Nathan Wilmers
@natewilmers.bsky.social
Working on wage inequality, economic sociology, unions, and work. associate professor @MITSloan.
Yes, terrific to have you teaching us and the students! I’ll be stealing the square game :)
July 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Yes, terrific to have you teaching us and the students! I’ll be stealing the square game :)
Thanks so much for this thoughtful write-up, Tom!!
June 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Thanks so much for this thoughtful write-up, Tom!!
I love the quantified comparison to the great compression! And agreed, started before COVID, but seems to be supercharged after 2020
November 17, 2023 at 8:20 PM
I love the quantified comparison to the great compression! And agreed, started before COVID, but seems to be supercharged after 2020
Great post. I wonder if there have always been field-defining DVs (solidarity, order, modernization, secularization) and inequality is just a particularly successful example. Or has the style of soc changed, such that we’re undersupplied with distinctive theory and overfocused on this one outcome
October 10, 2023 at 9:44 PM
Great post. I wonder if there have always been field-defining DVs (solidarity, order, modernization, secularization) and inequality is just a particularly successful example. Or has the style of soc changed, such that we’re undersupplied with distinctive theory and overfocused on this one outcome
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Some relevant lit abt workers dealing with imperfectly observed employer heterogeneity:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/28mbj...
www.nber.org/papers/w29623
www.nber.org/papers/w30266
What else do you know in this area?
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/28mbj...
www.nber.org/papers/w29623
www.nber.org/papers/w30266
What else do you know in this area?
What’s the Inside Scoop? Challenges in the Supply and Demand for Information on Employers | Journa...
Workers struggle to understand prospective employers. Through experienced workers’ volunteered reviews, Glassdoor is a platform seeking to provide information about prospective employers to job seek...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
October 4, 2023 at 7:51 PM
Some relevant lit abt workers dealing with imperfectly observed employer heterogeneity:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/28mbj...
www.nber.org/papers/w29623
www.nber.org/papers/w30266
What else do you know in this area?
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/28mbj...
www.nber.org/papers/w29623
www.nber.org/papers/w30266
What else do you know in this area?
Could be; 80s is big inequality increases across the board, regardless of data used. Late 90s shows faster growth for lower paid workers in CPS-ORG vs the March CPS shown here. Not sure which is right
October 6, 2023 at 6:45 PM
Could be; 80s is big inequality increases across the board, regardless of data used. Late 90s shows faster growth for lower paid workers in CPS-ORG vs the March CPS shown here. Not sure which is right
Yes! And note the very rapid increases for LTHS since Great Recession. College premium has actually been declining recently
October 6, 2023 at 3:35 PM
Yes! And note the very rapid increases for LTHS since Great Recession. College premium has actually been declining recently