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)
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
Academic Publications
The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem
(with Robert Schultz)
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2023
VoxEU summary; 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
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
Replication package available at the Contemporary Social Science website under "Supplemental"
Twitter thread; column in the Times; longer column in VoxEU; Media coverage in Financial Times (& here & here), Guardian
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
longer version as a PIIE working paper, which contains more on the relationship between fertility and gender disparities: Why Gender Disparities Persist in South Korea's Labor Market
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
The Declining Worker Power Hypothesis
(with Lawrence H. Summers)
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2020
Replication files (abridged version for figures only, and full version, both available)
Twitter thread; VoxEU column; Some media coverage: WSJ Real Time Economics, New York Times, NPR's the Indicator, Marginal Revolution, Libération, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
(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
Original version available as HKS M-RCBG Associate Working Paper No. 67 (2016)