Heather Boushey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Boushey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Boushey |
| SIGNATURE | BOUSHEY H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington Center for Equitable Growth |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Unbound
There is a transformation now underway in economics that is thoroughly upending the conventional wisdom about how our nation can deliver strong, stable, and broadly shared economic growth. A new generation of scholars, informed by new data and sources of empirical evidence, is challenging long-held assumptions about how the economy works and the extent to which those workings can be understood in isolation from the larger dynamics of the rest of …
After Piketty
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas Piketty pushed to the forefront of global conversation? A cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty,…
Why Are We Now Talking about “Unfinished Business”? Unfinished Business
Finding Time
Employers demand more of employees' time while leaving the important things in life—health, family—for workers to take care of on their own time and dime. How can workers get ahead while making sure their families don't fall behind? Heather Boushey shows in detail that economic efficiency and equity do not have to be enemies
Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism
This volume covers the theoretical method, macroeconomics, microeconomics, international trade and finance, development, and policy of economic theory. It incorporates various alternative approaches as well as a broad spectrum of policy issues
The (Mis)Measure of Prosperity
High-Touch and Here-to-Stay
Interactive service occupations, requiring face-to-face contact, are rapidly growing in the US as they are typically not susceptible to larger trends of off-shoring and computerization. Yet conventional paradigms of understanding the nature of that work, and in particular the skill demands, are often ill equipped to deal with the 'interactive' aspects of these gendered and racialized occupations. As a result, discussions of lower-end service occu…
The Wages of Exclusion
Has Growing Inequality Contributed to Rising Household Economic Distress
The personal bankruptcy rate increased more than fourfold in the last quarter century. Other measures of economic distress, particularly foreclosure and credit default rates, also increased sharply. A possible explanation for this is greater household indebtedness. Household debt relative to income, however, did not even double over the same period, suggesting that the aggregate increase in household economic distress was disproportionate to the …
Family Friendly Policies
This paper examines how family friendly policies affect mothers' wages. Standard economic theory predicts that workers who desire family friendly policies would accept lower wages, all else equal. However, in the US labor market, the workers who have access to these policies tend to be in the higher-prestige and higher-earning occupations. This study examines the effects on wages of having had access to maternity leave and the ability to control …
Opting out?” The effect of children on women's employment in the United States
In the United States, a recent spate of popular media attention has focused on whether mothers, especially highly educated mothers in their thirties, are increasingly “opting out” of employment. This paper uses data from the Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Survey (ASEC) to examine whether children cause women to exit employment. This paper finds that the “child effect” on women's employment has fallen since the end of the 1…
Unemployment Insurance Eligibility Before and After Welfare Reform
Welfare and unemployment insurance (UI) were designed to serve distinct populations, mothers and workers. As more women moved into the paid labor force, these previously separate groups have melded into a single group–working mothers. In this research, we analyze the likelihood of former welfare recipients being eligible for UI using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Our analysis compares UI eligibility in the early 1990s …
A House Divided
A House Divided
The state of working America, 2002/2003
The Economic Boom (1991-1997) and Women
This essay considers changes in various earnings ratios between 1991 and 1997. The female-to-male earnings ratio increased in every region primarily because of the wage growth of women in occupations that required some college education and the disproportional growth of women employed in those occupations. The earnings gap between those working in college-required and those working in no-college-required occupations grew among women but decreased…
This Country Is Not Woman-Friendly or Child-Friendly”
Through the use of focus groups, this paper examines how former welfare recipients living in public housing in New York City adapted to the policy changes caused by welfare reform, how they experienced their transition to the “world of work” and how this affected their perceptions about their quality of life and their personal and familial relationships. The primary theme that emerged from the focus group sessions was the difficulties reconciling…
Reworking the Wage Curve
This paper extends Blanchflower & Oswald's (1994) work on the wage curve to the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. The wage curve is more elastic in US metropolitan areas than prior research shows for the nation as a whole, and the wage curve varies over the business cycle, becoming more elastic in periods of higher unemployment. The most striking finding is that black workers have a more elastic wage curve than do white workers.…
The Economic Contributions of David M. Gordon
Throughout his too brief career, David Gordon made many contributions to economics. His social structure of accumulation model sought to explain the economic performance of the US based upon whether institutional structures are conducive to profitability and growth. His work in labour economics sought to explain slow productivity and wage growth in the US. And his work in macroeconomics sought to compare and test different macroeconometric models…
The state of working America, 2002/2003
Opting out?” The effect of children on women's employment in the United States
In the United States, a recent spate of popular media attention has focused on whether mothers, especially highly educated mothers in their thirties, are increasingly “opting out” of employment. This paper uses data from the Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Survey (ASEC) to examine whether children cause women to exit employment. This paper finds that the “child effect” on women's employment has fallen since the end of the 1…
High-Touch and Here-to-Stay
Interactive service occupations, requiring face-to-face contact, are rapidly growing in the US as they are typically not susceptible to larger trends of off-shoring and computerization. Yet conventional paradigms of understanding the nature of that work, and in particular the skill demands, are often ill equipped to deal with the 'interactive' aspects of these gendered and racialized occupations. As a result, discussions of lower-end service occu…
Family Friendly Policies
This paper examines how family friendly policies affect mothers' wages. Standard economic theory predicts that workers who desire family friendly policies would accept lower wages, all else equal. However, in the US labor market, the workers who have access to these policies tend to be in the higher-prestige and higher-earning occupations. This study examines the effects on wages of having had access to maternity leave and the ability to control …
Has Growing Inequality Contributed to Rising Household Economic Distress
The personal bankruptcy rate increased more than fourfold in the last quarter century. Other measures of economic distress, particularly foreclosure and credit default rates, also increased sharply. A possible explanation for this is greater household indebtedness. Household debt relative to income, however, did not even double over the same period, suggesting that the aggregate increase in household economic distress was disproportionate to the …
This Country Is Not Woman-Friendly or Child-Friendly”
Through the use of focus groups, this paper examines how former welfare recipients living in public housing in New York City adapted to the policy changes caused by welfare reform, how they experienced their transition to the “world of work” and how this affected their perceptions about their quality of life and their personal and familial relationships. The primary theme that emerged from the focus group sessions was the difficulties reconciling…
Unemployment Insurance Eligibility Before and After Welfare Reform
Welfare and unemployment insurance (UI) were designed to serve distinct populations, mothers and workers. As more women moved into the paid labor force, these previously separate groups have melded into a single group–working mothers. In this research, we analyze the likelihood of former welfare recipients being eligible for UI using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Our analysis compares UI eligibility in the early 1990s …
The Economic Contributions of David M. Gordon
Throughout his too brief career, David Gordon made many contributions to economics. His social structure of accumulation model sought to explain the economic performance of the US based upon whether institutional structures are conducive to profitability and growth. His work in labour economics sought to explain slow productivity and wage growth in the US. And his work in macroeconomics sought to compare and test different macroeconometric models…
This Country Is Not Woman-Friendly or Child-Friendly”
Through the use of focus groups, this paper examines how former welfare recipients living in public housing in New York City adapted to the policy changes caused by welfare reform, how they experienced their transition to the “world of work” and how this affected their perceptions about their quality of life and their personal and familial relationships. The primary theme that emerged from the focus group sessions was the difficulties reconciling…
Reworking the Wage Curve
This paper extends Blanchflower & Oswald's (1994) work on the wage curve to the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. The wage curve is more elastic in US metropolitan areas than prior research shows for the nation as a whole, and the wage curve varies over the business cycle, becoming more elastic in periods of higher unemployment. The most striking finding is that black workers have a more elastic wage curve than do white workers.…
The state of working America, 2002/2003
The Economic Boom (1991-1997) and Women
This essay considers changes in various earnings ratios between 1991 and 1997. The female-to-male earnings ratio increased in every region primarily because of the wage growth of women in occupations that required some college education and the disproportional growth of women employed in those occupations. The earnings gap between those working in college-required and those working in no-college-required occupations grew among women but decreased…
A House Divided
A House Divided
Unemployment Insurance Eligibility Before and After Welfare Reform
Welfare and unemployment insurance (UI) were designed to serve distinct populations, mothers and workers. As more women moved into the paid labor force, these previously separate groups have melded into a single group–working mothers. In this research, we analyze the likelihood of former welfare recipients being eligible for UI using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Our analysis compares UI eligibility in the early 1990s …
Opting out?” The effect of children on women's employment in the United States
In the United States, a recent spate of popular media attention has focused on whether mothers, especially highly educated mothers in their thirties, are increasingly “opting out” of employment. This paper uses data from the Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Survey (ASEC) to examine whether children cause women to exit employment. This paper finds that the “child effect” on women's employment has fallen since the end of the 1…
The Wages of Exclusion
Has Growing Inequality Contributed to Rising Household Economic Distress
The personal bankruptcy rate increased more than fourfold in the last quarter century. Other measures of economic distress, particularly foreclosure and credit default rates, also increased sharply. A possible explanation for this is greater household indebtedness. Household debt relative to income, however, did not even double over the same period, suggesting that the aggregate increase in household economic distress was disproportionate to the …
Family Friendly Policies
This paper examines how family friendly policies affect mothers' wages. Standard economic theory predicts that workers who desire family friendly policies would accept lower wages, all else equal. However, in the US labor market, the workers who have access to these policies tend to be in the higher-prestige and higher-earning occupations. This study examines the effects on wages of having had access to maternity leave and the ability to control …
High-Touch and Here-to-Stay
Interactive service occupations, requiring face-to-face contact, are rapidly growing in the US as they are typically not susceptible to larger trends of off-shoring and computerization. Yet conventional paradigms of understanding the nature of that work, and in particular the skill demands, are often ill equipped to deal with the 'interactive' aspects of these gendered and racialized occupations. As a result, discussions of lower-end service occu…
The (Mis)Measure of Prosperity
Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism
This volume covers the theoretical method, macroeconomics, microeconomics, international trade and finance, development, and policy of economic theory. It incorporates various alternative approaches as well as a broad spectrum of policy issues
Finding Time
Employers demand more of employees' time while leaving the important things in life—health, family—for workers to take care of on their own time and dime. How can workers get ahead while making sure their families don't fall behind? Heather Boushey shows in detail that economic efficiency and equity do not have to be enemies
After Piketty
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas Piketty pushed to the forefront of global conversation? A cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty,…
Why Are We Now Talking about “Unfinished Business”? Unfinished Business
Unbound
There is a transformation now underway in economics that is thoroughly upending the conventional wisdom about how our nation can deliver strong, stable, and broadly shared economic growth. A new generation of scholars, informed by new data and sources of empirical evidence, is challenging long-held assumptions about how the economy works and the extent to which those workings can be understood in isolation from the larger dynamics of the rest of …
Economics (15 works) · Labour economics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (5 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Wage (4 works)