As income inequality in the United States has reached an all‐time high, commentators from
across the political spectrum warn about the social implications of these economic changes …

US earnings inequality has not increased in the last decade. This marks the first sustained
reversal of rising earnings inequality since 1980. We document this shift across eight data …

Macroeconomics in Context lays out the principles of macroeconomics in a manner that is
thorough, up to date, and relevant to students. Like its counterpart, Microeconomics in …

The two main axes of inequality in the US labor market—occupation and workplace—have
increasingly consolidated. In 1999, the largest share of employment at high-paying …

Rising wage inequality in wealthy countries is disproportionately driven by widening
differences in pay between workplaces, through increasingly homogenous workforces as …

This article aims to explain why inequality in fringe benefits has grown faster than wage
inequality over the past four decades. We depart from previous income inequality research …

Recent studies attribute the rise in wage inequality primarily to widening pay disparities
between rather than within firms. I develop a novel theory to quantitatively explain this fact …

We investigate how the institutional context of the public and private sectors regulates the
association of workplace diversity policies and relational status positions with first-and …

Research on how discrimination lawsuits affect corporate diversity has yielded mixed
results. Qualitative studies highlight the limited efficacy of lawsuits in the typical workplace …

Objective We assess how the distribution of parents across firms contributes to parenthood
wage gaps in a low‐wage US labor market and examine the role of understudied …