Links for 01-08-16

• Defunding Public Sector Unions Will Diminish Democracy - Richard Kahlenberg
• Intellectual property and the decline of the U.S. labor share - Nick Bunker
• As States Cut Funding, Tuition at Public Colleges Soars - The Fiscal Times
• The trouble with student loans? Low earnings, not high debt - Susan Dynarski
• Three Questions to Judy Klein - Institute for New Economic Thinking
• The paradox of plenty - Stumbling and Mumbling
• The dollar’s international role: An “exorbitant privilege”? - Ben Bernanke
• Patent rights and innovation by small and large firms - Vox EU
• What Occupational Projections Say about Entry-Level Skill Demand - macroblog
• On models and forecasts, and how one implies the other. - longandvariable
• How important are interest rates for exchange rates? - Bank Underground