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Domestic workers / Low pay is a systemic problem, but not the only one
Domestic workers earn substandard pay, and enjoy little economic mobility or financial security. Formal employment contracts are rare in the domestic work industry, and where work agreements do exist,...
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Spain / Job Without Paycheck
Over the past two years, Ana María Molina Cuevas, 36, has worked five shifts a week in a ceramics factory on the outskirts of this city, hand-rolling paint onto tiles. But at the end of the month, she...
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US Job Market / The Year 2012 in Review: Improving at a steady slow pace
Employment continued to improve modestly, unemployment edged down, and wage gains were approximately equal to price inflation in 2012. By the end of the year the recovery from the deep recession in...
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The ‘Right to Work’ From The Right: A Race-To-The-Bottom Policies
Michigan Republicans are pushing low wages, claiming that “right-to-work” laws will “attract businesses.” Conservatives argue that strong unions cost jobs and anti-union “right-to-work” laws will bring...
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Inclusive labor-market institutions: the most effective general remedy for...
“Over the last two decades, high – and, in some countries, rising – rates of low-wage work have emerged as a major political concern” writes John Schmitt in Low-wage Lessons (Choosen excerpts by Job...
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Indonesia / Pressure on Nike suppliers for paying minimum wages
The battle over factory pay in Indonesia is intensifying, with vocal local trade unions joining hands with a US non-governmental organisation to pressure Nike suppliers into paying minimum wages. A...
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Canada / Gender Gap in Apprenticeship: earnings similar to college education...
Analysis of the 2006 census found certified male apprentices had earnings similar to men with a community college education, according to two papers to be published in the Canadian Labour Market and...
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US / Vast majority of wage earners are working harder and more
“The U.S. economy over the past decade has worked primarily to the advantage of a small sliver of winners” writes Lawrence Mishel of the Economic Policy Institute. (Excepts to follow) Meanwhile, the...
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US / The Great Wage Recession And The Great Jobs Recession : Two Charts
As bad as the current job recovery has been — and it’s by far the weakest since World War II — the recovery in wages has been far worse. Five years after the recession began in December 2007, total...
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US / 5 Myths About the Minimum Wage
Myth #1: Hordes of Minimum-Wage Workers Very few Americans are actually working for the federal minimum wage—it’s just 2.9 percent of all workers in the United States. In other words, 97 percent of...
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US / Wage stickiness might be dying out
A new paper by a trio of researchers confirms some old news: Adjusted for inflation, wages began stagnating for both men and women 10 years ago. Men’s wages have actually decreased slightly since 2000,...
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US / The Low-Wage Job Machine
In the wake of the July employment report released last week, an interesting graphic appeared in a Wall Street Journal article with the somewhat distressing title “Low Pay Clouds Job Growth.” The...
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US / Fast-food workers on strike for a ‘living wage’
Fast-food workers went on strike and protested outside McDonald’s, Burger King and other restaurants in 60 U.S. cities on Thursday, in the largest protest of an almost year-long campaign to raise...
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Wages Growth in US since the Great Recession – Maps
workers’ wage growth has been uneven across the country’s metros. To chart where wages have grown the most during America’s recovery, my Martin Prosperity Institute colleague Charlotta Mellander ran...
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The Fight for Higher Wages
Let’s face it. Something’s broken here in an economy that serves up low wages to significant numbers of adults whose families depend on their earnings (the typical worker earning between the minimum...
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US / Labor’s Share of Income is around a 50-year low
Profits as a share of income are at or near record highs while the compensation share is around a 50-year low. That trend deserves a closer look. The chart below plots the total compensation share of...
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US / Workers make less now than before the recession
American workers are making less than they did in 2007, before the financial crisis, according to new data from PayScale. Real wages have declined by nearly 7 percent since then. Meanwhile, the firm...
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Bangladesh / 140 factories closed in new wage protest
Almost 140 Bangladeshi garment factories were shut on Monday as thousands of workers protesting at a new minimum wage clashed with police outside Dhaka, police and manufacturers said. Protests at poor...
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US Factory Workers / Wages Stagnate
Even with hiring and output robust enough to be dubbed a manufacturing renaissance by President Barack Obama, workers are falling behind. Factory pay hasn’t kept pace with inflation and has fallen 3...
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US / It Pays to Be Stressed
Based on interviews and research, U.S. News broke down jobs into five categories, ranging from low- to high-stress. Below, those categories’ median salaries are averaged together. As it turns out, the...
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