21. Occupation Employment Trends and Wage Inequality: What the Long View Tells Us
(Matching tags: jobs, inequality, wages)

This post is the third in a short series that assesses the role of technological change and job polarization in wage inequality trends. The discussion of job polarization—the expansion ...

22. Timing Matters: Can Job Polarization Explain Wage Trends
(Matching tags: jobs, inequality, wages)

The recently posted introduction of Assessing the job polarization explanation of growing wage inequality, a paper I wrote with Heidi Shierholz and John Schmitt, has started to raise some ...

23. The Chained CPI is a Bad Deal for Kids and Low-Income Working-Age Adults Too
(Matching tags: poverty, retirement, inequality, Social Security, Supplemental Security Income)

Criticism of proposals to shift to the Chained CPI have focused almost exclusively on how the switch would harm seniors. But as Alan Barber and Nicole recently noted in a CEPR brief, the switch would also ...

24. Nick Kristof Needs to Stop Spouting (and Tweeting) Shoddy Statistics About Young People with Severe Disabilities
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, Supplemental Security Income)

I wrote last week about Nick Kristof's irresponsible call to cut Supplemental Security Income for severely disabled children. Since then Kristof has received an outpouring of criticism for the numerous ...

25. Real Poverty Really Did Rise During Recent Recession
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, social insurance, uemployment)

Casey Mulligan digs himself in deeper with a follow-up post on his argument that: 1) the expansion of social insurance programs in response to the recession was a big problem because it "erased" unemployed ...

26. CEPR News November 2012
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, inequality, unemployment, Haiti, unions, latin america, private equity, employment, marriage, Elections 2012, Fiscal Cliff, Hostess)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on the So-called “Fiscal Cliff” CEPR weighed in on the “Fiscal Cliff” debate, reminding everyone that – as ...

27. How to Get $500 Million: Play Powerball or Become a CEO
(Matching tags: Wall Street, inequality, corporate pay packages, CEOs)

Across the nation, lines are winding down streets and around corners as folks wait to buy a ticket for Powerball's $550 million dollar jackpot, the second-largest in U.S. history.  While that seems ...

28. Part-time Work Isn't Driving Inequality
(Matching tags: jobs, inequality)

... October 2012) than for men (13.5 percent), but what is most striking about the chart below is the trend over time in part-time work. Over the last three decades, as economic inequality has been climbing, ...

29. Daily Headlines - November 14, 2012
(Matching tags: cuba, inequality, latin america, middle class, women, ecuador)

Inequality is falling in Latin America as some 50 million people have risen to the middle class over the past 15 years according to a newly released World Bank report. The Guardian reports on the study, ...

30. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, October 27 – November 2, 2012
(Matching tags: health care, poverty, labor market, inequality, workers, paid family leave, education, medical leave, public policy)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past week: Center for American Progress The Many Benefits of Paid Family and Medical Leave Heather Boushey and Sarah Jane Glynn  ...

31. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, October 19 – 26, 2012
(Matching tags: labor market, inequality, unemployment)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past week: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality Chad Stone, Danilo ...

32. Daily Headlines – October 17, 2012
(Matching tags: inequality, education, ecuador, colombia, chile, chevron)

... is a relationship between moving away from the Washington Consensus and reducing inequality. Juan Montecino, using econometric techniques to look at the data, determined that left-of-center governments ...

33. The Poverty Rate is Higher than the Federal Government Says It Is
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, income, consumption)

... food insecurity). In this area, I find more plausible this new working paper by Jonathan Fisher, David Johnson, and Tim Smeeding, which finds that that both consumption inequality and income inequality ...

34. The Minimum Wage as an Anti-Inequality Policy
(Matching tags: inequality, minimum wage)

... of your list of causes.” But, I worry that much of the piece will give readers the wrong impression about the minimum wage as a policy to fight inequality. (1) That the minimum wage is not *at the ...

35. More Work, Less Income in 2011
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, inequality, Census, income)

Today's Census release on Health, Income, Poverty, and Inequality in 2011—what I like to call the annual HIPI report—was not particularly surprising. The best news was that the number of people without ...

36. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, August 27 – 31
(Matching tags: labor market, inequality, unions, wages, private equity, discrimination, public sector workers)

...  Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt, and Jae Eun Lee Economic Policy Institute Unions, Inequality, and Faltering Middle-Class Wages Lawrence Mishel National Employment Law Project Report: The ...

37. The NYT and the 'Disorganized Single-Mother' Meme
(Matching tags: poverty, media, children, inequality, working class, marriage)

I remember being struck several years ago by David Brooks' odd use of the adjective "disorganized" to describe single-parent families. As he put it in the New York Times in 2007: "A human capital agenda ...

38. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Inequality, Part 5
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, mobility, marriage)

According to NYT reporter Jason DeParle: “there are suggestions that the absence of a father in the house makes it harder for children to climb the economic ladder.” To support this proposition, he cites ...

39. Income-Related Inequalities in Health Care
(Matching tags: health care, poverty, inequality)

... Dean Baker have given the OECD a well-deserved thrashing for their analysis of the causes of income inequality, but this one, on a different subject, looks sound on initial viewing.)  The ...

40. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Family Income Inequality, Part 4 on DeParle's Marriage Plot
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, inequality, working class, low-wage workers, income, families)

The basic assumption undergirding Jason DeParle's piece is that changes in family structure have been one of the primary drivers of growth in family income inequality over the last several decades. What ...