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June 5, 2023
MainStreet Macro: Gen Z joins the workforce
It’s graduation season. Some young adults will head to college, and some college graduates will continue with their studies. But most members of this year’s graduating class will become new entrants into a dynamic and evolving post-pandemic labor market.
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Domestic offshoring: How housing costs are sorting work across U.S. cities
Economic and political power has historically been concentrated in a small number of command-and-control cities, which serve as nerve centers for business, ideas, and influence.
In recent decades, a growing regional divide between costly and affordable U.S. cities has been joined by technological innovations that make it easier for people in different places to collaborate.
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Domestic offshoring: A city-by-city analysis
Throughout history, economic and political power has concentrated in key cities, hubs of business, technology, ideas, and influence that thrive as command-and-control centers of the broader economy.
Now a transformation is underway.
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MainStreet Macro: Answering questions, and raising new ones, about the complex world of work
This week, ADP Research Institute launches Data Lab, a centralized and in-depth repository of research and information on the economy and labor market.
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MainStreet Macro: The next inflation risk
Lately, I’m reminded of inflation during my morning exercise class. While the first 50 (OK, 35) sit-ups are fast and easy, after that my pace starts to slow. By 60 reps, I’ve gone from fast and easy to slow and irregular.
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MainStreet Macro: The Big Quit is over. Here comes the Big Stay
Last year, workers resigned from more than 50 million jobs. It was the highest number of quits since the government started keeping track in 2000. The great resignation, as it came to be known, was fueled by abundant job opportunities, labor shortages, and big pay increases for workers who quit one job to take another.
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MainStreet Macro: Keeping an eye on the ball
I’m not a great golfer. But in an effort to improve my game, I took a lesson and was struck (no pun intended) by how golf can be applied to the economy. One thing I learned is to mark the ball. Some golfers look at the putter, others at the hole. But looking at the mark as you swing helps with alignment and focus.
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