American higher education is often understood as a vehicle for social advancement.
However, the institutions at which students enroll differ widely from one another. Some enjoy …

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 …

Since 1973 median compensation has diverged starkly from average labor productivity.
Since 2000, average compensation has also begun to diverge from labor productivity. These …

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 …

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 …

American poverty research largely neglects labor unions. The authors use individual-level
panel data, incorporate both household union membership and state-level union density …

Moral: To understand economics you need to know not only fundamentals but also its
nuances. Darwin is in the nuances. When someone preaches “Economics in One Lesson,” I …

The rise of Trumpism exemplifies a contest over masculinity, over who qualifies as a “real
man.” This contest being waged not only by some obvious actors–President Trump, his …

The decline of labor unions in the United States has been central to the rise of wage
inequality since the early 1970s. Recently, sociologists have noted that unionization …