Casey Mulligan Says There Are Jobs for Those Who Really Want Them

The NYT featured another Casey Mulligan episode of There Is No Unemployment this morning. Mulligan's argument is that if we look at employment rates for the older population we see that they have actually risen in the downturn even as employment for people ages 25-55 plummeted. Mulligan interprets this as evidence that highly motivated older workers are able to find jobs, and if younger workers were equally motivated they would find jobs too.

This is an interesting story. The rise employment ...