Why has the US federal minimum wage stagnated since 2009? We argue the answer lies in institutions. Vesting wage-setting authority in Congress rather than the executive multiplies veto points and diffuses electoral accountability for wage stagnation. @poppublicsphere.bsky.social

New research alert! 📢 In the European Journal of Industrial Relations, @ibrahimoker.bsky.social, @fuatkina.bsky.social, and I explore global unionization dynamics, identifying the key factors that facilitate and/or hinder union membership. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New article out in World Development: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Armed conflict and human development are complex concepts, and the links between them are many and varied. In this article, a large team of co-authors review these different links. Happy to have been a small part of it.