Employment/Work

A panel discussion of how diverse coalitions across race and class can bring about much needed change to our political system, institutions, and social policies.

More than 20 million workers quit their jobs in the second half of 2021. What is behind this trend? Paul Krugman leads a panel of experts in discussion.

In this post, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Alexander Hertel-Fernandez analyzes the history of the U.S. labor movement. The text was originally published as a book chapter in The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power.

J. Gornick and E. Sierminska. Journal of European Social Policy. vol. 31, no. 5. pp. 549–564. 2021.

In this interview, University of Chicago economist and Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Steven Durlauf discusses his working paper on the Great Gatsby Curve and how sociology has influenced his work on poverty, inequality, and economic growth.

In this interview, Harvard Kennedy School’s Gordon Hanson, who is a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses pandemic-related trade disruptions and some of his recent work.

In this interview, Branko Milanovic discusses what the writings of four classical economists reveal about their perceptions of income inequality.

In this interview, Bilyana Petrova and Marco Ranaldi discuss what they learned at the Stone Center and the new positions they will be starting this fall.

In this commentary, Nancy Folbre, director of the Program on Gender and Care Work at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses the unequal impact of remote work on women.

B. Mijatović and B. Milanovic. The Economic History Review. vol. 74, no. 2. pp. 424–448. 2021.