improved respondents' ability to pay utility bills. We also find no effects on any labor supply measures. Analyses that examine …

How important is the exercise of classical monopsony power against labor for the level of wages and labor's share? We … novel screen to quantify how wages are affected by market power exerted in labor markets, either by a single firm or a group … of cooperating firms. The theory guides the measurement of labor "markdowns", i.e., the gap between wage and the value of …

The Poor People's Campaign (PPC) of 1968 was focused on highlighting, and ultimately reducing, poverty in the United …

Families in poverty face numerous barriers to establishing stable economic footing. This paper examines the effect of a … provider. Results indicate that the program improved labor market and housing outcomes two years after enrollment. Given the …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

search and matching theories of the labor market. Changes in inflow rates, related to demographics, accounted for Beveridge … relating unemployment and vacancies to inflation, the link between these labor market indicators and inflation depends on …

the labor market to explore how this uniquely American approach to financing health insurance contributes to labor market … would have been nearly 500,000 higher. These calibrated labor market effects of switching from head-tax to payroll …-tax financing are in the same ballpark as estimates of the impact of other leading drivers of labor market inequality, including …