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With health care delivery increasingly shaped by market and budgetary discipline, the provision of health care for all seems an ever-more-distant goal.The high cost of American health care is the inevitable by-product of its method of financing. Walter M. Cadette proposes shifting the tax subsidies to health care from the tax exclusion of employment-based health […]

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With the discussion of the balanced budget amendment intensifying as it comes up for a vote again, the February Report highlights analysis of how the amendment might affect the future of the economy, including an editorial by President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and an interview with Alan Blinder, former vice chairman of the Board of Governors […]

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Scholars have begun to find explanations for the growing earnings inequality in the United States—not in inexorable market forces, foreign competition, or technological change in itself, but in corporate choices regarding pay, skill, and the adoption of new technology. This issue of the Summary reports on the work of several scholars in this area: William […]

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Among the activities summarized in this issue are a series of three papers in which Visiting Scholar David A. Aschauer estimates static and dynamic effects of public capital investment on output and employment growth. Contents: New Working Papers: Real Estate and the Capital Gains Debate * Do States Optimize? Public Capital and Economic Growth * […]

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At an ASSA session, “The Contributions of Hyman Minsky,” scholars from the Levy Institute and elsewhere presented seven papers on the development and lasting influence of the distinguished scholar’s work. Portions of the papers are synopsized in this issue. Contents: Exploring the Politics of the Minimum Wage * Protracted Frictional Unemployment as a Heavy Cost […]

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Featured in this double issue are reports on a workshop on the future of the welfare state, papers on assimilation of past and present immigrants and on selective migration among immigrants around 1900 by Joel Perlmann, and papers on alternative definitions of the United States’ fiscal deficit by Neil H. Buchanan. Contents: New Public Policy […]

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This issue features the Debates-Debates program on the advisability of implementing tax cuts, Katherine Newman’s findings on the ability of the working poor to find work, Eugene R. Dattel’s view of structural flaws in the Japanese financial sector, and Resident Scholar Neil Buchanan’s critique of several tax proposals and analysis of the relation between taxes […]

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In this issue: a summary of a Debates-Debates program on the economics of aging, with Chairman S. Jay Levy; an examination of the "Wisconsin plan" for welfare reform; an analysis of the source of the collapse of wages for low-skill workers; and an interview with New York State Lieutenant Governor Betsy McCaughey Ross. Contents: Debates-Debates: […]

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Is the marketplace a social enemy? Is there a role for government intervention? Is downsizing good or bad? These were among the questions considered in a recent Firing Line debate taped at the Levy Institute. Also in this issue: Senator Bill Bradley talks about economic policy, race, aging, and the public’s disenchantment with government. Contents: […]

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Speaking at the Levy Institute’s sixth annual conference on the financial structure, summarized in this issue, Federal Reserve Governor Janet L. Yellen expresses concern that financial innovation has complicated regulating traditional measures of financial soundness. Contents: Annual Conference on Employment * Sixth Annual Conference on the Financial Structure * Forums: Immigration and Ethnicity * The […]

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Highlights of this issue are a synopsis of the Levy Institute symposium on the globalization of financial markets, a summary of Clair Brown’s lecture on standard of living indexes for American families, and an interview with Edward V. Regan, chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation. Contents: Lecture Series: Clair Brown: American Standards of Living * […]

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In this issue: a series of working papers growing out of the symposium “Global Capital Flows in Economic Development,” sponsored by the Levy Institute and UNCTAD; a summary of the annual conference on employment; and a summary of the sixth annual conference on reconstituting the financial structure. Contents: Conferences: The Employment Act of 1946: 50 […]

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New Working Papers in the research program on employment and labor market structure address nonparticipation in welfare programs by the working poor, trends in workplace skill requirements, and a structural approach to wage determination. A series of papers focusing on federal buget policy includes an analysis of biennial budgeting. Contents: New Working Papers: The Working […]

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