ABSTRACT
[...]overall economic inequality has notably increased (whether measured by earnings, income, or wealth), and many lower-income families today experience poverty and economic hardship. David Autor (2014) describes some of the key trends behind rising premiums to education and high skills;he finds that the earnings gap between college and high school–educated men roughly doubled in the three decades between 1979 and 2012, and that this trend is nearly as strong for women. [...]those without a college degree are increasingly left out of experiencing the fruits of economic growth. Nonstandard Schedules Work schedules are also more variable, and work is more likely to occur during nonstandard hours (Presser 2003;Lozano, Hamplová, and Le Bourdais 2016;Craig and Powell 2012;Golden 2015);and unstable work schedules have been linked with a lower likelihood of having health insurance (Lim 2019) and greater adverse health outcomes (Schneider and Harknett 2019). Some research has even found that union density or coverage predicts positive spillovers to wages of nonunion private-sector employees (Denice and Rosenfeld 2018), suggesting that the decline in union membership affects the economic potential and economic security not only of union members themselves.