Labor Market Archives | Aaron Sojourner

The Guardian, Americans are more pro-union -- and anti-big business -- than at any time in decades (with Emily DiVito)
Topics Child Care Market, Early Childhood, Human Capital, Labor Market

Analysis for D.C. Office of the Attorney General: Economic Analysis of Incentives to Fraudulently Misclassify Employees in District of Columbia Construction
Press Mentions

Construction Citizen: AG Racine Releases Report on Payroll Fraud in District Construction Industry
AG Racine's testimony to U.S. House: Misclassification of Employees: Examining the Costs to Workers, Businesses, and the Economy

Topics Child Care Market, Early Childhood, Human Capital, Labor Market

Budd, J., A. Sojourner & J. Jung (2016) Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration. Industrial and Labor Relations Review. 70(4): 865-893. Earlier IZA version.
In Published Papers
Press Mentions

Research Features: Conflict Resolution: Are Voluntary Agreements More Favourable?
Management INK interview w/Budd: Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration
Carlson School story: Dispute Lessons from the Major Leagues & video interview w/Budd

Topics Child Care Market, Early Childhood, Human Capital, Labor Market

Benson, A., A. Sojourner, & A. Umyarov (2020) Can reputation discipline the gig economy? Experimental evidence from an online labor market. Management Science. 66(5):1802-1825
In Published Papers
Working Papers

Mpls Fed OIGI, HCEO & IZA

Press Mentions

Minneapolis Fed The Region: In the gig economy, reputation counts
Workday Minnesota with video: Researchers draw lessons from online labor markets
IZA Newsroom (Germany): New forms of work and shady employers: How reputation can discipline the "gig economy"
- Picked up by: EU CEDEFOP's Skills Panorama
Technology Policy Institute: Research Roundup Strikes Back
Economisch Statistische Berichten (Netherlands): Reputatie als tegengas in de sjeesconomie
BuzzFeed Tech: American Labor Unions Are Falling Down on Digital Workers

Topics Child Care Market, Early Childhood, Human Capital, Labor Market

Nonprofit Quarterly, Designing Workforce Programs with Worker Power in Mind (with S. Kahn & S. Naidu)
Topics Child Care Market, Early Childhood, Human Capital, Labor Market

Econofact: The Mexican Border and U.S. Trade: What Would be the Impact of a Border Closure?
Topics Child Care Market, Early Childhood, Human Capital, Labor Market

Economic Policy Institute's Working Economics: American job seekers think increasing the minimum wage would be good for them
Topics Child Care Market, Early Childhood, Human Capital, Labor Market

Roosevelt Institute, Employer Power and Employee Skills: Understanding Workforce Training Programs in the Context of Labor Market Power (with Suresh Naidu)
Summaries

Roosevelt Institute & Workrise webinar
Summary site at Roosevelt Institute
Nonprofit Quarterly op-ed: Designing workforce programs with worker power in mind

Topics Child Care Market, Early Childhood, Human Capital, Labor Market

Brookings, Examining the uneven and hard-to-predict labor market recovery (with Lauren Bauer, Arin Dube, & Wendy Edelberg)
Topics Child Care Market, Early Childhood, Human Capital, Labor Market

Sojourner, A., B. Frandsen, R. Town, D. Grabowski & M. Chen (2015) Impacts of Unionization on Quality and Productivity: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Nursing Homes. Industrial and Labor Relations Review. 68(4): 771-806. Working paper versions: IZA & NBER. [Appendix]
In Published Papers
Press Mentions

Hamilton Project: The Shift in Private-Sector Union Participation
Vox.com: I was skeptical of unions. Then I joined one.

Topics Child Care Market, Early Childhood, Human Capital, Labor Market

Hamilton Project, Increasing Federal Investment in Children's Early Care and Education to Raise Quality, Access, and Affordability (with Liz Davis)
Press Mentions

Radically Pragmatic, Progressive Policy Institute: video + podcast
Deseret News: Could child care help open the economy and why is its funding such a contentious topic?
Minnesota Reformer: Minnesota researchers craft proposal to improve child care access

Topics Child Care Market, Early Childhood, Human Capital, Labor Market

Qiu, Y. & A. Sojourner. Labor-Market Concentration & Labor Compensation
In Working Papers
Press Mentions

Forbes opinion: How Big Firms Keep Wages Low
Phenomenal World: The Emerging Monopsony Consensus
Hamilton Project: The Shift in Private-Sector Union Participation
Center for American Progress: The Modern Company Town

Topics Child Care Market, Early Childhood, Human Capital, Labor Market

Larson, R., S. Shannon, A. Sojourner & C. Uggen. Locked Out of the Labor Force: The Rise of Criminalization and the Fall in Work.
In Works in Progress
Press Mentions

American Public Media: Ban the Box may be counterproductive
Star Tribune: Economists at Minneapolis Fed meeting explore persistent racial gaps in hiring, wealth
Minneapolis Fed: Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute spring 2018 conference

Topics Child Care Market, Early Childhood, Human Capital, Labor Market

Partial Identification of Willingness to Pay Using Shape Restrictions with an application to the Value of a Statistical Life
In Resting Papers
Topics Child Care Market, Early Childhood, Human Capital, Labor Market

Goldsmith-Pinkham, P., E. Pancotti, & A. Sojourner. Predicting Initial Unemployment Insurance Claims Using Google Trends
In Working Papers
Working Papers

Slides

Summaries

Economic Policy Institute:Coronavirus job losses for the last two weeks could match two years of Great Recession's job losses
Economic Policy Institute: The coronavirus crisis led to a record-breaking spike in weekly uninsurance claims

Press Mentions

Mpls Fed For All: Crisis response: Institute economists address the pandemic
Politico Morning Money: Here comes another bad jobless claims number
Politico Morning Money: Brace for another grim (but maybe not as grim) jobless claim number
Axios: U.S. likely lost more jobs in 4 weeks than it gained in 11 years
The Fiscal Times: The worst recession since the Great Depression
Politico Morning Money: Brace for more terrible job losses
Washington Post: Over 10 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits in March as economy collapsed
- Weather Channel: Another 6.6 Million Americans Are Out of Work
New York Times: Jobless claims hit 3.3 million in the last report. This week's will probably be worse.
New York Times: Coronavirus spreads amid supply shortages, stay-at-home orders, nd sobering economics
Washington Post: The Finance 202
Vox: Coronavirus could lead to the highest unemployment levels since the Great Depression
Politico Morning Money: Laying out the coronavirus scenarios for the economy
Politico Morning Money: How do we get out?
Vox: 9 charts showing what the coronvirus is doing to the economy
Minnesota Public Radio: Minnesota's head of employment answers your unemployment questions
Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank's Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute: Crisis Response: Institute's economists address the pandemic
Forbes: Ahead of Thursday's jobless claims, the devil is in the revisions
Politico: 'Just damage containment': cost of coronavirus containment keeps rising
New York Times: More than 3 million Americans lost their jobs last week. See your state.
Politico Morning Money: How high will claims go?
Salon: More workers filed for unemployment last week than any other in U.S. history
The Fiscal Times: 10 million jobs lost, and millions more to come
Yale Insights: Making sense of a record-breaking wave of unemployment claims
Courthouse News: As economy shifts, length of lockdown will dictate speed of recovery
The Guardian: When it comes to unemployment in Australia, definitions have been broken
Common Dreams: "This chart, Holy Sh*t": Analysis shows more workers filed for unemployment last week than any other in U.S. history
- Also: Wall Street Window

Topics Child Care Market, Early Childhood, Human Capital, Labor Market