1. Are the Job Polarization Data Robust?
(Matching tags: jobs, inequality, wages, technology)

... Mishel are doing on technology and wages, Dylan Matthews makes a lot of our interpretation of the following chart for the 1990s. The chart, which we prepared for a paper presented at a conference ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. Young, Educated and Jobless in America?
(Matching tags: economy, jobs, labor market, education, europe, wages, college, unionization)

Today's New York Times has a piece by Steven Erlanger on the "Young, Educated and Jobless in France" that gets most of the facts right, but still might leave its readers with the wrong idea about the real ...

5. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, November 17 – 30, 2012
(Matching tags: debt, jobs, retirement, labor market, paid family leave, environment, wages, deficit)

... Accounts Teresa Ghilarducci, Robert Hiltonsmith, Lauren Schmitz Retail’s Hidden Potential: How Raising Wages Would Benefit Workers, the Industry and the Overall Economy Catherine Ruetschlin  ...

6. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, September 8 – 14, 2012
(Matching tags: health, unemployment, wages, gender, middle class, uninsured)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past week: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Number of Uninsured Fell in 2011, Largely Due to Health Reform and Public Programs ...

7. (Employer Opposition to) Forming Unions in the United States and Canada
(Matching tags: labor market, unions, wages, worker rights)

My colleague John Schmitt provided an excellent overview of my recent paper about organized labor in the United States and Canada, “Protecting Fundamental Labor Rights: Lessons from Canada for the United ...

8. 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 ...

9. Obtaining a Contract after Unionization in the United States and Canada
(Matching tags: labor market, unions, wages, worker rights)

Last week, I highlighted what I see as one of the two key labor policy differences between the United States and Canada – the process by which unions are formed.  Today, I’d like to look at the other ...

10. People Living Below the Income Poverty Line Today are Better Educated than Ever
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, education, wages)

John Schmitt and Janelle Jones' Low Wage Workers Are Older and Better Educated than Ever, a CEPR report published in April, found that ... well, their title really says it all. The report got me interested ...