This article examines the conceptual, measurement, and regulatory challenges of promoting decent work for domestic workers. After a brief…
I published The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks
and Changing American Institutions thirty-two years
ago, in 1978. Given the furor…
Researchers have long known that poverty in childhood is linked with a range of negative adult socioeconomic outcomes, from lower…
This article argues that the United States of America is quite different from other OECD countries in its religiosity (America is much more…
Book abstract: This collection assembles some of the country’s foremost social scientists in one volume. It contains diverse investigations…
High U.S. incarceration rates have motivated recent research on the negative effects of imprisonment on later employment, earnings, and…
The nation is plagued with one of the highest unemployment rates since the Great Depression. Not only have rates of joblessness risen…
Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a panel of 12 developed…
Young people who grow up in high-poverty urban neighborhoods experience crime and violence, resource-poor schools, restricted labor markets…