The Workweek: Nov. 22, 2016

This week’s Workweek focuses on jobs and the working class. It includes a story by the New York Times that shows while Donald Trump campaigned on bringing jobs back to hard-hit areas, the president can affect trade but has less power to slow the effect of technology that threatens to automate jobs. An essay in the Harvard Business Review explains “class cluelessness,” especially among Democrats in the 2016 campaign. And economists have worried about the decline in dynamism but new research from the San Francisco Fed finds that the big drop in job-switching is concentrated among young workers.

The most interesting takeaway this week? An article in the Washington Post looks at a study of law-firm hiring and found that men who appeared to have more privileged backgrounds were more likely to get interviews, compared with men who appeared less privileged and compared with women of all backgrounds.

The Workweek is a weekly roundup written mainly by Indeed.com’s chief economist Jed Kolko that highlights the latest research, news, and perspectives around the labor market. In addition to working with Indeed, Jed also pulled together all the research and data for the Shift Commission.