Publications: Meghan Ostertag
January 21, 2025
Fact of the Week: Robot Adoption Leads to Economic Growth in Highly Productive Nations
A study found that countries with the highest robot density will see accelerated economic growth from robot adoption and will also see heightened robot accumulation in the future.
January 15, 2025
The EU Has Been Taking Advantage of America’s Effort to Combat Chinese Economic Mercantilism
The EU over the last 7 years has cravenly ducked the industrial fight against China, attempting to expand its exports while America shoulders the costs. That cannot be allowed to continue as the new Trump administration ratchets up pressure against our common adversary.
January 6, 2025
Fact of the Week: US Labor Productivity Is Rising, Potentially Suggesting Another Productivity Boom in This Decade
Average annual growth of U.S. labor productivity over the past five years hit 1.9 percent in the third quarter of 2024.
December 23, 2024
Fact of the Week: Employees at Large Firms Perform More Non-Routine Problem-Solving Than Small Firm Employees.
A recent report analyzed how firm size relates to work tasks to discover how firm size impacts employee tasks, finding that employees at large firms, despite having narrowly defined jobs, perform more non-routine analytical tasks and use information and communication technologies (ICT) more intensively than equivalent workers at small firms.
December 13, 2024
Fact of the Week: Wages in ICT Services Have Grown Faster Than Wages Within the Total Business Sector in Europe
In the EU-27 countries, from 2013 to 2022, annual wages increased by 0.24 percent in information and communication technology (ICT) services compared to 0.20 percent across the rest of the economy.
December 2, 2024
Fact of the Week: The US Leads the World in 5G Connections, With 68.4 Connections per 100 Inhabitants
As of 2023, the United States leads the OECD in 5G connectivity with 68.4 connections per 100 inhabitants.
November 22, 2024
Fact of the Week: Over 20 Percent of New Businesses in the United States Are Started by Immigrants
Immigrants, whom make up about 14 to 15 percent of the U.S. population, have an outsized role in entrepreneurship, starting over 20 percent of new businesses in America.
November 15, 2024
Fact of the Week: Opening a Starbucks in Neighborhoods With No Existing Coffee Shop Leads to an Increase in Local Entrepreneurship
Starbucks cafes establish a location for networking and have a substantial effect on entrepreneurship, leading to an increase of new businesses from 5.5 percent to 13.6 percent.
November 15, 2024
US-India Subnational Innovation Competitiveness Index
For policymakers to bolster the global competitiveness of their nations and regions, they first must know where they stand. This report benchmarks the 87 regions of India and the United States using 13 commonly available indicators of strength in the knowledge economy, globalization, and innovation capacity.
November 11, 2024
Fact of the Week: Robot Adoption in Nursing Homes Is Positively Correlated With Productivity, Revenue, and Quality of Care
Nursing homes are notorious for worker shortages, which worsens the quality of care for patients and the work environment for employees. Japanese nursing homes have begun deploying robots to address these problems.