouragement of Commissioner William Beach, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) kicked off a major initiative—to produce a measure of consumption to supplement the release of consumer expenditures. The production of such a measure would fill a data gap regarding household economic well-being. For years BLS staff, […]
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  Policy Notes

  European Job Guarantee

  Despite the gradual economic recovery and positive policy responses during the COVID-19 pandemic, the problem of long-term unemployment continues to plague millions in Europe. To effectively address this and other overlapping crises in Europe, we need radical changes, according to Senior Scholar Rania Antonopoulos; and in this context, the job guarantee policy has been gaining […]
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  Working Paper No. 1046

  The Aggregate Production Function and Solow’s “Three Denials”

  This paper offers a retrospective view of the key pillar of Solow’s neoclassical growth model, namely the aggregate production function. We review how this tool came to life and how it has survived until today, despite three criticisms that undermined its raison d’être. They are the Cambridge Capital Theory Controversies, the Aggregation Problem, and the […]
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  Working Paper No. 1045

  Social Security and Gender Inequality

  This inquiry examines the role of federal policy in gender inequality using the principles of institutional adjustment (Foster 1981; Bush 1987) in the context of the Veblenian dichotomy of habit formation. Specifically, the authors assert that Social Security, though exclusive at its inception in 1935, has undergone significant institutional adjustment. Today, Social Security plays a […]
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  Blog

  Whatever It Takes: How Neoliberalism Hijacked the Public Purse

  Originally appeared on Levy-affiliated project, the Economic Democracy Initiative. The spectacular government spending post-2008 and post-2020 appeared to upend the neoliberal logic of the past decades, enabling bold public action and opening the door to a more just and democratic social order. Specific policy choices stamped out this opportunity. These pivotal moments did, however, point [...]
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  Blog

  How the Taxpayer Myth Gives Life to the Neoliberal Agenda

  The taxpayer narrative is pervasive. It is present in the budgeting process, in the framing of government policies and in daily political life. Issues and debates about the public purpose are all cast in terms of the financials. The first thing asked about a proposed spending policy is “how are we going to pay for [...]
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  Working Paper No. 1044

  Empirical Models of Chinese Government Bond Yields

  This paper econometrically models the dynamics of long-term Chinese government bond (CGB) yields based on key macroeconomic and financial variables. It deploys autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) models to examine whether the short-term interest rate has a decisive influence on the long-term CGB yield, after controlling for various macroeconomic and financial variables, such as inflation or […]
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  Strategic Analysis

  Greece: Time to Reduce the Dependency on Imports

  In this report, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Nikolaos Rodousakis, Giuliano T. Yajima, and Gennaro Zezza investigate the determinants of the recent performance of the Greek economy. Despite geopolitical instability from the continuing Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Gaza wars and higher-than-expected inflation rates, the country has managed to register the highest growth rates among eurozone member-states in 2021 and […]
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  Working Paper No. 1043

  Interest Rate Dynamics: An Examination of Mainstream and Keynesian Empirical Studies

  This paper critically reviews both mainstream and Keynesian empirical studies of interest rate dynamics. It assesses the key findings of a selected number of these studies, surveying the debates between the mainstream and the Keynesian schools. It also explores the debates on interest rate dynamics within the Post Keynesian school of thought. Lastly, the paper […]
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  Working Paper No. 1042

  Saving Social Security

  For more than 25 years, the Social Security Trust Fund was projected to run out of money in 2033 (give or take a few years), potentially causing benefits to be severely reduced in the absence of corrective legislative action. Today (February 2024), projections are made by the Social Security Administration that indicate that future benefits […]
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  The Disconnect Between Biden’s Great Economic Numbers and How Voters Feel about the Economy

  Listen to Levy Scholar Pavlina Tcherneva on Back Ground Briefing with Ian Masters. Available on SoundCloud now.