Today on the show, a former economics educator gives us a Barbie pink-colored lens on the labor market. You can find the St. Louis Fed's Barbie curriculum here.

What can the types of professions Barbie's done tell us about women in the U.S. labor force? A lot, actually. With more than 200 careers under her belt, Barbie's resume can tell us a lot about the ...

The Idea: American elites tend to harbor ambivalent feelings about manual labor and the blue-collar trades, which are increasingly identified as jobs of the past, only suitable for low-skilled or ...

Wailin Wong and Adrian Ma from our daily economics podcast The Indicator give us a crash course in labor economics, Barbie-style. WAILIN WONG, BYLINE: For today's lesson in Barbie labor economics ...