Rising Young Worker Despair in the United States(nber.org)

27 points by johntfella 1 year ago | 32 comments

Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment?(nber.org)

178 points by lxm 1 year ago | 394 comments

Why do we have so many meetings?(nber.org)

68 points by ilamont 6 days ago | 172 comments

NBER working paper by David Deming and coauthors presenting large-scale economic evidence on workplace meetings from a survey of over 9,000 workers.

The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state(nber.org)

419 points by imakwana 1 year ago | 413 comments

NBER working paper by Allcott, Gentzkow and others studying how deactivating Facebook and Instagram affects users' emotional state.

Long-Run Effects of H-1B Immigration on the U.S. Economy (July 2026)(nber.org)

54 points by ryzvonusef 2 months ago | 14 comments

Explaining the Widening Divides in US Midlife Mortality: Is There a Smoking Gun?(nber.org)

48 points by bikenaga 10 months ago | 47 comments

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation(sciencedirect.com)

341 points by ck45 3 years ago | 219 comments

Abstract page for a Journal of Experimental Social Psychology paper finding that loyal workers are selectively targeted for exploitation by managers.

Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds(bloomberg.com)

706 points by simula67 2 years ago | 467 comments

Bloomberg article reporting a San Francisco Fed study finding no evidence that remote work affects productivity, with about 30% of paid workdays remote at end of 2023.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

How employment is changing at Anthropic(anthropic.com)

58 points by theanonymousone 8 days ago | 74 comments

Anthropic research post in its Economics series examining how employment and work are changing inside Anthropic.