Rising profitability and market valuations of US businesses, sluggish wage growth and a
declining labor share of income, and reduced unemployment and inflation, have defined the …

Inequalities abound in the US economy, and a central driver in recent decades is the
widening gap between the hourly compensation of a typical (median) worker and …

This paper examines the role of spillover effects of minimum wages and threat effects of
unionization in changes in wage inequality in the United States between 1979 and 2017. A …

In recent years, labor studies has flourished even as labor unions in the United States have
continued their long-term downward trajectory. One strain of this research has situated the …

The twenty-first century has seen major changes in both the nature of work and the nature of
families in the United States—even before the COVID-19 pandemic upended nearly every …

The division of firm surplus between labor and shareholders, and its impact on firms' value
creation, are central topics in strategy theory and practice. Early studies of value …

Studies on labor union earnings premiums generally investigate their size through point-in-
time estimates. This study posits, by contrast, that point-in-time estimates of the union …

Labor historians describe Right to Work (RTW) as among the most consequential pushbacks
against the early twentieth-century ascent of labor unions. Yet research on the economic …

Routine-biased technological change has emerged as the dominant explanation for the
differential earnings growth of occupations at greater risk of automation, such as machine …

How do right to work laws affect the distribution of economic resources? While sociological
theories would predict inequality to increase following their passage, previous research …