Lawrence F. Katz: “Sectors in tension must increase wages”

Jbut in his long career as a labor economist, Harvard professor Lawrence F. Katz has not been confronted with such strong and profound changes. Cascading resignations, lasting growth in remote work, impressive rise in wages, resurrection of unions on land from which they were believed to have been banned for forty years, acceleration of the automation of production sites … Employers and employees across the country Atlantic are facing major upheavals born of the pandemic, which are redefining their relationships. The “best American labor economist of his generation,” says the professor at the Collège de France Philippe Aghion, gives us all the lessons – necessarily provisional – that we can draw.

Point : A phenomenon called “Grande Dé …