Does the Minimum Wage Reduce Between- and Within-Group Inequality?

The minimum wage has been introduced and expanded in many countries to lift the wages of the lowest paid workers.

French Women in the Workforce and World War I—A Watershed Moment or a Parenthesis?

During World War I, 8 million French men were drafted, and 1.3 million of them died in combat. As a

In 2008, Sweden introduced a new “activation” program, the Youth Job Guarantee (YJG), to help unemployed youth find jobs though

Since the mid-1970s, higher education has increasingly relied on part-time, adjunct faculty. By 2015, 40% of classroom instructors were hired

Signing a noncompete agreement (NCA) means workers are not allowed to work for companies that compete with their current employer

In the developing world missing work due to illness often means poor families struggle. Since few jobs offer paid sick

While poor vision has the potential to decrease workplace productivity, little is known about the actual connection between access to

On average, across OECD countries, one in seven young people (15–29 years old) is neither employed nor pursuing education or

Greenhouse gases accumulating in the earth’s atmosphere are poised to raise global temperatures considerably in a relatively short period of

Pneumonia infection is a leading cause of illness in children worldwide, but we know little about its long-term consequences. Economists