Is US wage growth on target?
How’s U.S. wage growth doing these days? According to the January data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, average nominal wage growth for all U.S. workers grew at a 2.5 percent cli...
Nick Bunker is a Policy Research Associate with the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
How’s U.S. wage growth doing these days? According to the January data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, average nominal wage growth for all U.S. workers grew at a 2.5 percent cli...
Recessions, despite the hopes of economists and policymakers during the Great Moderation, are still very much a part of our economic reality. But as this June will mark seven years since ...
The gender wage gap in the United States has been “been intensively investigated for a number of decades, but also remains an area of active and innovative research.” So starts a new work...
Over the past year or so, economists have been paying more attention to the role of housing in economic inequality in the United States. Many have pointed to the value of housing as the p...
It’s been a few months since we last checked in on the Phillips curve, or the relationship between unemployment and inflation. The curve has been the center of many debates over the cours...
Discussion of the minimum wage—at least in the empirical literature about it—often focuses on what happens to affected workers. The vast research on minimum-wage hikes mostly focuses on t...