Do teachers work dramatically longer hours than other white collar professionals? No.

The rise in income inequality since 1993 has been small.

A January 2012 report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) shows that federal government employees receive substantially higher compensation than similarly skilled workers in the private sector. The report’s methodology and conclusions are broadly similar to previous studies from both The Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute.

The latest Census figures show the United States now has 49.9 million uninsured, an increase of nearly 1 million over the preceding year. Both in terms of absolute numbers and the percentage of Americans without coverage, this is the highest figure recorded since the Bureau began asking questions about health insurance in its annual survey three decades ago.

For nearly a half century, women working in health services outside of hospitals have routinely experienced higher unemployment than their counterparts in the rest of the civilian workforce—typically by two to three percentage points.

The New York Times today reports rising concerns that the role of healthcare in fueling economic growth may be in jeopardy due to cuts contemplated in Medicare and Medicaid. This is old news for those who read my post a month ago. But today I want to focus on the implications of these trends for individual healthcare workers.

A new procedure improves on existing imputation methods in the labor earnings inequality literature.

Reversing decades of overregulation, mistargeted tax subsidies, and lack of transparency in the health care sector would not solve all problems, but it surely would help reduce them.