Articles on Economics of Human Resources

HR decisions used to be framed mainly around talent and culture. Increasingly, they’re an economic exercise: cost, value, and productivity...

The Economics of Human Resources in the Informal Economy

Nonexistent Rules in the Informal Economy The informal economy operates in a very different way from the formal economy. Whereas...

The Case Against Labor Unions

It is a common belief amongst the general population that labor unions work in the interest of the laborers. In...

Straight Pay and Variable Pay

Bonuses and their Evolution over Time In the initial decades of the 20th century when the modern corporation began to...

Traditional Workplace Time Requirements Ever since the modern corporation evolved into its present form, it has become the norm for...

Social Media and Access to Personal Information With the advent of Social Media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and...

What is a Minimum Wage and Why is it so Contentious? Many of us would be familiar with the term...

The Growing Trend of Jobless Economic Growth

Economic growth has always been the focus of all governments. This is because it was believed that if economic growth...

The How, What, and Why of Employee Activism at Google In recent months, the preeminent Tech Firm and Silicon Valley...

Why the Gig Economy will not Take Over the Future?

The rise of firms like Uber, Lyft, TaskRabbit, and Airbnb have startled many economists. The number of people working for...

One of the more notable trends of the last decade has been the explosion of gig work — stringers and...