Day: March 6, 2023

Employers

Low-Wage Workers Climb the Earnings Ladder

Wall Street Journal (03/06/23) Lahart, Justin U.S. Department of Labor data documents the outsized wage gains of lower-paid workers compared with those of better paid workers since the pandemic began. A paper by economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts Amherst explores how this came about. Even as the pandemic fades, competition for low-wage workers will be more intense than

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