Since 1980, the defining fact of US labor markets has been rising inequality. In a new @PNASnews, @AeppliClem and I show that inequality has stopped rising for a decade (c.2012). But many of the drivers of rising inequality have persisted. What gives? https://t.co/2U2VDs0kSz

I’m hiring a postdoc! Flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone to collaborate with on research about labor market inequality. I’ll review applications as they come in and the posting just went up here: https://t.co/ZkXKVfsQCF

Its publication day!!

1/7 – New research from Shift finds that service sector workers can take advantage of strong labor market conditions to improve their job quality @DannyJSchneider @KristenHarknett @TyMWoods @Kennedy_School @HarvardMWC: https://t.co/S3Q8ZXoYj5

🚨 Important info for @ASAnews 2024 meeting in Montreal: Tomorrow (8/8) there will be a 1-day strike by workers at 30 hotels throughout the region represented by @laCSN. Some are conference hotels. The list is below. What should you do if your hotel is on the list? 1/

📢Announcing *new* monthly series of quits and layoffs reported by households! We see a notable sign of labor market softening: layoffs have risen steadily and significantly since January 2024. Do I have your attention #JOLTS and #jobsday fans? #econtwitter 🧵1/n

I am delighted that our article on competition law and comparative capitalism, co-authored with @thelenkathleen1, is now published in @cps_journal! This represents years of collaborative effort. I am thrilled to see it find a home in such a good journal. https://t.co/hrwb4NWm2b

Goodbye PhD. Hello academia 👨‍🎓📚 I have defended my dissertation at @DSPI_Oxford and will be joining @EdinburghUni as an Assistant Professor next month. I am grateful to everyone who supported me along the way and look forward to this new chapter!

📢New WP!📢 The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia, w/ Kyra Rodriguez Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

Congratulations to @natewilmers @MIT_IWER @MITSloan, who has been recognized for exceptional mentoring of graduate students:

Congratulations to @_elkelly @MIT_IWER @MITSloan, who has won the Ellen Galinsky Generative Researcher Award from the Work and Family Researchers Network! https://t.co/5AF85eAsra

New work with my talented former student Olivia Granström. We examine European variation in intergenerational occupational mobility and its place-based drivers. https://t.co/k76nq3TPu3

Notably, the original EPI report was in 2015 with data through 2014. In any of these series, the story looked quite different before we saw the years post 2014! Shoutout to @natewilmers who was ahead of the curve on this

Perhaps surprising to many: Wage inequality has declined across most countries since the start of the pandemic. Interesting @OECD_Social analysis on wages by @stescarpetta @stephancarcillo @andysalvatori @cazesSand et al. https://t.co/sHARqlXCD5

We spent 2/3 of the last 6 years and 1/2 of the last 8 years under 4% unemployment rate. This has *never* happened since the BLS started collecting unemployment data. We've never had 6, 7, or 8 year stretches with as many months under 4% unemployment rate as we do today.

🚨 New Working Paper! 🚨 Do labor market conditions affect the hiring discrimination of union supporters? Short answer: Yes they do. I find that discrimination is pro-cyclical and mainly observable among firms without a collective agreement. The paper: https://t.co/DEFk11FSjN

🚨🚨Do Americans accurately perceive union benefits? 🚨🚨 Our new paper (led by @JonneKamphorst) out this week @PNASNews finds: Americans significantly and systematically underestimate material benefits associated with union benefits. 🧵👇

Congratulations to these 23 @MIT faculty members-- including @natewilmers @MIT_IWER @MITSloan--honored for their #mentoring of graduate students:

Polarization is a rising issue. We worry about political sorting in social media and in real life. But what about at work? Is work a place where we are exposed to partisan diversity, or just another echo chamber? Read on for a 🧵about our working paper… https://t.co/cyhpEpQgae

New research from Rice Business and @MITSloan finds that U.S. voters hold opposing politicians to strict standards of #factuality but support their favorite politicians — as long as their statements express a “deeper truth." @minjaekim22 @ewzucker https://t.co/h0DgeCJ13L

An update of my prior WP, with newly FOIA-ed data on liquidated damages and hot goods violations! Key point: most firms underpaying the *federal minimum wage*, if caught by the DOL, are required to pay no more than the back wages owed. This creates little deterrent effect.