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Economics

  • If you don’t like your job, can you always quit?: Pervasive monopsony power and freedom in the labor market

    July 26, 2022 By Suresh Naidu and Michael Carr
  • Worker mobility in practice: Is quitting a right, or a luxury?

    May 12, 2022 By Kathryn Anne Edwards
  • Understanding black-white disparities in labor market outcomes requires models that account for persistent discrimination and unequal bargaining power

    March 25, 2022 By Valerie Wilson and William Darity Jr.
  • Codetermination and power in the workplace

    March 23, 2022 By Simon Jäger, Shakked Noy, and Benjamin Schoefer
  • The great reversal: The story of how an influential international organization changed its view on employment security, labor market flexibility, and collective bargaining

    February 11, 2022 By John Evans and William E. Spriggs
  • The legal ‘freedom of contract’ framework is flawed because it ignores the persistent absence of full employment

    February 3, 2022 By Lawrence Mishel
  • Identifying the policy levers generating wage suppression and wage inequality

    May 13, 2021 By Lawrence Mishel and Josh Bivens Report
  • Risk without reward: The myth of wage compensation for hazardous work

    April 19, 2021 By Peter Dorman and Les Boden
  • Gender inequality and bargaining in the U.S. labor market: Why care work is undervalued

    March 10, 2021 By Nancy Folbre: Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst Report

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