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 compensating differentials rele
Advances in the scale and sophistication of individual income data compiled across high-income countries have enabled researchers to measure inequality and intergenerational mobility at a highly granu
Since the mid-1970s, there has been a sharp rise in the prevalence of “bad jobs” in the U.S. labor market, characterized by stagnant wages, unstable work schedules, and limited fringe benefits.
Intergenerational mobility captures the distance between the socioeconomic positions of parents versus their adult children.
Does a woman’s take-up of government benefits vary with her perception of how they will be shared within the household?
Health insurance premiums are primarily understood to pose financial barriers to coverage.
Comparing measures of work time in the recall CPS-ASEC data with contemporaneous measures reveals many logical inconsistencies and probable errors.
Since the 1990s, neo-institutionalists have posited that "institutions matter". However, they overlook one important issue: the ways institutions change also matters.
Which Americans experience the worst infrastructure? What are the costs of living with that infrastructure?
It is painfully clear that South Africa is performing poorly, exacerbating problems such as inequality and exclusion.
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