Measuring the Salary Value of Education and Work Experience in Massachusetts
Original Research • November 22, 2019 A Regression-Model Study of Salaries in New-Hire Job Postings Sources of Value-Added. Massachusetts has a unique work-force: well-educated, highly experienced, and hardworking. For years, salaries more or less stagnated as Massachusetts employers benefited from a large pool of underemployed and unemployed talent. In that tough, employer-driven market, workers who wanted to learn new skills or seek a better credential typically chose to go

Fix the Fundamental Flaw in Labor Law
If the DOL 2020 Independent Contracting proposal is adopted into the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, three problems will remain, symptoms of a single flaw in all U.S. employment law. First, there will still be no way for a voluntarily self-employed individual to acquire self employed status for certain. Second, there will still be no way to communicate voluntarily self-employed status. There will be no token that a self-employed individual can show a buyer that he or she is
