I think a neglected element of the politics of wage stagnation in the United States is that for most of the stagnation period women’s wages have been rising a lot. But Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney of the Brookings Institute report that the party’s over:
The recession, obviously, is unlikely to improve this trend.
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