Labour Markets

Labour markets are a central engine of economic inequality: the wages, bargaining power, and job opportunities available to workers shape who prospers and who is left behind. Our team studies how labour market institutions and policies -- from minimum wages to collective bargaining -- influence the distribution of earnings, and how the power of employers affects the fortunes of low-wage workers. Our recent work has examined how minimum wage policies interact with worker power to shape wage growth, how the expansion of dominant employers such as Walmart Supercenters affects local labour markets and workers' earnings, and how labour market institutions more broadly structure patterns of social and economic stratification.