The Department of Homeland Security publishes a data set on colleges and universities for the 2017-2018 school year. The data set allows for the investigation of how much full-time college enrollment within a county increases the average wages within that same county. The intuition is that full-time college students enter the local labor market upon […]
Month: October 2019
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) publishes the results of an annual employee survey. This note examines the DHS data and finds that the correlation coefficient between a culture of innovation and creativity and job satisfaction is 0.94, which is almost perfectly correlated. This statistic can also be viewed next to the correlation of pay […]
The value of the creative economy in 2015 amounted to $763 billion dollars, which is more than construction, mining, utilities, and accommodation and food service industries. It is also unionized. This article documents how much unions impact wages and employment in the creative economy and also demonstrates that unions have no impact on the gig […]