Faculty Affiliate Jake Rosenfeld, Assistant Professor of Sociology, is interested in the relationships between labor market institutions and the structures of political and economic inequality.

Major Research Projects:

• Union decline, earnings inequality, and shifting political affiliation in the US
• The relationships between rising executive compensation and trade union power in the U.S., Great Britain, and Sweden
• How levels of income inequality affect the passage of progressive income policies at the state-level.

Sample Publications:

• Rosenfeld, J. 2006. Desperate Measures: Strikes and Wages in Post-Accord American. Social Forces 85: 235-265.
• Rosenfeld, J. 2006. Widening the Gap: The Effect of Declining Unionization on Managerial and Worker Pay, 1983-2000. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 24: 223-238.
• Western, B.; Kleykamp, M.; Rosenfeld, J. 2006. Did Falling Wages and Employment Increase U.S. Imprisonment? Social Forces  84(4): 2291-2311.

Contact Information:

Jake Rosenfeld
Email: jakerose@u.washington.edu
Homepage: http://www.soc.washington.edu/people/faculty_detail.asp?UID=jakerose
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