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The latest HILDA report is out! The HILDA survey is an extremely valuable resource – it asks a large sample of people a whole bunch of questions about income, family life, and other things, and tracks respondents over time. We learn things from HILDA...

By economist Alan Manning, Special to CNN fast food workers have been protesting for more than a year, demanding their wage be raised to a minimum of $15 an hour Editor’s note: Alan Manning is a professor of economics at LSE and director of CEP...

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) abandoned plans requiring its staff to work 37.5 hours per week following an employee backlash. This would have been an increase of 45 minutes per week, or nine minutes per day, over what’s currently required. At face...

Andrew Clark, Sarah Fleche, Richard Layard, Nattavudh Powdthavee, George Ward Andrew Clark CNRS Research Professor at Paris School of Economics (PSE) Sarah Fleche Researcher, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics Richard Layard...

Hilda Monte’s luck ran out on the frontier between Nazi Germany and neutral Liechtenstein at dawn on April 17, 1945, just two weeks before the end of the war in Europe. In London in May 1939 she had persuaded George Strauss, wealthy founder of Tribune...