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Oklahoma State Question 832
A Tough Test for the Minimum Wage on the Ballot
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When 30 States Raised Minimum Wages, What Happened to Pay and Jobs?
The Secret Sauce of Swedish Equality
It's the Paycheck, Not the Tax Code
Inflation inequality meets wage compression
Did unequal inflation undo the post-pandemic wage compression?
Mike Konczal Discussing the Wage Standard with Arin Dube
A recording from Arin Dube and Mike Konczal's live video
There has been essentially no real wage growth under Trump 2.0
Two months of high inflation has wiped out real wage gains
These Republican-leaning States Went Big on Minimum Wages.
Here’s What Happened to their Restaurant and Retail Jobs.
The Wage Compression that Persisted
A few of years back, David Autor, Annie McGrew and I discovered something out of character for the modern U.S.
Competition and Concentration Are Not the Same
We want more competition, and sometimes that may entail more concentration
Real Wage Growth: The Post-Pandemic Labor Market and Beyond
Are wages still growing? And what about wage compression?
A new database, quantifying the minimum wage effect on jobs
What is the Own-Wage Elasticity (OWE)?
How a tight labor market helped narrow the racial divide
The journey towards racial equity in the labor market has been long and complex, with the civil rights movement of the 1960s marking a pivotal moment of promise for greater equity.
Wage growth, inflation, and inequality
Using within-person wage comparisons to measure wage growth