Labor

What counts as work and what doesn’t?

States can be sorted into two groups with statistically significantly different productivity regimes. In this sense, the US economy shows signs of dualism—which is the idea that the economy consists of heterogeneous units that exhibit different behaviors and levels of performance.

This paper analyzes regional contributions to the US payroll share from 1977 to 2017 and the four major business cycles throughout this period.

Just before the crisis, European countries were designing austerity reforms that would increase inequality and reduce internal demand. Could they return?

Establishing legal responsibility in the fissured workplace

This article proposes a new “Concentric Circle framework” which would improve workers’ access to civil, labor, and employment rights.

What will empower a worker to be able to make greater demands on a profitable economy or employer? The answer may be summed up in one word: leverage.

The U.S. economy is increasingly becoming a dual economy, where high productivity sectors—such as manufacturing—and high pay sectors—such as finance and professional services—co-exist with low pay and low productivity sectors that employ most workers.

This paper provides novel insights on the changing functional distribution of income in the post–war US economy.

Artificial intelligence promises to make our lives easier. But is the cost losing some of our humanity?

Economist Marie Mora discusses the deep economic crisis that has afflicted Puerto Rico for years

With journalism moving from a stable to a precarious profession, digital media workers have become some of the most organized in the startup world

Artificial intelligence doesn’t have to be a job killer—if we use it right

One of America’s leading socialists discusses how a collectively owned economy would be structured, the limits of the welfare state, and what Keynes understood that Marx didn’t

When workers are classified as independent contractors instead of employees, they fall into a hole not covered by many labor protections