Provides an overview of more than 25 careers that have been identified by the U.S. Department of Labor as offering the highest pay, fastest employment growth, and most new jobs through 2018. Each article provides an overview of job duties, educational requirements, interviews with workers in the...

Using data from the 2000 U.S. Census, we document and explore three alternative explanations for the sexual orientation wage gap: occupational sorting, human capital differences, and discrimination. We find lesbian women earn more than their heterosexual counterparts irrespective of marital...