Writing
Blog
Economic analysis, data work, and Python notes from Brian Dew.
All posts — page 5
-
bd CPS version 0.4 released
Version 0.4 of my notebooks for cleaning up and working with Current Population Survey public use microdata is available on GitHub. Sever...
-
Maternity/Paternity Leave in the US
Unlike comparable countries, the US federal government does not require businesses to provide paid maternity or paternity leave to new pa...
-
Income of the Aged, 2019
The resources available to people ages 65 and older depend on several factors. For those working full-time, earnings from work can often ...
-
Measuring Earnings from Work
Despite the ongoing pandemic, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics report that a typical full-time worker earns the equivalent of more than ...
-
Wealth and Income
Recently released data from the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) show a highly unequal distribution of wealth in the US, both betwe...
-
Adding texture to the jobs report
The monthly jobs report shows a widely-cited spike in unemployment, starting in April 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s wo...
-
Teacher summer jobs
I’m curious about how jobs are changing for the roughly 5.5 million teachers in the US. Teaching doesn’t pay as well as jobs that require...
-
Poverty and age
Mismatches between the timing in life of labor income and major expenses cause unnecessary poverty in the US. Labor income (earnings from...
-
How far can full employment get us?
Full employment–a version of the US economy where anyone who wants a job has one–is an important complement to welfare for poverty reduct...
-
Who gets credit for the wage growth of low wage workers?
Last month, I pointed out 7% wage growth at the first decile (10th percentile). The CEA noted this same figure in a recent report, claimi...
-
Wage growth is in the pipeline
If you haven’t looked at the US wage distribution recently, you might be surprised to see nominal growth of 7.0 percent in 2019 Q3 and 6....
-
Choropleth with matplotlib and basemap
When I was using excel to make all of my graphs, the choropleth map was out of reach and particularly alluring. Later, using Stata, I fig...