Earnings/Wages/Pay

In this commentary, Stone Center faculty — Miles Corak, Janet Gornick, Paul Krugman, Leslie McCall, Branko Milanovic, and Salvatore Morelli — each with unique expertise in the study of inequality, offer insights on the COVID-19 crisis.

R. Iacono and M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 13. 2020.

P. Segal. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 12. 2020.

N. Lustig. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 08. 2020.

L. Yang, F. Novokmet, and B. Milanovic. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 06. 2020.

M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 05. 2020.

B. Mijatović and B. Milanovic. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 01. 2020.

In this spotlight on data, Leslie McCall considers whether adjusting for family size eliminates economic benefits for families headed by couples compared to those headed by single people.

In this spotlight on data, Leslie McCall discusses how marriage and cohabitation — relative to being single — affect where men and women fall along the income distribution.

In this blog post, Nishant Yonzan looks at three definitions of income and finds they all show significant drops in prosperity for the bottom 50 percent.