Labor/Inequality Readings

 

Inequality   US      World  data	Labor market	Globalization / offshoring
Inequality data	Income / earnings data	Discrimination

Labor market data analysis

1. Charting the US Labor Market in 2006

2. Employment Outlook 2006-2016

   1. Figueroa, Eric B., Woods, Rose A., "Industry Output and Employment Projections to 2016," Monthly Labor Review, November 2007, pp. 80-105.

3. BLS Projections to 2014

   1. Norma Saunders, "A summary of BLS projections to 2014," Monthly Labor Review Nov 2005

   2. Betty W. Su, The U.S. economy to 2014 Abstract | Excerpt | Full text in PDF (114K)
   3. Mitra Toossi, Labor force projections to 2014: retiring boomers Abstract | Excerpt | Full text in PDF (134K)
   4. Jay M. Berman, Industry output and employment projections to 2014 Abstract | Excerpt | Full text in PDF (152K)
   5. Daniel E. Hecker, Occupational employment projections to 2014 Abstract | Excerpt | Full text in PDF (205K)

4. Sharon Cohany & Amy Sok, "Trends in labor force participation of married mothers of infants," Monthly Labor Review February 2007

5. DiCecio et al, Changing trends in the labor force: A survey," StL Fed Reserve J/F 2008

6. Chinhui Juhn & Simon Potter, "Changes in labor force participation in the United States," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2006 (online reserves)

7. Abraham Mosisa and Steven Hipple,  "Trends in labor force participation in the United States" Monthly Labor Review October 2006

8. H. O. Stekler & Rupin Thomas, "Evaluating BLS labor force, employment, and occupational projections for 2000, Monthly Labor Review July 2005

9. Mitra Toossi, A new look at long-term labor force projections to 2050, Monthly Labor Review Nov 2006

10. Christopher Wheeler, "Trends in neighborhood-level unemployment in the US: 1980-2000," Review, Fed Reserve Bank of St. Louis,  J/F 2008

11. Ian Wyatt & Daniel Hecker, "Occupational Changes during the 20th century," Monthly Labor Review March 2006

Inequality

Inequality: World

• Robert Barro, "Determinants of democracy," Journal of Political Economy 1999
• Surjit Bhalla,“Imagine There Is No Country: Poverty, Inequality and Growth in the Era of Globalisation” Institute for International Economics;

• Birdsall, Nancy and Juan Luis Londono. "Asset inequality matters: An assessment of the World Bank's approach to poverty reduction."  AER May 1997

• Francois Bourguignon and Christian Morrison, “Inequality Among World Citizens: 1820-1992”  American Economic Review 92 (4).
• Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion,  “How Well Did the World's Poorest Fare in the 1990s?”  Review of Income and Wealth 47
• Comparative Numbers
• Angus Deaton, “Measuring Poverty in a Growing World (or Measuring Growth in a Poor World)”, revised February 2004
• Global inequality
• Mark Hertsgaard, "Our Real China problem," The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Nov 1997
• Charles Jones, "On the evolution of the world income distribution." Journal of Economic Perspectives. Summer 1997
• Alan B. Krueger ; Jitka Maleková,  Education, Poverty and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection? The Journal of Economic Perspectives  Volume: 17 Number: 4 Page: 119 -- 144
• Paul Krugman, "Feeling no pain,"  New York Times March 6, 2006
• Branko Milanovic, WORLDS APART: INTER-NATIONAL AND WORLD INEQUALITY 1950-2000, Brookings
• "More or less equal?," The Economist 3/13/2004
• Norimitsu Onishi, "Revival in Japan brings widening of economic gap,"  New York Times April 16, 2006
• PBS digital divide web site
• Steven Pressman, "The decline of the middle class: An international perspective," Journal or Economic Issues March 2007

• "Rich Man, Poor Man,"  The Economist 9/25/2003

• "Rich Man, Poor Man,"  The Economist 1/20/2007

• Haider Rizvi, "Globalization driving inequality," 12/8/2005
• Xavier Sala-i-Martin, “The World Distribution of Income” NBER Working Paper 8933
• "The mountain man and the surgeon," The Economist 12/24/2005
• University of Texas Inequality Project
• UN "The world social system: the inequality predicament," 2005
• U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census The Census Bureau provides current and historical data on income and poverty.
• World Bank, "Inequality Data" At this web site, the World Bank maintains a set of links to sources of data and statistics on income inequality across countries. 

• World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty

• World Bank Human Development Report 2001 Attacking Human Poverty,"

• World Bank, "Deepening democracy in a fragmented world," Human Development Report 2002

• World Bank, 2006 World Development Report - Equity and Development.

• World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty. 

• Daron Acemoglu, "Technical Change, Inequality, and the labor market," Journal of Economic Perspectives, March 2002
• David H. Autor, Frank Levy, and Richard J. Murnane, "Upstairs, Downstairs," Regional Review 2002:2
• Autor, Katz & Kearney, "The polarization of the US labor market," AER May 2006
• Jared Bernstein, Lawrence Mishel, and Chauna Brocht, "Any way you cut it: Income inequality on the rise regardless of how it’s measured."  Economic Policy Institute Briefing Paper
• Barry Bluestone, "The Polarization of American Society: Victims, Suspects, and Mysteries to Unravel,"  Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1995
• Ray Boshara, "The $6,000 Solution," The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2003
• Samuel Bowles, Herbery Gintis, & Melissa Osborne, "The determinants of earnings: A behavioral approach," Journal of Economic Literature Dec 2001
• Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis, "The Inheritance of Inequality," Journal of Economic Perspectives Summer 2002
• Stephanie Boras and William M. Rodgers III, "How does gender play a role in the earnings gap? an update," Monthly Labor Review March 2003
• Katharine L. Bradbury, Education and Wages in the 1980s and 1990s: Are All Groups Moving Up Together?,
• David Brooks, "One Nation, Slightly Divisible," The Atlantic Monthly, 9/1/2003
• David Brooks, "The American way of inequality," The Atlantic Monthly, 9/1/2003
• David Brooks, "The sticky ladder,"  New York Times 1/25/2005
• David Brooks, "Age of Political segregation,"  New York Times 6/29/2004
• Christopher Caldwell, "Affirmative Distraction," NYT Dec 24, 2006
• Douglas Clement, Accounting for the Rich Minn Fed Region June 2003
• Douglas Clement, "Beyond “Rich” and “Poor” Minn Fed Region June 2003

• Carrie Conaway, Doing Well by Doing Time? Taxes, not culture, account for the difference, according to economist

• Richard Coniff, "The rich are more oblivious than you or me," NYT April 4, 2007

• "Death and taxes: gilding the elite," The Economist June 10, 2006
• Dion Dennis, "The digital death rattle of the American middle class," Ctheory.net 11/18/2003
• Daly & Valletta, Earnings Inequality and Earnings Mobility in the U.S.,  2003-28, September 26 SF Economic Letter
• "Death and taxes: gilding the elite," the economist, June 10, 2006
• Javier Díaz-Giménez, Vincenzo Quadrini, and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull, Dimensions of Inequality: Facts on the U.S. Distributions of Earnings, Income, and Wealth, Quarterly Review, Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, Spring 1997
• Eric Eckholm, "plight deepens for black men, studies warn,"  New York Times 3/20/2006
• Zvi Eckstein & Eva Nagypal, "The evolution of US earnings inequality: 1961-2002*," Quarterly Review MINN 
• Zvi Eckstein & Eva Nagypal, "The evolution of US earnings inequality," FRB Minn Quaterly Review, December 2004
• Barbara Ehrenreich, "Nickel-and-Dimed: On not getting by in America,"  Harpers January 1999
• "Ever higher society, ever harder to ascend," The Economist 1/1/2005
• Geraldine Fabricant, "Old Nantucket Warily Meets the New,"  New York Times June 5, 2005
• Joseph Ferrie, "The end of American exceptionalism? Mobility in the US since 1850." JEP Summer 2005
• Fortin, Nicole M. and Thomas Lemieux "Institutional changes and rising wage inequality: is there a linkage?" Journal of Economic Perspectives. Spring 1997
• Thomas Frank, "Lie down for America: How the Republican Party sows ruin on the great plains," Harpers April 2004

• William H. Frey and Dowell Myers' "Neighborhood Segregation in Single-Race and Multirace America: A Census 2000 Study of Cities and Metropolitan Areas". Fannie Mae 2000

• "Fun for the masses," The Economist 8/2/1997  adds leisure

• John Taylor Gatto, "Against School," Harpers September 2003

• Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility in America, Brookings Institute, 2008

• Gottschalk, Peter. "Inequality, income growth, and mobility: The basic facts." Journal of Economic Perspectives. Spring 1997

• Steven Greenhouse & David Leonhardt, "Real wages failed to match a rise in productivity," NYT August 28, 2006

• Greenstein and Shapiro, "The new, definitive CBO data on income and tax trends," Center on budget and policy priorities, September 23, 2003

• Elizabeth Gudrais, "Unequal America," Harvard magazine, J/A 2008

• Bob Herbert, "A story of struggle and hope," NYT 11/16/2006 - eyes on the prize documentary

• Bob Herbert, "The danger zone," NYT March 15, 2007 - black data

• Bob Herbert, "The mobility myth,"  New York Times 6/6/2005

• Bob Herbert, "Working harder for the man," NYT Jan 8 2007

• Hilary Hoynes..., "Poverty in America: Trends and Explanations," JEP Winter 2006

• Income Gaps Between High and Low-Income Families Widened in 46 States Since the Late 1970s, Economic Policy Institute, January 18,2000

• In the money: A special report on executive pay," The Economist, Jan 20, 2007

• Elizabeth Jensen, "The Real World: Prestonburg, KY,"  New York Times 1/1/2006 

• George Johnson, "Changes in earnings inequality: The role of demand shifts" Journal of Economic Perspectives. Spring 1997

• David S. Johnson, Timothy M. Smeeding, and Barbara Boyle Torrey, "Economic inequality through the prisms of income and consumption," Monthly Labor Review April 200

• David Johnson, Smeeding & Torrey, "Economic inequality through the prisms of income and consumption," Monthly Labor Review April 2005

• David Cay Johnson, "Corporate wealth share rises for top-income Americans,"  New York Times 1/29/2006

• David Cay Johnson, "Income gap is widening, data shows"  New York Times 3/29/2007

• David cay Johnston, "richest are leaving even the rich behind,"  New York Times June 5, 2003

• David Cay Johnston, "The very richest's share of income grew even bigger, data show,"  New York Times June 26, 2003

• Jorgenson, Dale W. "Did we lose the war on poverty?" Journal of Economic Perspectives Winter 1998

• Daly & Valetta, "Earnings inequality and earnings mobility in the US," FRBSF 9,26 2003

• David Kamp, "Male like me,"  New York Times 1/22/2006

• Arthur B. Kennickell,  A Rolling Tide: Changes in the Distribution of Wealth in the U.S., 1989-2001, Federal Reserve Board - Department of Research & Statistics, Date posted to database: August 11, 2003

• Walter Kirn, "Way upstairs, downstairs,"  New York Times 4/16/2006

• Paul Krugman, "A new civil rights movement,"  New York Times 12/26/2005

• Paul Krugman, "Distract and disenfranchise," NYT April 2, 2007

• Paul Krugman, "Gilded once more," NYT April 27, 2007

• Paul Krugman, "Graduates versus oligarchs," NYT February 27, 2006

• Paul Krugman, "Graduates versus oligarch,"  New York Times 2/27/2006

• Paul Krugman, "Helping the poor, the British way," NYT December 25, 2006

• Paul Krugman, "Left behind economics,"  New York Times July 14, 2006

• Paul Krugman, Letter to the secretary,"  New York Times March 24, 2006

• Paul Krugman, "Shameless in the Senate,"  New York Times June 5, 2006

• Paul Krugman, "The big disconnect," NYT Sept 1, 2006

• David Leonhardt, "The College Dropout Boom,"  New York Times May 24, 2005
• Paul Krugman's "The End of Middle-Class America-and the Triumph of the Plutocrats," October 20, 2002  and "In Defense of the Boom," October 27, 2002

• Paul Krugman, "Wages, wealth and politics," NYT August 18, 2006

• Thomas Lemieux, "Postsecondary education and increasing wage inequality," AER May 2006

• Michael Lind, "Are we still a middle-class nation," The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2004

• Edna Lonigan, "The effect of modern technological conditions upon the employment of labor," AER June 1939

• "Look for the union label," Harpers October 2004

• William J. McDonough, "Forward to Unequal Incomes, Unequal Outcomes? Economic Inequality and Measures of Well-Being," Federal Reserve Bank of New York,  Economic Policy Review" September 1999

• Poverty in the United States: 2002. 
• "Minding about the gap," The Economist June 11, 2005
• Annie Murphy Paul, " The real marriage penalty," NYT 11/19/2006
• Christopher Phelan, Inequality and Fairness,   PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]  [Abstract available on-line], Spring 2002  (Vol. 26 No. 2)
• Point/Counterpoint: How Much of the Gender Wage Gap is Due to Discrimination?  The Regional Economist, St. Louis Fed, April 2001  
• Thomas Piketty & Emmanuel Saez, "The evolution of top income: A historical and international perspective," AER May 2006
• Matthew Power, "The magic mountain: trickle doen economics in a Philippine garbage dump," Harpers Dec 2006

• Ed Prescott, European Vacation: Why Americans Work More Than Europeans

• "Priceless: A survey of water," The Economist 7/19/2003
  "Recent Changes in U.S. Family Finances: Results from the 1998 Survey of Consumer Finances" Federal Reserve Bulletin  Jan. 2000

• Reaching the Top: Challenges and Opportunities for Women Leaders, a conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on March 3, 2004.

• Frank Rich, "bring back Warren Harding," the New York Times September 25, 2005

• Santiago Budría Rodríguez, Javier Díaz-Giménez, Vincenzo Quadrini, and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull,, "Updated Facts on the U.S. Distributions of Earnings, Income, and Wealth," Minn Fed Quarterly Review Summer 2002

• Eric Schlosser, "The prison--industrial complex," The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Dec 1998;

• Isaac Shapiro & Robert Greenstein,  "The Widening Income Gulf" (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Sept. 4, 1999)

• Natasha Singer, "More doctors turning to teh business of beauty," NYT Nov 30, 2006

• Thomas Smeeding, "Poor people in rich nations: The United States in Comparative Perspective," JEP Winter 2006

•  Gary Solon, "Cross-country differences in intergenerational earnings mobility," JEP Summer 2002

• "The changing shape of the Nation's income distribution: 1947-1998,"  US Census Bureau June 2000

• "The estate tax back on the agenda,"  New York Times June 6, 2006

• "The missing rungs in the ladder," The Economist July 16, 2005

• The household balance sheet—Too much debt? (Special Issue) , Sept 2002 No. 181a"The New Americans," The Economist 3/11/2000

• Thorsten Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class

• Topel, Robert H. "Factor proportions and relative wages: The supply-side determinants of wage inequality" Journal of Economic Perspectives. Spring 1997

• Bharat Trehan, "Technical change and the dispersion of wages," FRBSF Aug 9, 2002

• Teresa Tritch, "The rise of the super rich,"  New York Times July 19, 2006

• The Gender Wage Cap and Wage Discrimination: Illusion or Reality?

• "The rich, the poor and the growing gap between, the economist June 17th 2006

• Triest, Robert K. "Has poverty gotten worse?" Journal of Economic Perspectives. Winter 1998

• Louis Uchitelle, "Two tiers, slipping into one,"  New York Times 2/26, 2006

• Louis Uchitelle, "Lure of great wealth affects career choices,"  New York Times 11/27/2006

• Valletta & MacDonald, Is There a Digital Divide? FRBSF Letter 2003-38, December 26

• Waldfogel, Jane. "Understanding the 'family gap' in pay for women with children." Journal of Economic Perspectives. Winter 1998

• Howard Wall, "The Gender Wage Cap and Wage Discrimination: Illusion or Reality?" Regional Economist October 2000

• Howard Wall & Alyson Reed, "Point/Counterpoint: How Much of the Gender Wage Gap is Due to Discrimination?  The Regional Economist, St. Louis Fed, April 2001  

• Miriam Wasserman, "Geography of Life's chances, Regional review Q4 2001

• The State of Working America

• Stuart Weiner & Stephen Monto, "Income Inequality: A Summary of The Bank's 1998 Symposium," KCFED Economic Review 1998:IV

• "What is poverty and who are the poor? Redefinition for the United States in the 1990s" AER May 1998

• Christopher Wheeler, "Evidence of wage inequality, worker education, and technology," STL Economic Review May/June 2005

• Christopher Wheeler, "Wage Gap Widens, Especially in Cities," The Regional Economist January 2005

• "When the Joneses can't keep up," NYT Dec 1, 2006

• Wolff, Edward. "Recent trends in the size distribution of household wealth." Journal of Economic Perspectives. Summer 1998

• Edward N. Wolff, "Changes in Household Wealth in the 1980s and 1990s in the U.S.," Jerome Levy Economics Institute, May, 2004

• "Would you like your class war shaken or stirred, sir?," The Economist September 6, 2003

• Janet Yellen, "Economic Inequality in the United States," FRBSF Dec 1, 2006