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Confrontational, and maybe they're looking for something that's going to be a little different. so i think you've got a mismatch between employer expectations and worker expectations in some of the jobs right now. and i think the other thing people aren't talking enough about is we've got pretty closed borders around the world, so a lot of the kinds of jobs where you see those help wanted signs, they are looking for immigrants, they're looking for people who might come over on a guessworker visa and none of those guys are coming over. >> what an interesting thing if our immigration policy in t...

Whether you're in a job currently, whether you're out of work, whether you lost work during the pandemic so many people are asking themselves do i need to be doing something different to get the most out of my career and get the most out of my personal life? >> good way to be able to think about life. if what you're saying is true that's probably going to lead to us being generally happier and more productive over time. economist betsey stevenson. >> coming up, it doesn't get a lot of attention as suppression efforts but blue states are doing good things to expand voter access. that's next. ex...

Economy or take this job and shove it phase of this recovery. joining us now betsey stevenson, an economist and professor at inuniversity of michigan. was the chief economist under the president of labor under president obama. in the "the new york times" opp op-ed you said think of it this way the unemployed are not leaving work. they're changing work and it takes time. the unemployed and potential employers are like single people at a giant mixer. there are lots of opportunities but most are unlikely to find the perfect match right away. what does this mean? that the enhanced unemployment ben...

People. is that tied to the $300, or is that tied to this psychological matter you're talking about, or is it all of the above? there are some people who are not sure when they go back to work, they're not sure what happens to their kids. now we're finding out most kids will be in school but caregivers are not all that readily available. so it sounds like there are a lot of things affecting people right now. >> i think there are absolutely a lot of factors. some people don't have their kids back in child care. that's going to be a factor for them. there are some people who found that, you know...

Working, doing things that they want to do versus things that they just have to do. >> what makes an economy productive is when each and every worker is as productive as they can be. that means doing the kind of work in which they are going to be able to contribute the most compared to something else. and when people take more time to get some training or to just search for a really good match, then overall it benefits not just the worker but the overall macro economy, but that's a reallocation. it takes some time. 50% means, yeah, a lot of people are typically looking for new work. 66% is so ...