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Despite being one of the largest economic expansions in state history, the boom of the 1990s did not bring real income and wage gains for the majority of New Jersey workers and households. Only those at the top of the labor market emerged from the decade in better shape.
The State of Working New Jersey was written by Leslie McCall, a professor at Rutgers University. She offers a comprehensive protrait of changes in earnings and income during the 1990s. The bottom line: the tightening of the labor market that helps to increase wages at the bottom and middle came too late and did not last long enough to have a major impact on wage growth.
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