Employment/Work

James Parrott, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, provides an update on his 2020 presentation, showing long-term trends in wages, employment, and inequality in New York City, including during the pandemic, and demonstrating the importance of local public policy in reducing racial and economic inequality.

Paul Krugman leads a panel of experts who will discuss the current economy's high inflation and low unemployment, and the policies that can help the U.S. avoid a recession.

In this post, Stone Center Scholar Leslie McCall reflects on a recent panel, Building Political Alliances Across Race and Class, hosted by the Stone Center and the Graduate Center.

A panel discussion of how diverse coalitions across race and class can bring about much needed change to our political system, institutions, and social policies. Introduction by Leslie McCall.

A panel discussion of how diverse coalitions across race and class can bring about much needed change to our political system, institutions, and social policies.

More than 20 million workers quit their jobs in the second half of 2021. What is behind this trend? Paul Krugman leads a panel of experts in discussion.

In this post, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Alexander Hertel-Fernandez analyzes the history of the U.S. labor movement. The text was originally published as a book chapter in The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power.

J. Gornick and E. Sierminska. Journal of European Social Policy. vol. 31, no. 5. pp. 549–564. 2021.

In this interview, University of Chicago economist and Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Steven Durlauf discusses his working paper on the Great Gatsby Curve and how sociology has influenced his work on poverty, inequality, and economic growth.

In this interview, Harvard Kennedy School’s Gordon Hanson, who is a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses pandemic-related trade disruptions and some of his recent work.