The article argues that the puzzles of stagnating poverty rates amidst high growth and declining unemployment in the US can be explained by bad quality jobs and polarization of the jobs market (JMP). JMP accounts for the distribution of jobs across households, where high JMP implies there are...

This book analyzes the status and position of African American men in the U.S. labor market prior to, during, and after the Great Recession. Using a model of occupational crowding, the book outlines how the representation of African American men in major occupational categories almost...

We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker, especially during cyclical swings in the labor market. Building on this result, we propose a novel representation of the intensive margin based on a stock-flow framework. The evolution of...