The singular focus of public debate on the “top 1 percent” of households overlooks the
component of earnings inequality that is arguably most consequential for the “other 99 …

Decades of research across several disciplines have produced substantial evidence that
labor unions, on balance, reduce economic disparities. But unions are complicated …

We investigate the wage, employment, and reallocation effects of the introduction of a
nationwide minimum wage in Germany that affected 15% of all employees. Based on …

US cities today are vastly more educated and skill-intensive than they were five decades
ago. Yet, urban non-college workers perform substantially less skilled jobs than decades …

Labor market tightness following the height of the Covid-19 pandemic led to an unexpected
compression in the US wage distribution that reflects, in part, an increase in labor market …

We estimate the effect of minimum wages on low-wage jobs using 138 prominent state-level
minimum wage changes between 1979 and 2016 in the United States using a difference-in …

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic
inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global …

Seattle raised its minimum wage to as much as 11in2015andasmuchas 13 in 2016. We use
Washington State administrative data to conduct two complementary analyses of its impact …

This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the margins along which firms
responded to a large and persistent minimum wage increase in Hungary. We show that …

We study the effects of higher labor costs on the adoption of industrial robots by Chinese
firms. We use the number of robots imported by firms from the customs data to measure the …