Winner Takes All
From Bloomberg: “The share that the top 1 percent of earners in the U.S. take from total wages has almost doubled since the 1970s, and...
Recovery is (Finally) Driving Median Incomes Higher
During the past two years, we have seen signs that wage pressure is building as the economic recovery grinds on. Enough evidence has now...
Median Incomes Are Finally Improving (Charts)
Some fascinating data out on the long awaited improvement in middle incomes in America. The past year have seen the biggest recent gains...
Can’t Find Qualified Applicants? Raise Your Pay!
Having Trouble Hiring? Try Paying More Job-market data suggests that employer demand may have caught up with labor supply. Bloomberg,...
Labor Compensation and Labor Productivity: Recent Recoveries...
Labor Compensation and Labor Productivity: Recent Recoveries and the Long-Term Trend by B. Ravikumar and Lin Shao Economic Synopses, No....
$7.25 of pay keeps the FLSA away
$7.25 of pay keeps the FLSA away as suggested by Meaulnes Kenwood FRED Blog, August 8, 2016 View on GeoFRED® In 1938, the...
Why Are We Paying CEOs for How Well the Stock Market Does?
CEOs Are Paid Fortunes Just to Be Average Executives who deliver market-matching results should be compensated as if they were low-cost...
When Executive Compensation Exploded
The precise moment in the 1990s when CEO pay suddenly shot up: Source: Planet Money Episode 682: When CEO Pay Exploded...