Christina Romer Jobs Quotations

The very first email I got [was] from a women's group saying 'We don't want this stimulus package to just create jobs for burly men.'

In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true today. Increased international competition has forced American manufacturers to reduce costs. As a result, the pay premium for low-skilled workers in manufacturing is smaller than it once was.