American poverty research largely neglects labor unions. The authors use individual-level
panel data, incorporate both household union membership and state-level union density, and …

Over the past 60 years, we have witnessed a relocation of gender wage inequality. Whereas
the largest wage gaps were once concentrated among lower-paid, lower-educated workers, …

How do right to work laws affect the distribution of economic resources? While sociological
theories would predict inequality to increase following their passage, previous research finds …

The decline of labor unions in the United States has been central to the rise of wage inequality
since the early 1970s. Recently, sociologists have noted that unionization influences …

Fields of study are a persistent source of inequality among college graduates in the US, but
surprisingly few studies have investigated factors that predict earnings within these fields. In …

Labor historians describe Right to Work (RTW) as among the most consequential pushbacks
against the early twentieth-century ascent of labor unions. Yet research on the economic …

This study assesses the causes of within-group inequality, or the inequality occurring among
workers and households otherwise similar on observed characteristics. The author situates …

Studies on labor union earnings premiums generally investigate their size through point-in-time
estimates. This study posits, by contrast, that point-in-time estimates of the union …

Although science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors remain male
dominated, women’s greater enrollment in STEM is one of the greatest transformations to …

This research examines public views on government responsibility to reduce income inequality,
support for redistribution. While individual-level correlates of support for redistribution …