Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing rapidly and could reshape productivity, economic growth, jobs, and living standards. But AI gains are unlikely to be distributed evenly across countries. How ...

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As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms the workplace, which jobs will remain valuable—and what makes them resistant to automation? Economist Luis Garicano, coauthor of Messy Jobs: The Work that AI...

Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.

Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.

Sam Friedman & I just published an article on The Class Ceiling in the United States in Social Forces. You can access the article at Social Forces here and the preprint if you need it is here. The key...

Estate taxes are one segment of the federal tax code that can tax wealth, yet they used to be much stronger. TPC simulated the effects of different exemption levels to find out how the would affect cu...

Editorial: Devolution should finance transport, skills and industry, not become a rightwing contest to promise the largest tax giveaway

Abstract. If unions raise worker wages, who pays? We provide a comprehensive assessment of firm responses to increased unionization, using changes in the t

Abstract. We analyze the labor market impact of CVS Health’s acquisition of Target’s pharmacy business in December 2015 using Lightcast job postings data.

Join Centre for Cities for the launch a new report on the impact of minimum wage in different labour markets across the country.

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Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Anna Stansbury of MIT's Sloan School of Management and Kyra Rodriguez of UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business discuss their Stone Center working paper: “The Class Gap ...