In the Great Depression, employment and investment were…

In the Great Depression, employment was not low because investment was low. Employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial policies…

— Edward C. Prescott

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got…

— Clint Eastwood

If you and your skills are a complement to the computer, your wage and labor market prospects are likely to be cheery. If your…

— Tyler Cowen

A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into…

— William Julius Wilson

A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into…

— William Julius Wilson

Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.

— Alan Bersin

“The problem, he said, wasn’t going to solve itself: “[T]oo many people are coming into the labor market and too many machines are throwing…

— Martin Ford

“One way is to do some research and find out how long the job has been posted. In a good labor market, a job…

— Bill Burnett

In any given month, a large number of workers are being hired or are leaving their current jobs, illustrating the dynamism of the U.S.…

— Ben Bernanke

Most mothers entering the labor market outside the home are naive. They stagger home each evening, holding mail in their teeth, the cleaning over…

— Erma Bombeck

“the message the labor market is clearly sending is that it’s much easier to create value with highly educated workers.”

— Erik Brynjolfsson

American workers have faced serious difficulties in the labor market since the first oil shock in 1973. Since that time, the pace of productivity…

— Janet Yellen

We're finding that very well-educated people, people who have done everything right, are behind, really behind. And they are hoping they can stay in…

— Teresa Ghilarducci

The pace of increases in labor compensation provides another possible indicator, albeit an imperfect one, of the degree of labor market slack.

— Janet Yellen

Private sector labor market flows provide additional indications of the strength of the labor market. For example, the quits rate has tended to be…

— Janet Yellen