Oscar Flores, Economics, had a co-authored paper published in the March issue of The Empirical Economic Letters. Flores and Sandra Hanson McPherson, the main author, found evidence suggesting that unemployment due to the mismatch of skills that potential workers have and employers want increased in Canada during the early 1990s.
Kegan Reiswig and Luke Sperling, Economics majors, presented papers at the undergraduate sessions of the Eastern Economics Association meetings in New York City. Kegan found no evidence that revenue sharing in Major League Baseball has increased league competitiveness; Luke found no evidence that job opportunities near a university negatively affects the university’s freshman retention rate. Oscar Flores, Economics, mentored both […]
Six Economics majors were invited to be referees for Issues in Political Economy, a peer reviewed undergraduate journal. This experience will allow Rachel Metzger, Amber Wolbeck, Joseph Bottrell, Fariha Rahman, Keegan Reisweig, and Tanner McCarty the opportunity to hone their own research skills and to be exposed to work from students of the best colleges and universities in the country. […]
The final Fall Honors Lecture will feature the War on Drugs Wednesday, Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Center for Business 109. Dr. Oscar Flores, professor of Economics, will talk on “Of Zs and Barbies, Drugs and Lords: An Assessment of the War on Drugs.” The lecture is free and open to the public.
Oscar Flores, Economics, had the paper “The unemployment-vacancy relationship in a local labor market” accepted for publication in the journal The Empirical Economic Letters. In this paper, Flores identifies a decrease in structural and frictional unemployment in the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Statistical Area from 1992 to 2001. Structural unemployment occurs due to a mismatch between the skills companies want and those […]