Objective: We assess how the distribution of parents across firms contributes to parenthood wage gaps in a low-wage US labor market and…
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…
Comparing measures of work time in the recall CPS-ASEC data with contemporaneous measures reveals many logical inconsistencies and probable…
The article explores the ways in which pretrial incarceration affects job retention, job-seeking, and relative confidence or lack of…
Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socioeconomic…
While the concept of nontraditional, short-term, and contract work has been around since well before the digital age, it wasn’t until the…
High-cost financial services allow economically insecure families to make ends meet but often contribute to additional financial strain in…
Nationwide, 36 states and over 150 cities and counties have adopted what is widely known as “Ban the Box” (BtB). These policies require…
We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system. We first show that immigrants in Italy enroll…
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare existing inequalities in workplace exposure to health risks and economic insecurity. Policy action is…