Labor Market Archives | Aaron Sojourner

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 Compensating Differentials, 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 Compensating Differentials, 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 Compensating Differentials, Labor Market

Nonprofit Quarterly, Designing Workforce Programs with Worker Power in Mind (with S. Kahn & S. Naidu)
Topics Compensating Differentials, Labor Market

Econofact: The Mexican Border and U.S. Trade: What Would be the Impact of a Border Closure?
Topics Compensating Differentials, Labor Market

Economic Policy Institute's Working Economics: American job seekers think increasing the minimum wage would be good for them
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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 Compensating Differentials, 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 Compensating Differentials, 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 Compensating Differentials, 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 Compensating Differentials, Labor Market

Partial Identification of Willingness to Pay Using Shape Restrictions with an application to the Value of a Statistical Life
In Resting Papers
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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 Compensating Differentials, Labor Market

Star-Tribune: Sunday op-ed as part of pro-/con- feature on the minimum wage
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Center for American Progress: The Coronavirus Will Make Child Care Deserts Worse and Exacerbate Inequality
Summaries

childcaredeserts.org: interactive map illustrating families' child care access in every U.S. community

Press Mentions

U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee: We need to save child care before it's too late
Washington Post: Middle-income and rural families disproportionately grapple with child-care deserts, new report shows
Duluth News-Tribune: University of Minnesota child care research finds urban-rural divide, including in Northland

Topics Compensating Differentials, Labor Market

Sojourner, A. & J. Pacas (2019) The relationship between union membership and net fiscal impact. Industrial Relations. 58(1): 86-107.
In Published Papers
Working Papers

IZA & HCEO

Press Mentions

The Nation: Union Benefits Go Far Beyond the Workplace
HCEO Global Working Group: Research Spotlight: The Relationship between Union Membership and Net Fiscal Impact

Topics Compensating Differentials, Labor Market