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…
While more than half of 18-to-25-year-olds in the service sector left their jobs during the pandemic, the overwhelming majority did so to…
The article explores the ways in which pretrial incarceration affects job retention, job-seeking, and relative confidence or lack of…
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…
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the governments of most countries ordered the closure of schools, potentially exacerbating existing…
Nearly a thousand officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This paper documents the large, racially-disparate…