Research 

Working Papers

Tackling the UK's Regional Economic Inequality: Binding constraints and avenues for policy intervention (with Dan Turner and Ed Balls)

• Twitter thread; column in the Times; longer column in VoxEU; Media coverage in Financial Times (& here), Guardian 

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

• Occupational mobility data set (updated version 2021/01/05. NB: you will need to unzip using 7-Zip).

• WCEG Policy brief, article at ProMarket, research summary by UCLA Anderson Management Review

• Older versions (WCEG working paper Jan 2021,old Tweet thread summary)

Do US Firms Have an Incentive to Comply with the FLSA and NLRA?

• Twitter thread; Column in Bloomberg Opinion; Exec Summary & Policy Implications; PIIE Chart

• Underlying data

Socioeconomic Diversity of US Economics PhDs (with Robert Schultz)

• Twitter thread; Harvard Business Review column; Media coverage at NPR Marketplace; Moody's Inside Economics podcast, Washington Post, MIT Sloan Ideas Made to Matter, Marginal Revolution, the Why Axis, CGD Blog

• Replication data 

Academic Publications

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

• (much) shorter version of prior PIIE working paper, which contains more on the relationship between fertility and gender disparities, here:  Why Gender Disparities Persist in South Korea's Labor Market (with Karen Dynan and Jacob Funk Kirkegaard)

• Twitter thread

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

• Twitter threads (Jacob's, mine); VoxEU Column; PIIE Blog Post

• NBER working paper version

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

• Twitter thread; VoxEU column; Some media coverage: WSJ Real Time Economics, New York Times, NPR's the Indicator, Marginal Revolution, Libération, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

• Some questions about the paper, and our responses

• Replication files

• (old versions of paper: BPEA Spring 2020 Conference draft, NBER version)

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

• NBER working paper version; PIIE working paper version (ungated)

• VoxEU article Feb 2018, Financial Times and Washington Post blogs Nov 2017, Tweet thread summary; Some media coverage: Wall Street Journal,  Financial Times, Bloomberg, Economist

• Presentation Video & slides Nov 2017; Presentation at PIIE Book Launch March 2019 (video (15 min), slides, and a Tweet thread summary.)  

• Replication data and code. 

Other Research Publications

Under the Wage Floor: Exploring firms' incentives to comply with the minimum wage (with Lindsay Judge)
Resolution Foundation Briefing Note, 8th January 2020

• Twitter thread; Some media coverage: Financial Times, Guardian, BBC, Telegraph, Times, Bloomberg, Mirror

• Database: Employment Tribunal cases with minimum wage underpayment offences (2017-2019)

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)

• VoxEU article; Some media coverage: Financial Times, Guardian, Telegraph, BBC, CityAM

• Presentation Video & slides (April 2018)

• Original version available as HKS M-RCBG Associate Working Paper No. 67 (2016)