Jake Rosenfeld's research and teaching focus on the political and economic determinants of inequality in the United States and other advanced democracies. He is primarily interested in the determinants of wages and salaries and how they vary over time and place. He received his Ph.D. He is from Princeton University.
Mr. Rosenfeld's 2014 book, Unions Don't Do It Anymore (Harvard University Press), is a book about the suppression of movements for better working conditions, weakening support for the economic assimilation of immigrants, and African-Americans. It details the consequences of workforce decline, including the inability of workers to address wage stagnation. The book received widespread attention in national newspapers, The New Yorker, and Harvard Business Review.
His 2021 book, You're Paid What You're Worth and Other Myths of the Modern Economy (Harvard University Press), seeks to answer fundamental questions: who gets what and why. Masu. He claims that his four dynamics are the most important: force, inertia, imitation, and the need for fairness. Power struggles justify pay for certain jobs, and organizational inertia makes the pay seem natural. Imitation encourages employers to do what their colleagues are doing. And workers are on the lookout for practices that appear to be unfair. Rosenfeld explores how these dynamics play out in real-world settings, drawing on cutting-edge social science, original research data, and a journalistic eye to uncover compelling stories and details. indicates. The book has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Harvard Business Review.
