Mikal Skuterud
@mikalskuterud
Professor of Economics at @UWaterloo; Director of @CLEForum; Fellow-in-Residence at @CDHoweInstitute. Disclosure statement: https://t.co/0HbWBOeJeF
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http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~skuterud/ 07-11-2013 13:14:39
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Excellent piece on the economic challenges of heightened immigration by Corbin Duncan at the The Economist. It was a pleasure discussing the issues with him. His final sentence captures the crux of it perfectly.
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Diverging SEPH and LFS estimates receiving more attention. Explanations given miss main factor - surging NPR population and impact on LFS sampling weights. Time for Statistics Canada to provide clarity.
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Gold Investor Mikal Skuterud No, this doesn't confirm that 'media questions are pre-screened by handlers.' And Mikal, thanks for input but we got input from a lot of people and only used a small fraction.
My colleague, Mikko Packalen, has long argued that economists failed in assessing the costs of COVID public health measures, especially the costs imposed on our children. I struggle to disagree with him.
Mikal Skuterud Andrew Griffith To Mikal's point. I think it's fair to say some economists were ahead of the curve on this. Here's a column I wrote almost exactly a year ago on this exact thing.
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