Employment/Work

Experts look ahead at how artificial intelligence may affect jobs, the workplace, and the economy.

Part II of Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman’s series “Understanding Inequality,” which originally appeared on his Substack newsletter.

S. Bernhard, S. Bohmann, S. Fiedler, M. Kasy, J. Schupp, and F. Schwerter. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 109. 2025.

G. H. Hanson and E Moretti. Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Working Paper Series. no. 103. 2025.

D. Autor, D. Dorn, G. H. Hanson, M. R. Jones, and B. Setzler. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 101. 2025.

Sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield delivers the closing lecture at the Stone Center's annual "Inequality by the Numbers" workshop.

Meredith Slopen, a Stone Center postdoctoral scholar, discusses her project on how older workers benefit from paid family leave and paid sick leave policies, for which she recently received a fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Retirement and Disability Research Center and the Institute for Research on Poverty.

M. Slopen. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 100. 2025.

Suresh Naidu, a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar and a professor of economics and international and public affairs at Columbia University, discusses who is currently benefiting the most from the union premium, the data challenges in historical research on unions and how he overcame them, and the significant barriers U.S. workers still face in forming a union.

M. Slopen. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 2024.