Earnings/Wages/Pay

Meredith Slopen, a Stone Center postdoctoral scholar, recently testified in Albany about why New York State should expand its paid family leave policy. Her research focuses on ways that workplace polices can reduce inequality throughout the life course.

In this interview, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Guido Alfani talks about how the position of the rich in Western society has changed over the centuries, and the implications for the present and future.

G. Hanson. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 73. 2023.

K. Doorley, J. Gromadzki, P. Lewandowski, D. Tuda, and P. Van Kerm. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 72. 2023.

In this interview, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Nancy Folbre discusses her recent study, which looks at why care services providers have relatively low pay compared to workers in business services with equivalent levels of education.

M. Kasy. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 65. 2023.

James Parrott, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, provides an update on his 2020 presentation, showing long-term trends in wages, employment, and inequality in New York City, including during the pandemic, and demonstrating the importance of local public policy in reducing racial and economic inequality.

L. Yang, B. Milanovic, and Y. Lin. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 64. 2023.

L. Monroy-Gómez-Franco, R. Vélez-Grajales, and G. Yalonetzky. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 61. 2023.

In this post, Janet Gornick and Branko Milanovic discuss the results of their study, "In Search of the Roots of American Inequality Exceptionalism: An Analysis Based on Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Data,” an examination of what underlies the high level of income inequality in the U.S.