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- Figure 1.
Growth of GDP and Market Incomes of Working-Age Adults, 1962–2014
Source: Authors’ compilation.
Note: GDP per head in constant dollars from OECD.stat (extracted April 3, 2018); market incomes for working-age (twenty to sixty-four) individuals from Piketty, Saez, and Zucman 2018 (appendix II, update November 2017, tables II: B7, B8, B10).
- Figure 2.
Incidence of Low Pay in the United States, 1979–2017: Two Perspectives
Source: Howell 2019.
Note: The poverty-wage threshold is the conventional low-wage cutoff: two-thirds of the median wage for full-time workers. The decent-wage threshold is defined as two-thirds of the mean wage for full-time prime-age workers. Lower tier decent wage jobs are those that pay up to 50 percent above the decent job threshold. Employment shares report the share of employed workers (eighteen to sixty-four) with wages within each contour or segment wage range. The data are from the merged outgoing rotation groups (MORGs) from the Current Population Surveys (CPS) for 1979 to 2017, accessed from the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
- Figure 3.
Structure of American Wage Quality Circa 2017
Source: Authors’ compilation.
Note: The poverty-wage threshold is the conventional low-wage cutoff: two-thirds of the median wage for full-time workers. The decent-wage threshold is defined as two-thirds of the mean wage for full-time prime-age workers. Lower-tier decent-wage jobs are those that pay up to 50 percent above the decent-job threshold. Employment shares report the share of employed workers (eighteen to sixty-four) with wages within each contour or segment wage range. The data are from the merged outgoing rotation groups (MORGs) from the Current Population Surveys (CPS) for 1979 to 2017, accessed from the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
- Figure 4.
Decent Job Rates, Median Wages, and Employment Rates for Young Workers Without a College Degree, 1979–2017
Source: Howell 2019.
Note: Young is ages eighteen to thirty-four. Amounts in 2017 dollars.
- Figure 5.
Nonstandard Work Arrangements in the United States
Source: Authors’ compilation based on analyses of 1995, 2005, and 2017 Current Population Surveys’ Contingent Work Supplements.
- Figure 6.
Markets, Institutions, and Bargaining Power: Three Visions of Labor Market Regulation and Performance
Source: Authors’ adaptation of Robert Boyer’s diagram (Boyer 2006, figure 1).
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