Mulligan on Redistribution, Unemployment, and the Labor Market

Casey Mulligan of the University of Chicago and the author of The Redistribution Recession, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. Mulligan argues that increases in the benefits available to unemployed workers explains the depth of the Great Recession that began in 2007 and the slowness of the recovery particularly in the labor market. Mulligan argues that other macroeconomic explanations ignore the microeconomic incentives facing workers and employers.

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Mulligan on Redistribution, Unemployment, and the Labor Market is an episode from EconTalk Archives, 2012 by Library of Economics and Liberty.

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This episode was published on Dec 3, 2012.

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