We discuss the potential role of universal basic incomes (UBIs) in advanced countries. A
feature of advanced economies that distinguishes them from developing countries is the …

Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income, and
unemployment rates. A growing class of place-based policies attempts to address these …

This essay discusses several potential economic, political and social costs of the current
path of AI technologies. I argue that if AI continues to be deployed along its current trajectory …

US cities today are vastly more educated and skill-intensive than they were five decades
ago. Yet, urban non-college workers perform substantially less skilled jobs than decades …

We estimate the effect of minimum wages on low-wage jobs using 138 prominent state-level
minimum wage changes between 1979 and 2016 in the United States using a difference-in …

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While
that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities …

THE GREAT ESCAPE is a movie about men escaping from a prisoner-ofwar camp in World
War II. The Great Escape of this book is the story of mankind's escaping from deprivation and …

We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases
in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and …

The earnings difference between white and black workers fell dramatically in the United
States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This article shows that the expansion of the …

The rise of inequality in advanced economies, and in particular the growing concentration of
incomes at the top of the distribution, has become a greater focus of attention for economists …