Weekend reading

This is a weekly post we publish every Friday with links to articles we think anyone interested in equitable growth should read. We won’t be the first to share these articles, but we hope by taking a look back at the whole week we can put them in context.

Economic volatility

Did we swap lower volatility for the entire economy for higher household income volatility? And how can we households better deal with the increased risk? [money & banking (opens in a new tab)]

Changes in the labor market

Ben Casselman on the slowly disappearing summer jobs for teenagers [fivethirtyeight (opens in a new tab)]

Zach Goldfarb on the declining labor force participation rate for women and how policies, such as paid family leave, can help reverse the trend [wonkblog (opens in a new tab)]

But men are also leaving the labor force. Uri Berliner asks why [npr (opens in a new tab)]

Jodi Kantor on the chaos created by erratic work schedules [nyt (opens in a new tab)]

Investment

Cardiff Garcia dives into the long-term investment trends and how that links into arguments about a possible future era of low growth [ft alphaville (opens in a new tab)]

Why are finance-sector profits an increasing share of our economy? Iren Levnia argues it’s because the industry’s profits look more and more like capital gains [ft alphaville (opens in a new tab)]