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Specialties that change the work

• Labor economics

  Wages, unemployment, immigration, minimum wage. Heavy on government data.

• Industrial organization and antitrust

  Whether a merger will raise prices. The best-paid branch, and the one that ends up in court.

• Health economics

  Insurance, drug pricing, hospital behavior. Growing fast.

• Forensic economics

  Calculating what someone's lost earnings are worth in a lawsuit. Often self-employed expert work.