contemporary incarnation of this displacement--labor market polarization, meaning the simultaneous growth of high-education, high …-wage and low-education, low-wages jobs--a manifestation of Polanyi's paradox. I discuss both the explanatory power of the …

Goldin and Katz's <i>The Race between Education and Technology</i> is a monumental achievement that supplies a unified …

We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of … suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy to address both. We find that the minimum wage reduces inequality …

are related to labor market success, including race, gender, parental background, education, test scores, and variables … widened. Changes in parental education seem to generate many of the observed changes …

productivity of new workers, they may choose to use easily observable characteristics such as years of education to 'statistically … productivity and the interaction between experience and a variable that firms can easily observe, such as years of education. We … wage coefficient on education should fall. We investigate this proposition using panel data on education, the AFQT test …