 Schmitt has co-authored (with Lawrence Mishel and Jared Bernstein) three editions of The State of Working America(Cornell University Press).He has also contributed to The American Prospect, The Boston Review, , The Guardian, The International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, and other newspapers and magazines.He is also a visiting lecturer at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) and has been an academic visitor at the Universidad Centroamericana "Jose Simeon Cañas" (San Salvador, El Salvador).