Sustainability for people and the planet: placing workers at the center of sustainability research
Though workers play a critical role in many contemporary work organizations, they are often overlooked in conversations about sustainable business.
Research
How Tight Are U.S. Labor Markets?
Since the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, labor market indicators that traditionally move together have been sending different signals about the degree of slack in the U.S. labor market.
Gender, Selection into Employment, and the Wage Impact of Immigration
Immigrant supply shocks are typically expected to reduce the wage of comparable workers.
Goals and Gaps: Educational Careers of Immigrant Children
We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system.
Hunger for Stability Quells Appetite for Change: Results of the 2021 Education Next Survey of Public Opinion.
Calamities often disrupt the status quo. After the influenza pandemic that began during World War I and lasted two years, many Europeans turned to socialism, fascism, and Bolshevism.
Employment Structure and the Rise of the Modern Tax System
This paper builds a new microdatabase that covers 100 countries at all income levels and long-run time series in the United States (1870–2010) and Mexico (1960–2010) to document how the modern tax sys
Parent Poll Reveals Support for School Covid-Safety Measures Despite Vaccine Hesitancy, Partisan Polarization: Private-school parents report less learning loss, greater satisfaction with pandemic scho
The 15th annual Education Next survey, conducted in June 2021, yields a host of specific results that reveal one large fact about the current state of public opinion on American education: The public
A Half Century of Progress in U. S. Student Achievement: Ethnic and SES Differences; Agency and Flynn Effects
Principals (policymakers) disagree as to whether U. S. student performance has changed over the past half century.
Immigration and Occupational Comparative Advantage
Job choice by high-skilled foreign-born workers in the US correlates strongly with country of origin. We apply a Fréchet-Roy model of occupational choice to evaluate the causes of immigrant sorting.
Fixing capitalism’s good jobs problem
Conventional welfare state policies that centre on education, training, progressive taxation, and social insurance are inadequate to address labour market polarization, which is capitalism’s most pres
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