Research - The CGO

Scope of Practice Reform: Cost Savings and Patient Empowerment

Author Jessica Flanigan finds that scope of practice laws unnecessarily limit patients’ ability to seek specific services from their providers and restrict the range of providers they can see.

COVID

How Price-Gouging Regulation Undermined COVID-19 Mitigation: Evidence of Unintended Consequences

In this paper, the authors use smartphone location data to measure contacts in commercial spaces during COVID to see the effects price-gouging laws had on mitigation efforts.

COVID

How to Reform Occupational Licensing

State-level occupational licensing reform would be an important step toward a lasting economic recovery post-COVID-19.

COVID

A Contingent Wage Subsidy for V-Shaped Recovery

A contingent wage subsidy would cover all new labor costs contingent on less than a certain number of workers being hired.

Immigration

Guiding Principles for Immigration Policy in a Post-Pandemic World

This essay discusses the positive-sum benefits of immigration and decentralized solutions to immigrant needs during COVID-19.

Immigration

The Case for Economic Openness in the Time of Coronavirus

To retain the gains from international trade, immigration, and global capital flows, we need to modernize economic policy to suit the current era.

Immigration

Immigration as a Tool to Boost U.S. Economic Growth and Prosperity

The United States should be a beacon of opportunity that welcomes talented, hard-working people, not one that closes its doors to foreigners.

Immigration

A Proposal for Immigration Reform

Reform should expand immigration, not contract it. Immigration is advantageous to America's economic growth and to our role in a global recovery.

Immigration

Students, Skilled Immigration and Our Path to Recovery

Economic integration and openness to foreign talent are a stronger path for long-term success as a country. See William Kerr's symposium contribution here.

Immigration

The Ethics of Immigration and Economic Recovery

One of the dangers of a crisis is that measures are initially put in place as temporary yet remain thereafter. It’s happened before.

Immigration

Immigrant Entrepreneurs

The importance of immigrant entrepreneurs as firm founders and job creators has grown significantly over the last few decades.

Immigration

Openness Is as Important Now as It Has Ever Been

Despite their distinct contributions to the economy during the pandemic, many immigrants have been largely excluded from CARES protections.

Immigration

How Immigrants Can Help the “Transition to a Great Economy” after COVID-19

COVID-19 risks are generating fear and uncertainty, which may trigger further aversion to immigration and even more restrictive policies.

Immigration

Refugees and Asylum Seekers Can Help us Rebuild after COVID-19

As we consider reforms to our immigration system, we should not be pushing away the very people who are saving lives.

Immigration

Immigrants Truly Make America Great (And Without Them, That Greatness is at Risk)

America has been unique in being both the best country in the world to start a business and being relatively open to aspiring entrepreneurs.

COVID

Tax Flexibility Can Help in COVID-19 Recovery

It is crucial that tax policy not stand in the way of the expansion of New Economy businesses that have proven invaluable during the pandemic.

COVID

U.S. Labor Market Policy Should Take a Page Out of Europe’s Book

Salary guarantees and work sharing would enhance the U.S. safety net and enable the economy to better cope with demand shocks.

COVID

Accelerating Remote Work After COVID-19

Increasing remote work closer to that level would result in economic growth from the substantially greater scale enabled by digital technologies.

COVID

A Pandemic Trust Fund

The Pandemic Trust Fund would insulate and protect pandemic preparation from the political process and budgetary discretion and degradation.