Research 

Working papers

How do Firms Respond to Unions?
(with Samuel Dodini and Alexander Willén)

Employer Concentration and Outside Options
(with Gregor Schubert and Bledi Taska)

The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from Academia
(with Kyra Rodriguez) - draft coming soon, slides on request

Incentives to Comply with the Minimum Wage in the US and UK
Revise & Resubmit, ILR Review - paper available on request

Better Outside Options Reduce Workplace Injuries
(with R Jisung Park) - work in progress

Minimum Wages and Workplace Safety
(with R Jisung Park) - work in progress


Publications

Labor Market Power & Institutions

The Declining Worker Power Hypothesis
(with Lawrence H. Summers)
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2020

Socioeconomic Status & Class Inequality

The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem
(with Robert Schultz)
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2023

Productivity & Inequality

Tackling the UK's Regional Economic Inequality: Binding constraints and avenues for policy intervention
(with Dan Turner and Ed Balls)
Contemporary Social Science, August 2023

Productivity and Pay in the United States and Canada
(with Jacob Greenspon and Lawrence H. Summers)
International Productivity Monitor, Fall 2021

Productivity and Pay: Is the Link Broken? (WP version)
(with Lawrence H. Summers)  
in Facing Up To Low Productivity Growth, Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2019

Other Topics

Gender Gaps in South Korea's Labor Market: Children explain most of the gender employment gap, but little of the gender wage gap
(with Jacob Funk Kirkegaard and Karen Dynan)
Applied Economics Letters, May 2023

Central Bank Independence Revisited: After the financial crisis, what should a model central bank look like?
(with Ed Balls and James Howat)
Harvard Kennedy School M-RCBG Associate Working Paper No. 87 (2018)