Labor

It’s a resurgence other countries should understand before copying.

When evaluating American firms, the public places a significant emphasis on the treatment of workers.

Employees are constantly in motion—making sales calls or taking service trips; visiting an international office for a few days or relocating there for a few years; soaring across oceans in the corporate jet or heading across town in the company car. Typically, these activities are administered by an assortment of departments and vendors. But we […]

New research on the skills gap.

To maintain worldwide competitiveness, the West must adopt strategies achieve a balance between productivity and welfare goals

Just ban them.

In Silicon Valley, workers’ financial fate is tied to finding a winning firm.

Hilltop Stores 100 Bloomfield Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut 06105 Serving Greater Hartford Since 1926 Date: February 16, 1989 To: Margaret Flynn, CEO Hilltop From: Ed Boyer, VP for store operations Our contract with Local 413 expires June 18, so we need to start preparing for negotiations (they’re scheduled to begin in eight weeks). Now is a […]

Today, most multinationals have a conspicuous social conscience. They publicize their internal codes of conduct, monitor labor conditions in their global supply chains, and require suppliers to meet basic labor practice standards. But despite efforts to be better global citizens, companies by themselves are unable to eliminate abuses in their supply chains. In fact, so […]

Obama's plan rightly focuses on "middle-skill" training and jobs.

This article could be entitled, “How to Succeed in Business by Being Unreasonable.” Most businessmen are very skillful in this respect, although their behavior is popularly called negotiation, gamesmanship, or, perhaps most apt of all, brinkmanship. The art of being unreasonable is not, of course, restricted to smoke-filled rooms at corporate headquarters. The principles are […]

At the first sign of union organizing, company management often decides to do “whatever is necessary to defeat the union,” as one corporate vice president put it. Without advance thought or preparation, the company launches a policy of resistance and often winds up before the National Labor Relations Board charged with unfair labor practices. Sometimes […]

Research shows it can reduce inequality and improve productivity.

Preparing workers for a changing workplace is as important as pay.

Leading economists share their favorite visualizations of inequality data.

Jason Furman, former economic adviser to the White House, offers his own view on firm inequality.

They’re using the wrong data to assess job quality.

An analysis of pay at public universities in Canada shows that they might.

Technology, trade, and labor markets all play a role.