While job related reasons like unemployment and a new job are cited as likely reasons for interstate migration, marriage and taxes also matter.
Including the unemployment, quits and participation rates, Janet Yellen's labor market indicators will help her decide whether to raise interest rates.
While economic development can be measured through a history of GDP data, the real yardstick is the history of one street.
Government could tell sharing economy firms like Uber, Lyft and Kitchensurfing if workers will be employees or independent contractors.
Gasoline prices rise faster than they fall because monopolistic competition provides retailers with some price control although their product is identical.
Because middling food like hamburgers is consumed by most people in the affluent West, what we eat does not necessarily reflect inequality or social status.
Although it seems callous, for safety regulation like speed limits and for victims' compensation like 9/11 we need to quantify the value of a life.


