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Women had higher median earnings than men in relatively few occupations in 2018 


March 22, 2019
In 2018, women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median weekly earnings that were 81.1 percent of those of full-time wage and salary male workers, with women earning $789 and men earning $973. Full Text »
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Is the U.S. labor market for truck drivers broken?  
Stephen V. Burks, Kristen Monaco
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Compensation trends into the 21st century

During the Second World War, the War Labor Board controlled increases in cash wages in order to limit inflationary pressures from competition in the labor force.[1] This encouraged employers to use employee benefits as a form of noninflationary compensation.
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