Mike Spence - What a Nobel Laureate Thinks AI Does to Education
The theory of labor market signaling changed how economists think about education, hiring, and information. Fifty years later, AI is rewriting the conditions that made the theory work.In this episode,...
30 Sep 1h
Anna Stansbury - Worker Power, Wages, and What's Gone Wrong in the American Labor Market
The labor share of income has dropped from roughly two thirds to below sixty percent since the early 1980s. The US looks like an outlier even among rich countries.In this episode, Ben sits down with A...
23 Sep 49min
Paul Osterman - The Disposable Worker: How Firms Learned to Stop Investing in People
The unspoken employment contract, characterized by stable jobs, career ladders, wages that rose with productivity, didn't dissolve overnight. Firms chipped away at it deliberately, and the result is a...
16 Sep 52min
David Deming - What's Happening to Young Workers, and What College Should Do About It
For the first time in recent history, new college graduates have a higher unemployment rate than the general population. The causes are tangled, the implications are serious, and universities are caug...
9 Sep 48min
Ioana Marinescu - Why Workers Are Underpaid, and What We Could Do About It
Most people earn less than they're worth. Not because they're not productive, but because the labor market isn't nearly as competitive as it could be.In this episode, Ben sits down with Ioana Marinesc...
2 Sep 51min
Roberto Rigobon - Why We're Getting Worse at Measuring
The economy is changing faster than our ability to track it. And the data sources we rely on most, like surveys, official statistics, and government indices, were designed for a world that no longer e...
26 Aug 57min
Deena Mousa - What AI Means for the Developing World
The standard debate about AI and jobs is a rich-country debate. But for billions of people in low- and middle-income countries, the stakes and the story look completely different.In this episode, Ben ...
19 Aug 37min
