Since the 1970s, market restructuring has shifted many workers into workplaces heavily reliant
on sales to outside corporate buyers. These outside buyers wield substantial power over …

What explains pay inequality among coworkers? Theories of organizational influence on
inequality emphasize the effects of formal hierarchy. But restructuring, firm flattening, and …

The two main axes of inequality in the US labor market—occupation and workplace—have
increasingly consolidated. In 1999, the largest share of employment at high-paying …

Employers often recruit workers by invoking corporate social responsibility, organizational
purpose, or other claims to a prosocial mission. In an era of substantial labor market inequality…

This article examines tenant exploitation and landlord profit margins within residential rental
markets. Defining exploitation as being overcharged relative to the market value of a …

US earnings inequality has not increased in the last decade. This marks the first sustained
reversal of rising earnings inequality since 1980. We document this shift across eight data …

This article considers the effects on the wage structure of the US economy’s growing reliance
on demand from high-income consumers. Relative to the mass consumers that defined the …

Amid the long decline of US unions, research on union wage effects has struggled with
selection problems and inadequate theory. I draw on the sociology of labor to argue that unions …

The post–World War II period of wage compression provides a strong contrast to the last forty
years of rising inequality. In this article, I argue that inequality was previously constrained …

When employers conduct more internal hiring, does this facilitate upward mobility for low-paid
workers or does it protect the already advantaged? To assess the effect of within-employer …