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American Bankers Association

+ - senior director, banking & economic research, section: full-time nonacademic, location: washington, district of columbia, united states, jel classifications:, application requirements:.

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Angelo State University / Texas Tech University

Norris-vincent college of business, department of accounting, economics & finance / free market institute, + - assistant professor of economics / research assistant professor, section: us: full-time academic (permanent, tenure track or tenured), location: san angelo/lubbock, texas, united states, jel classification: 00 -- 00 - default: any field.

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Application instructions:, arizona state university, school of civic and economic thought and leadership, center for the study of economic liberty, + - postdoctoral research scholar, section: us: other academic (visiting or temporary), location: tempe, arizona, united states, jel classification: b -- history of economic thought, methodology, and heterodox approaches, w. p. carey school of business, l. william seidman research institute.

• https://seidmaninstitute.com/
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Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Economics department, + - economist (project economics), location: beijing, china, jel classification: e0 -- general, austin peay state university, college of business, accounting, finance & economics, + - assistant professor of economics, location: clarksville, tennessee, united states.

• https://www.apsu.edu/human-resources/

Bates College

Social sciences, + - visiting assistant professor of economics, location: lewiston, maine, united states, jel classification: e -- macroeconomics and monetary economics, beijing normal university, bay area international business school, + - assistant professor/ associate professor/ full professor, section: international:full-time academic (permanent, tenure track or tenured), location: zhuhai, guangdong province, china.

• https://bibs.bnu.edu.cn/

Bentley University

Academic affairs, + - lecturer, location: waltham, massachusetts, united states.

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Berkeley Research Group, LLC

Economics & financial consulting, + - managing economist, block science, inc., + - engineer, economics and mechanism design (remote), location: philadelphia, pennsylvania, united states, boston college, carroll school of management, center for retirement research, + - 2024 dissertation fellowship program, location: chestnut hill, massachusetts, united states, jel classification: a1 -- general economics.

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+ - 2024 Steven H. Sandell Grant Program

Section: us: other academic (part-time or adjunct), boston university, arts & sciences, + - part-time lecturer, location: boston, massachusetts, united states, school of public health, department of health law, policy and management, + - research scientist, bryn mawr college, economic department, + - visiting assistant professor, location: bryn mawr, pennsylvania, united states, california energy commission (cec), division of petroleum market oversight (dpmo), economic branch, + - deputy chief economist and senior economic analyst, location: sacramento, california, united states.

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California Independent System Operator

Department of market monitoring, + - economist - electricity market monitoring & analysis, location: folsom, ca, california, united states.

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California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Hss- - quantifying the costs of sea level rise, + - postdoctoral scholar, location: pasadena, california, united states, jel classification: q5 -- environmental economics, california's legislative analyst's office, economy, taxes and labor, + - fiscal and policy analyst / economist.

• https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/laoca/

Center for Industrial and Business Organization, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics

+ - assistant/associate/full professor, location: dalian, liaoning province, china, jel classification: l -- industrial organization.

• http://cibo.dufe.edu.cn/

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Federal fiscal policy, + - chief economist, location: washington, dc, district of columbia, united states.

• https://www.cbpp.org/careers/chief-economist-or-vi ...

Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye

+ - economist, location: istanbul, turkey, chung-hua institution for economic research, + - assistant research fellow (equivalent to assistant professor) or above, location: taipei, taiwan.

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Equity Quantitative Research

Quantitative research, + - equity quantitative research | equity model research | quantitative researcher, location: new york city, new york, united states, jel classification: c0 -- general.

• https://www.citadel.com/careers/details/equity-qua ...
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Clemson University

+ - assistant, advanced assistant or associate professor, location: clemson, south carolina, united states, coherent research institute, macro roundup, + - research editor, section: other nonacademic (temporary, part-time, non-salaried, consulting, etc.), location: new york, new york, united states, college of global banking and finance, + - assistant professor, associate professor, professor, location: taipei city, taiwan, jel classification: g0 -- general, college of the holy cross, economics and accounting, location: worcester, massachusetts, united states.

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Colorado College

Economics and business, + - visiting assistant professor, economics, location: colorado springs, colorado, united states, columbia university, arts and sciences, department of political science, + - lecturer in discipline at columbia university, lemann family foundation professorship of brazilian studies, department of economics, history, political science, sociology or the school of international and public affairs (sipa), + - associate professor, tenured/full professor, common sense institute, + - senior economist, location: greenwood village, colorado, united states, cornell university, school of industrial and labor relations, labor economics and economics of education, + - postdoctoral associate – labor economics and economics of education, location: ithaca, new york, united states, jel classification: d -- microeconomics, dalian university of technology, accounting, finance, industrial economics, international trade, school of economics and management, + - professor, associate professor, assistant professor, location: dalian, liaoning, china, dartmouth college, arthur l. irving institute for energy and society, + - postdoctoral research fellow, location: hanover, new hampshire, united states.

• https://irving.dartmouth.edu

DCI Consulting

Employment and litigation services, hr & eeo analytics, + - hr senior consultant labor economist, location: united states, denison university, data analytics program, + - visiting assistant professor of data analytics, location: granville, ohio, united states.

• https://denison.edu/academics/data-analytics/cours ...

DePauw University

Economics and management, location: greencastle, indiana, united states, dongbei university of finance and economics（dufe）, school of public finance &taxation, + - assistant professor, associate professor, full professor, jel classification: h -- public economics.

• https://rsc.dufe.edu.cn

Duke Kunshan University

+ - faculty positions in economics, location: kunshan, jiangsu, china, + - visiting faculty position in economics, section: international: other academic (visiting or temporary).

• https://dukekunshan.edu.cn/

Eckerd College

Behavorial and social sciences, + - visiting professor of economics (1 year), location: st petersburg, florida, united states, economic research institute for asean and east asia (eria), research department, location: central jakarta, jakarta, indonesia.

• http://www.eria.org

Emory University: Oxford College

+ - visiting assistant professor/instructor of economics, location: oxford, georgia, united states, jel classification: a -- general economics and teaching, employee benefit research institute, + - research associate, jel classification: y1 -- data: tables and charts, european research university, eruni open research prague, location: prague, czech republic, european university institute, department of economics, + - chair in applied economics, location: florence, italy, fairfield university, location: fairfield, connecticut, united states, jel classification: a2 -- economic education and teaching of economics, federal reserve bank of chicago, economic research, + - senior vice president and director of financial policy, location: chicago, illinois, united states.

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Placement History

The department plays an active role in assisting graduate students with career placement. In a typical year, every MIT Economics PhD graduate finds a job.

Over the past six years, the department has placed a total of 130 graduates in academic, research, and government jobs. Of these, 90 graduates (69%) chose positions at academic institutions and 36 graduates (28%) chose non-academic positions. Of the 90 academic placements, 35 (39%) were at top-15 US economics departments or top-10 US business schools. The tables below break out these proportions for each cohort and highlight some of our top placements.

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Ph.D. in Economics

The Ph.D. program in the Department of Economics at Columbia University trains students to do cutting edge research in economics.  Students in our program do research in all major areas of economics including microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, international economics, labor economics, public finance, industrial organization, development economics, and urban economics.  Our department provides strong training both in theoretical economics and in applied and empirical economics.  The Ph.D. program is primarily designed for students that are interested in pursuing a career in teaching and research within academia but is also useful for student interested in certain positions within governments, research organizations, or private businesses.

The first two years of our Ph.D. program is largely devoted to rigorous coursework. After the second year, however, students devote most of their time to their own research under the supervision of faculty advisors. Students in our program generally complete their Ph.D. in 5 or 6 years.

Admission to the Ph.D. program is highly selective.  We receive approximately 1,000 applications each year for an incoming class of roughly 25 students.  We place a high value on attracting the very best minds, and recruiting members of groups who will both enhance the diversity of research in the field and contribute to the diversity of the university’s academic and professional community.

The Ph.D. program has a long and illustrious history.  Alumni of the program include some of the most distinguished economists of the last century – including Nobel Prize winners Kenneth J. Arrow, Milton Friedman, Simon Smith Kuznets, and William S. Vickrey.

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Throughout the year, there are always many opportunities available to undergraduates to enhance your knowledge and experience in the field of Economics.  Below are different types of opportunities currently available.

The Ec Department runs a  Semester Undergraduate Program for Economics Research  (SUPER), which pairs students with faculty for semester-long RA positions. The application and hiring cycle for Fall 2023 is now closed. The Spring 2024 cycle will accept applications starting in Dec/Jan. Please stay tuned  on our website  (and make sure you are signed up on our listserv to hear when SUPER is accepting applications).

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The Point72 Data Scholars Program : The Point72 Data Scholars Program is a one-day training program for 50 first and second-year college students to gain a deeper understanding of the hedge fund industry and emerging applications for data science in investing. Deadline: 4/21/2024 (posted 4/15/2024)

Research assistant, EV charging ( Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability ): Vice Provost Jim Stock and Senior Fellow Elaine Buckberg seek a paid undergraduate RA for research on EV charging. Their Harvard-led team of researchers are working to accelerate progress on public EV charging as a pathway to achieving widespread EV adoption and unlocking its climate benefits. Full-time candidates preferred; candidates should be available at least 20 hours/week for at least 12 weeks of the summer. Proficiency in Python, Excel, and PowerPoint is required. Responsibilities will include web scraping, analyzing quantitative data, and background research. Read more about the project here . Please contact Elaine Buckberg ( [email protected] ) with resume, 200-300 words on your interest in the position, and your summer availability. Deadline: none given (posted 4/10/2024)

Research Assistant : Ana Antolin, PhD Candidate in Strategy at Harvard Business School, seeks one to two undergraduate research assistants to assist with various aspects of the research process, including working on background research on state-level gaming laws and legal precedent. Deadline: none given (posted 4/10/2024)

Student Trainee (summer intern) : The Bureau of Economics of the Federal Trade Commission seek interns for Summer 2024. They are looking for advanced undergraduate economics students who are interested in exploring graduate school (such as those considering a pre-doc for the fall of 2025) or economic policy jobs after graduation. They are especially interested in students with substantive experience analyzing data in Stata, R, or Python, and excellent written and oral communication skills. Deadline: rolling basis (posted 3/28/2024)

Fall 2024 Peer Tutors : The Academic Resource Center (ARC) seeks Peer Tutors for a variety of courses for the Fall 2024 term. Deadline: 5/1/2024 (posted 3/22/2024)

Research Assistant: Jared Ellias, professor at Harvard Law School, seeks full-time summer research assistants for empirical research on corporate bankruptcy and financial distress. Tasks will include reading and analyzing legal documents and business and financial data. To apply, please email Professor Ellias’ assistant Alina Kilcoyne ( [email protected] ) with a resume, transcript and a short cover email detailing your familiarity with statistical analysis and Python.  Prior familiarity with financial data, corporate law or bankruptcy is not necessary.  Programming experience is not necessary but is helpful. Deadline: none given (posted 3/11/2024)

Research Assistant: Econometrics tutoring help needed for 10-20 hours for Visiting Fellow. Undergraduate or graduate student who is proficient in using STATA, R, and EVIEWS is desired for part time assistance.  Knowledge of Python will be considered an added advantage. Pay scale negotiable. If interested, please send your resume to Prof. Richard Peiser at [email protected] . Deadline: none given (posted 2/5/2024)

Research Assistant : PhD students in the Harvard economics department (Matthew Lee Chen, Eu-Wayne Mok, and Yu-Jia Wang) seek research assistants to help with data collection for an early-stage project that explores how the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia conditioned political change in China over the course of the 20th century. Applicants considered on a rolling basis and should apply as soon as possible. Deadline: none given (posted 2/2/2024)

Research Assistant : PhD student in the Harvard economics department (Matthew Lee Chen) seeks part-time research assistants for a project that seeks to understand how European exploration around the world conditioned a “culture of science” and imperialism at home. Deadline: none given (posted 2/2/2024)

Summer 2024 Internship : Abdiel Capital seeks summer interns to read financial reports, interview sources, and collect and analyze data. Deadline: none given (posted 2/2/2024)

Summer 24 Internship : The D. E. Shaw group seeks students with an expected grad term of Spring 2025 to apply to their summer 2024 internship program. Deadline: none given (posted 12/27/2023)

Research Assistant : PhD student seeks a research assistant to work on an ongoing project focusing on the intersection between the peace processes and on-the-ground conflict. The role will mainly require scraping data, training a language model, and labelling data. If interested, email Emily Silcock at [email protected] . Deadline: none given (posted 12/27/2023)

Research Assistant : PhD student seeks a research assistant to work on an ongoing project focusing on the intersection between the peace processes and on-the-ground conflict. The role will mainly require combing through news reports to find details of their peace processes. If interested, email Emily Silcock at [email protected] . Deadline: none given (posted 12/27/2023)

Research Assistant : Dr. Ashley Nunes (Harvard Law) is seeking an undergraduate research assistant to work on a project on the economics of decarbonization. Deadline: none given (posted 11/21/2023)

Research Assistant : Professor Leo Bursztyn (UChicago Economics) and Aakaash Rao (Harvard Economics) seek an undergraduate research assistant to work on a project on American political campaigns. Deadline: none given (posted 10/10/2023)

Research Assistant : Professor Alisha Holland (Government, Harvard) seeks a part-time RA with a strong command of Stata to help build and analyze a dataset of international infrastructure contracts for a study of electoral cycles in infrastructure contracting in the developing world. Deadline: none given (posted 9/1/2023)

Research Assistant : Jared Ellias, a professor at Harvard Law School, seeks a Fall Semester research assistant through the Institute for Quantitative Social Science for empirical research on corporate bankruptcy and financial distress. To apply, contact Alina Kilcoyne ( [email protected] ) with necessary materials. Deadline: none given (posted 8/30/2023)

Research Assistant : The Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution lab at the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology seeks an RA for the Fall semester to work on a variety of computational and programming tasks. If interested, contact Mona Xue at [email protected] . Deadline: none given (posted 8/14/2023)

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GPI Fellowship Programme : The Global Prosperity Institute (GPI) is launching the GPI Fellowship Programme, offering candidates a 12 to 24 month paid position working in and helping to grow dynamic small businesses across Tanzania and gain real world experience in driving broad based sustainable economic growth. Deadline: 4/30/2024 (posted 3/27/2024)

Post-doctoral Fellow : The Golub Capital Social Impact Lab in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford seeks fellows for a two year post-doctoral fellowship in field experiments for impact driven social science research working with The Economics of Technology professor Susan Athey and other affiliates of the GC Lab. Deadline: none given (posted 2/29/2024)

Post-doctoral Fellow : The Golub Capital Social Impact Lab in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford seeks fellows for a two year post-doctoral fellowship in applied causal inference with machine learning methods working with The Economics of Technology professor Susan Athey and other affiliates of the GC Lab. Deadline: none given (posted 2/29/2024)

Research Assistant : The Aspen Economic Strategy Group (AESG) seeks a Research Assistant to support its work promoting evidence-based economic policy and support AESG’s Director and Policy Director, both PhD Economists, by producing original economic research and editing commissioned papers. Deadline: none given (posted 2/26/2024)

Economist : Decision Economics, Inc. (DE) seeks a full-time economist to join their economic analysis and quantitative econometric model-based information system forecasting firm serving Corporations, Financial Institutions (Banks, Asset Managers and Traders), and Individuals. Part-time hours are possible for the right candidate. Deadline: none given (posted 1/22/2024)

Research Staff Associate : Columbia Business School seeks a Research Staff Associate for the Economics Division to work on empirical and theoretical research on sovereign debt, the emergence, propagation, and resolution of sovereign debt crises. Deadline: none given (posted 1/3/2024)

Pre-doctoral Researcher : Professors Tong Liu, Lira Mota, Christopher Palmer, and Kerry Siani seek full-time pre-doctoral research fellows for up to two years starting summer 2024 to collaborate on empirical projects in the fields of corporate finance, capital markets, macro-finance, entrepreneurial finance, household finance, and micro-econometrics. Deadline: none given (posted 12/13/2023)

Pre-doctoral Researcher : Professors Joseph Doyle, Alexey Makarin, and Benjamin Vatter seek full-time pre-doctoral researchers to collaborate at all stages of the research process on new and ongoing empirical projects in applied economics. Deadline: none given (posted 12/13/2023)

Pre-doctoral Researcher : Professor Mert Demirer, MIT Sloan, and Michael Rubens, UCLA, seek full-time research assistants for summer 2024 to collaborate on projects in industrial organization. Deadline: none given (posted 12/13/2023)

Pre-doctoral Researcher : David Thesmar & Emil Verner, MIT Sloan, seek fulltime Technical Associates for at least one year, ideally two, beginning in July, 2024 to collaborate in all stages of the research process on a number of new and ongoing empirical projects in the fields of financial economics and macroeconomics. Deadline: none given (posted 12/13/2023)

Pre-doctoral Researcher : Professors Charles Angelucci and Alexey Makarin at MIT Sloan School of Management seek a full-time Predoctoral Technical Associate to help conduct research for several projects in the areas of Political Economy, Economics of Media, Applied Microeconomics in Summer 2024. Deadline: none given (posted 11/22/2023)

Research Assistant : The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) seeks full-time, in-person research assistants to work with senior economists on a wide variety of economic policy issues related to the US economy, tax policy, international finance, political economy, financial services, and health care. Deadline: none given (posted 10/30/2023)

Research Fellow : Prof Marcella Alsan, Director of the Health Inequality Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School, seeks full-time predoctoral research fellows to start in Summer 2024 to support and collaborate on a series of projects related to the economics of health inequality within the U.S. and around the globe. Deadline: none given (posted 10/26/2023)

Strategy Associate : The Fidelity Foundations’ Strategy & Impact team seeks an associate for a strategy consulting role in social impact, with opportunity for learning and growth. Deadline: none given (posted 10/4/2023)

Research Professional :  The Booth School of Business at University of Chicago seeks full-time research assistants for a period of at least one year starting in Summer 2024. Deadline: none given (posted 10/3/2023)

Predoctoral Research Assistants : The Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance at Princeton University seeks predoctoral research assistants interested in macroeconomics and finance, to start in summer 2024. Deadline: none given (posted 9/29/2023)

Associate : Secretariat, an international consulting firm, seeks Associates for Summer 2024 starts in its Washington, DC and San Francisco, CA offices. The Associate position is an entry-level position with opportunities for advancement. Deadline: none given (posted 9/21/2023)

Economics Consulting Analyst/Associate : Charles River Associates seeks analysts at a variety of practices and locations. Deadline: none given (9/12/2023)

Research Assistant : Economics professors Dan Benjamin (UCLA), David Cesarini (NYU), Patrick Turley (USC), statistical geneticist Alex Young (UCLA), and their co-authors seek full‐time research assistants at UCLA with start dates during the summer of 2024. Deadline: none given (posted 9/12/2023)

Director’s Financial Analyst Program : The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) are recruiting for the Director’s Financial Analyst (DFA) position to start in June 2024. The DFA offers two-year full-time rotational fellowships designed to engage new entry professionals in public service work. Deadline: none given (posted 9/12/2023)

Pre-Doctoral Fellowship : Economics professors David Laibson (Harvard University), James Choi (Yale University), and John Beshears (Harvard Business School) seek a full‐time predoctoral fellow for mid-June 2024, lasting until mid-July 2025, with a potential second-year renewal. This will involve work on theoretical and empirical research related to behavioral economics, decision making, household finance, and health behaviors. Deadline: none given (posted 8/31/2023)

Research Assistant : The Federal Reserve system seeks research assistants for Spring and Summer of 2024 to work closely with economists on a variety of research questions and real-world policy issues. Deadline: none given (posted 8/30/2023)

Research Assistant Program : The International Monetary Fund (IMF) seeks recent grads for their Research Assistant Program (RAP). Deadline: none given (posted 8/30/2023)

Compilation of job opportunities for graduating seniors interested in research-based careers ​.

Funding Opportunities

Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund:  Funding opportunities for advancing diversity, inclusion, and belonging through technology driven solutions. All Harvard students, staff, faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and academic personnel are eligible to apply. 

• All  Harvard Fellowships  from the Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowship
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• Harvard University CARAT  ( Common Application for Funding and Travel)
• Making the Most of Funding Sources at Harvard ( Powerpoint )
• Various links for funding opportunities in economics
• Echoing Green Fellowships  for funding opportunities social entrepreneurship
• Frank N. Newman Undergraduate Research Fund in Economics , rolling acceptance
• The Davis Center  for research related to Russia and Eurasia.
• Ec Dept Undergraduate Research and Travel Fund , rolling acceptance (thesis writers only)
• IQSS-OTD Entrepreneurship Program

Other Interesting Opportunities

A Conversation with Professor Sendhil Mullainathan : On Monday, April 22nd, at 6 pm, the Charles River Economics Labs will host Professor Sendhil Mullainathan in Sever Hall 113 for a discussion on the interplay between AI/ML and behavioral economics. Please sign up here to attend .

• Participedia Summer School : Participedia seeks participants for their summer school program on Transnational Democratic Innovations taking place in person at three locations from June 10-15, 2024, held in partnership with Memorial University, the University of the Western Cape, McMaster University, the Coady Institute, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Innovation for Policy Foundation, Missions Publiques, and Democracy International. Deadline: none given (posted 2/27/2024)

Zotero Workshops :  Attend a Zotero class to learn how to easily save references, organize PDFs, create in-text citations & footnotes, and create bibliographies automatically. 

MATLAB Boot Camp : The primary objective is to familiarize students with the MATLAB computational environment.  This boot camp does not suppose any prior experience with MATLAB or computation.

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U.S. and China Continue to Talk, but Economic Divide Remains Wide

Election-year rancor will make it difficult for Washington and Beijing to find areas of cooperation on trade and investment.

By Alan Rappeport

Alan Rappeport is part of a press delegation traveling with Treasury Secretary Yellen to Guangzhou and Beijing this week.

When Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen traveled to Beijing last summer, her mission was to re-establish a dialogue between the world’s largest economies and stabilize a relationship that appeared to have reached rock bottom.

The United States and China created formal economic working groups to keep the conversation going. Months later, Ms. Yellen met with her Chinese counterparts in San Francisco and Morocco. And the Treasury secretary’s consumption of a dish made with psychedelic “magic” mushrooms at a Yunnan-style restaurant in Beijing sparked something of a culinary craze in China, where Ms. Yellen is popular for being an acclaimed economist .

But despite those signs of progress, thorny economic issues continue to divide China and the United States. When Ms. Yellen arrives on Thursday for four days of meetings in Guangzhou and Beijing, the two sides are expected to exchange views on the state of the global economy, the Biden administration’s concerns about China’s wave of green energy technology exports and Beijing’s frustration’s about mounting barriers to Chinese investment in the United States.

“We don’t want to decouple our economies,” Ms. Yellen said on Wednesday during a stop in Alaska on her way to China. “We want to continue, and we think we both benefit from trade and investment, but it needs to be on a level playing field.”

But she suggested that the administration was prepared to take new trade actions against China to ensure the survival of the clean energy sector that the United States has been trying to grow through tax subsidies and other investments.

Here are some of the most contentious issues that have sown divisions between the United States and China.

A flood of clean energy exports

A top priority for Ms. Yellen will be to convey the Biden administration’s deep concerns that a glut of heavily subsidized green technology exports from China is distorting global markets.

Ms. Yellen, during a visit to a solar cell plant in Georgia last week, made the case that a surge in Chinese exports of electric vehicles, batteries and solar technology is problematic at a time when the United States is spending huge sums to try to develop those industries. She maintained that China was following the same playbook it used when it flooded global markets with cheap, state-subsidized steel and aluminum, hurting American producers that were unable to compete.

On Wednesday, Ms. Yellen suggested that the United States could take action to ensure that money being spent as part of the Inflation Reduction Act is not undercut by China’s practices.

“We’re providing tax subsidies to some of these sectors, and I wouldn’t want to rule out other possible ways in which we would protect them,” she said when asked about the potential for new tariffs on Chinese imports.

China has focused on factory production to bolster its sputtering economy. Its exports, measured in dollars, rose 7 percent in January and February over last year. The surge of exports has also angered officials in the European Union , and the bloc announced last month that it was preparing to charge tariffs, which are import taxes, on all electric cars arriving from China.

China has pushed back on claims that its economy is struggling and overly reliant on exports. But it has set an ambitious economic growth target of “around 5 percent” for this year, and reaching it will depend in large part on strong demand for goods produced by Chinese factories — electric vehicles, solar panels and consumer electronics.

American tariffs

The Biden administration has kept tariffs on more than $300 billion of Chinese products. Those levies, first imposed by the Trump administration, remain a significant source of tension between the two countries.

Ms. Yellen came into office saying the tariffs are taxes on consumers and argued that the Trump levies were not well designed. However, rolling back tariffs is particularly difficult in an election year, and Ms. Yellen is unlikely to be able to offer China much relief on that front.

The White House has been weighing the possibility of relaxing some of the tariffs that hit U.S. consumers and imposing new ones that would be focused on China’s green energy exports.

And another round of U.S. solar tariffs could be coming this summer when a two-year pause that President Biden issued in 2022 expires .

China has its own gripes about America’s trade policies and filed a complaint last week with the World Trade Organization contending that the Biden administration’s electric vehicle subsidy policies are discriminatory.

Cross-border investment

The United States and China both say they welcome foreign investment, but their policies remain hostile.

American companies operating in China have complained over the last year about having their offices searched and facing harassment from Chinese authorities. Ms. Yellen, who will meet with American business executives in Guangzhou, has been seeking clarity on the scope of a Chinese anti-espionage law that foreign firms believe will lead to additional government scrutiny.

China’s leaders are pushing to change the perception that the country is no longer a sound place for foreign investors to put their money. Beijing has reason to be concerned: Foreign direct investment in China fell to its lowest levels in three decades last year, and the government took a series of measures that left foreign businesses feeling that the country is an increasingly hostile place to operate. On top of that, concerns about China’s economy have left many companies less willing to tolerate the trade-offs of running a business in the country.

Last month, Premier Li Qiang, China’s second-in-command, said the government was removing restrictions on foreign investment to make the country a “favored destination” for overseas funds.

And Xi Jinping, China’s leader, met with a delegation of visiting U.S. business leaders last week and declared that China remained committed to economic reform.

However, in a sign of the mixed messages from Beijing, on the same day as Mr. Xi’s meeting, China’s state security ministry warned the public about the intelligence risk posed by foreign consultancies — the type of advisory firms relied upon by overseas firms to perform due diligence for investments.

The United States is also taking a toughened approach. During a call this week, Mr. Biden and Mr. Xi discussed the fate of TikTok, the social media platform owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. The House of Representatives passed legislation last month that would force the sale of the company because of national security concerns, and Mr. Biden has said he supports the bill, which still must pass the Senate to become law. China is expected to block a forced sale of TikTok, and Chinese officials are expected to raise the issue with Ms. Yellen.

The Biden administration is also trying to clamp down on the flow of money to China, including banning new American investment in key technology industries that could be used to enhance Beijing’s military capabilities. It has also limited China’s ability to benefit from the Inflation Reduction Act, the U.S. climate and energy law.

As Treasury secretary, Ms. Yellen oversees the United States’ sanctions program, which in recent months has been increasingly directed at China.

In late March, the United States and Britain imposed sanctions on China’s elite hacking units, accusing Beijing’s top spy agency of a yearslong effort to place malware in America’s electrical grids, defense systems and other critical infrastructure, and of stealing the voting rolls for 40 million British citizens.

Ms. Yellen has been vocal in pressuring China not to help Russia evade U.S. sanctions. During a speech last year, she expressed dismay at China’s “no limits” partnership with Russia and called it “essential” that China not provide Russia with material support or assistance with sanctions evasion.

The Treasury Department has also been increasingly focused on Hong Kong-based firms that have been accused of helping Russia and Iran skirt American sanctions.

Technology restrictions

The United States has imposed extensive restrictions on the sale of advanced computing chips, chip-making equipment and related products to China, saying Beijing has used these goods to develop advanced weapons and surveillance systems that ran counter to U.S. national security interests.

China continues to bristle at those restrictions. After the White House revised rules for exporting American artificial intelligence chips and chip-making equipment last week, China criticized the United States, saying it was arbitrarily changing the rules and creating more obstacles to trade.

China sees the tightening controls as part of a U.S. strategy to thwart the country’s rise by limiting access to products critical to advancing A.I. and other next-generation technologies.

Daisuke Wakabayashi contributed reporting from Seoul.

Alan Rappeport is an economic policy reporter, based in Washington. He covers the Treasury Department and writes about taxes, trade and fiscal matters. More about Alan Rappeport

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January déjà vu

• The labor market started the year with remarkable vigor as nonfarm payrolls rose a whopping 353,000 jobs in January, well above the consensus estimate of 185,000 and our estimate of 275,000. The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.7% while wage growth regained some steam. While the hiring strength was likely overstated due to large positive seasonal adjustments, the report indicates that the labor market started the year on solid ground.
• Jobs gains were broad-based in January with the private sector adding 317,000 jobs and the government sector adding 36,000 jobs. The service sector added an impressive 289,000 jobs — the most since January 2023 — led by significant hiring in health care, professional and business services, and retail. And employment in the goods sector rose 28,000 jobs on broad-based gains in construction and manufacturing employment.
• The unemployment rate held steady at 3.7% while the labor force participation rate was unchanged at 62.5% for a second consecutive month. Encouragingly the prime-age labor force participation rate rose 0.1 percentage point (ppt) to 83.3%.
• Wage pressures strengthened with hourly earnings rising a hot 0.6% month over month, partly reflecting the pullback in hours worked. As a result, wage growth rose 0.2ppt to 4.5%, the highest since September 2023. As labor demand and supply continue to rebalance in the coming quarters, we see wage growth converging toward 3.5% this year — a pace consistent with the Fed’s 2% inflation target.
• A notable soft spot in the report was the significant decline in private average weekly hours worked, which fell by 0.6% to their lowest level since March 2020. However, the cold January weather was likely a factor as weather-sensitive industries such as construction, mining or leisure and hospitality saw a sharp decline in hours worked. There were 588,000 workers unable to work due to the bad weather in January — the most since February 2021.
• The stellar payroll gain along with stronger-than-expected wage growth confirm that a March rate cut is likely off the table, in line with Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s pushback at the FOMC press conference this week. But with the Fed’s favored inflation gauge — the core personal consumption expenditures deflator — likely to reach the critical 2.5% year-over-year threshold in the coming months and labor market conditions expected to cool, we anticipate 100 basis points of Fed rates cuts this year at the May, June, September and December meetings.
• This year, the US economy will likely experience below-trend but positive job growth with the unemployment rate likely to be in a slight uptrend but remain relatively low. Employers will become increasingly strategic when it comes to attracting and hiring the talent they need, and wage compression will continue to be used as a lever to keep a lid on overall labor costs. We see the unemployment rate rising to 4.1% by year-end. 

In the details  

Employment growth in January was more broad-based than in recent months with the employment diffusion index — a measure of how many private sector industries are adding jobs — rising to 65.6%, the highest since January 2023. Factoring the upward 126,000 payroll revisions in November and December, along with the annual benchmark revisions, the US economy added 3.1 million jobs in 2023.

Looking into the January details, health care and social assistance remained a key engine of job creation, adding 100,000 jobs, as the sector continues to see strong labor demand amid a lingering shortfall of health care practitioners. In January, employment continued to trend up in ambulatory health care services (+33,000), hospitals (+20,000), and nursing and residential care facilities (+17,000).

Professional and business services posted a 74,000-payroll increase — well above the average 4,000 gain in the prior six months — with employment in computer systems design (+15,000) remaining on an uptrend and a notable rebound in temp employment (+4,000), which registered a positive gain for the first time since March 2022.

Retail employment posted its strongest gain in nearly a year, up 45,000 jobs, driven by general merchandise stores (+24,000) and sporting goods stores (+10,000). The robust January performance partly owed to favorable seasonal factors, which overcompensated on the upside amid weaker than usual seasonal layoffs. And transportation payrolls rose a solid 16,000, driven by warehousing jobs.

Government hiring remained a driving force of labor market strength. In January, the sector added 36,000 jobs led by solid hiring in both federal and state and local government.

Meanwhile, the leisure and hospitality industry saw a modest increase of 11,000 jobs in January, as the accommodation and food services sector shed jobs for the first time since January 2021. Overall, the leisure and hospitality industry has been lagging in the jobs recovery, but employment levels are now back to pre-pandemic levels, suggesting there is likely less room for significant hiring to occur this year. White-collar occupations also contributed to the overall payroll gain with moderate gains in information (+15,000) and finance (+8,000).

On the goods front, construction employment rose by 11,000 jobs, which is lower than the 20,000 average job gain over the prior three months. The cold January weather likely restrained hiring in the sector. Manufacturing payrolls surprised with a 23,000 jobs gain led by the nondurable sector.

Extracting the signal from the noise  

Seasonal noise at the start of the year along with the benchmark revisions and the cold weather blurred the labor market signal in January. Cutting through the noise, the latest package of labor market indicators suggests the labor market remains on solid footing but that conditions are still rebalancing with slower hiring and quitting, as well as signs of easing labor cost growth amid robust productivity gains.

This is consistent with our client conversations that indicate intensifying efforts to control labor costs via better process efficiency and stronger labor productivity. At the same time, wage growth compression is helping employers manage costs while meeting employee demands.

Looking ahead, we expect the labor market will continue to move forward, albeit at a slower pace. We maintain our view that a soft landing is the most likely scenario for the US economy this year, with real GDP likely to grow 2.2% in 2024 and the unemployment rate likely to drift slightly higher toward 4.1%. 

Benchmark revisions  

The January report included the 2023 annual benchmark revision to the establishment survey data. The level of employment for March 2023 was revised downward by 266,000 jobs, which is slightly less than the initial Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimate of 306,000 jobs. Job gains in Q4 are now estimated at an average 227,000 per month, compared to 165,000 previously, in a sign that hiring momentum was firmer than initially reported heading into the New Year. The BLS also updated the household survey data to account for new population estimates, but the total unemployment rate, employment-population ratio and labor force participation rate were unaffected by the revisions. 

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How immigrants are helping boost the U.S. job market without affecting inflation

Blockbuster job growth continues to power the U.S. economy, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting 303,000 payrolls added in March .

Usually, such strong growth might signal that inflation could pick up. If employers see more demand for goods and services, they need to hire more workers — and if there aren’t enough workers, they have to increase pay, which increases the overall cost of running the business.

But while annual price growth, at more than 3%, remains above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, it is still well below the 9% peak seen in the summer of 2022.

Economists increasingly believe that the post-pandemic surge in immigration is a key reason the economy has been able to grow steadily without pushing inflation higher, as the new arrivals have helped employers fill roles at levels of pay that have kept a lid on overall price growth.

In a note to clients published Friday, titled “Why we have both strong growth and lower inflation,” Goldman Sachs chief U.S. economist David Mericle said rising immigration had boosted labor force growth. As a result, the strong demand that consumers continue to exhibit elsewhere is unlikely to raise prices by much, “if at all,” he said.

In fact, so far, measures of labor market “tightness,” like wages, “have continued to fall or move sideways, not rise,” Mericle said.

“Won’t stronger growth prevent inflation from falling or even reignite it?” he wrote. “We don’t think so.”

The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan federal agency, was the first to cite the immigration surge that began in 2022 as the primary factor helping to expand the overall size of the U.S. labor force.

This year, the agency increased its projection of how large the U.S. labor force could be in 2033 by 5.2 million people. Most of that increase is expected to be a result of higher projected net immigration.

The Brookings Institution, a nonpartisan think tank, came to a similar conclusion earlier this month, saying the economy can now tolerate a more brisk pace of job growth without adding to cost concerns.“Faster population and labor force growth has meant that employment could grow more quickly than previously believed without adding to inflationary pressures,” Brookings said.

Wendy Edelberg, a former Federal Reserve economist now serving as director of Brookings’ Hamilton Project, told NBC News the net effect of immigration on inflation is not entirely obvious — but is likely marginal. Indeed, Fed Chair Jay Powell has expressed similar observations, saying the effect of the new wave of arrivals is “broadly neutral.”

What is clear, Edelberg said, is that the immigration surge will allow the economy to tolerate higher levels of job growth without overheating.

“Without immigration, if I’d seen an increase of 300,000, I would have been utterly baffled that wages were not higher,” she said, citing the March jobs report released on Friday.

Wage data shows the annual pace of average hourly pay growth has declined to 4.1% in March after hitting a post-pandemic peak of 5.9% in March 2022.

If the supply and demand for labor were truly out of sync, the pace of wage growth would be much higher, likely translating into higher overall inflation.

Instead, thanks to the immigration surge, businesses in the aggregate can tap into the newly growing labor pool to meet continued demand for their goods and services, without having to raise wages significantly to compete for workers.

For many parts of the economy, from federal Social Security payments all the way down to local businesses that may be looking for workers or new customers, immigration is usually a net good, Edelberg said.

At the same time, it tends to put a strain on state and local budgets , she said.

Immigration now ranks as the most volatile domestic issue facing President Joe Biden, with Gallup survey respondents ranking it as the country’s “most important problem,” the first time it has held that position since 2019. Republicans have called on Biden to take extreme measures to stem the entry of migrants, while former President Donald Trump has referred to them as “not humans” and “animals.”

Big cities like New York and Chicago, meanwhile, have faced crises stemming in part from political stunts by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that have involved sending migrants to those cities at a pace they’re not equipped to handle.

But while the focus of the debate has been on undocumented immigration, the majority of immigrants arriving are actually authorized to work in the U.S., Edelberg said.

Plus, they’re more likely to spend a greater share of their labor income.

“So they’re increasing the demand for goods and services, and helping to supply labor,” she said. “So the net effect on inflation is actually small.”

Rob Wile is a breaking business news reporter for NBC News Digital.

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