Labor

Growing consolidation in localized hospital markets appears to restrict nurse wage growth

Increased hospital system consolidation in small Metropolitan Statistical Areas is adversely related to nurse wage growth.

Setting the record straight and identifying less destructive pathways forward than round after round of interest rate increases.

Salaries in the U.S. aren’t keeping up with inflation, despite pandemic-related increases in some sectors. That’s a major threat to the future for all working Americans – especially the youngest.

EEO-1 employment data document the vast over-representation of Asian Americans and vast under-representation of African Americans at tech companies in recent years. How did this happen?

EEO-1 employment data document the vast over-representation of Asian Americans and vast under-representation of African Americans at tech companies in recent years. How did this happen?

The youth paradox is accentuated by the effects of Covid-19, while the concrete short- and medium-term prospects for young people remain unclear.

In the era of COVID and digital movements, strikes look radically different from traditional labor strikes

Canadian economist Mario Seccareccia, recipient of this year’s John Kenneth Galbraith Prize in Economics, says it’s time to reconsider the idea of full employment. He spoke to Lynn Parramore of the Institute for New Economic Thinking about why 2021 offers a rare opportunity to rebalance the economy in favor of Main Street.

How once-promising Black upward mobility reversed course, and what can be done about it

Unlike the Great Recession, the pandemic has hit women workers harder than men, and disproportionately hurt the job prospects of lower education workers.

Unlike the Great Recession, the pandemic has hit women workers harder than men, and disproportionately hurt the job prospects of lower education workers

Like Republicans with political polls, unemployed Black workers are underrepresented in federal employment data because of non-response.

A large and growing percentage of households are missed in the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS).

How the dream of a middle class existence collapsed, first for Blacks, then for more and more white American workers and what the Biden administration could do to retrieve the situation.