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Saving for retirement
Douglas Clement | Managing Editor
February 13, 2020
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Construction activity seeing uptick; firms upbeat about 2020
Ronald A. Wirtz | Director, Regional Outreach
February 4, 2020
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Unemployment insurance claims low, but break recent downward trend
Ronald A. Wirtz | Director, Regional Outreach
February 4, 2020
Article
Land O’Lakes President and CEO Beth Ford
A different kind of labor shortage
Tu-Uyen Tran | Senior Writer
January 29, 2020
Article
Leonidas Murembya and Nancy Hodur speaking
State economists: As 2020 arrives, labor shortages span the Ninth District
Tu-Uyen Tran | Senior Writer
January 29, 2020
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2020 outlook: Optimism, with a healthy dose of caution
Ronald A. Wirtz | Director, Regional Outreach
January 17, 2020
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Staff Reports
Implications of Increasing College Attainment for Aging in General Equilibrium
Juan Carlos Conesa | Stony Brook University Timothy J. Kehoe | Consultant Vegard M. Nygaard | University of Houston Gajendran Raveendranathan | McMaster University
January 14, 2020
Research
Recipe for growth? Just add workers
Ronald A. Wirtz | Director, Regional Outreach
December 23, 2019
Article
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Spatial Wage Gaps in Frictional Labor Markets
Sebastian Heise | Federal Reserve Bank of New York Tommaso Porzio | Visiting Scholar, Institute
December 23, 2019
Research
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Manning Up and Womaning Down: How Husbands and Wives Report Earnings When She Earns More
Marta Murray-Close | U.S. Census Bureau Misty Heggeness | Visiting Scholar, Institute
December 10, 2019
Research
Working Papers
Labor Market Trends and the Changing Value of Time
Job Boerma | Research Analyst Loukas Karabarbounis | Consultant
September 20, 2019
Research
Conversations with The Fed
Investing in Minnesota’s workforce infrastructure: Early care and education as economic development
Rob Grunewald | Economist
September 5, 2019
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