"It seems very likely that a lot of companies will be rethinking this longer-term and outsourcing those kinds of jobs that didn’t used to be."
Now, it's less about threats and more about the trade-offs between people and profits.
"Being a member of a union that bargains over your compensation enables you to share to some extent more in the profits of your firm."
New analysis shows that the elite dominate even more among the top schools that produce about half of all future economics professors.
"Economics has another diversity problem that's been largely overlooked: socioeconomic background."
"It's pretty well known ... that economics has a race and gender problem, and that's something we've finally been trying to address as a field."
"Economics' lack of socioeconomic diversity matters for the quality of the professions' output, but also its policy impact."
[Assistant Prof.] Anna Stansbury's research focuses on topics in labor and macroeconomics ...
"For occupations with limited occupational mobility … we find that employer concentration matters a lot for wages."
“We think of worker power as basically where the balance of power lies in the employment relationship between the employee and the worker."
