Summaries
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 Human Capital, K12, Labor Unions, Personnel, Teachers
Casey Family Programs. Are there parallels between hiring and child protection processes that can help reduce bias and narrow child welfare’s front door?. Aug. 19, 2020.
Topics Human Capital, K12, Labor Unions, Personnel, Teachers
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 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 Human Capital, K12, Labor Unions, Personnel, Teachers
Jatusripitak, N., E. Mykerezi, A. Sojourner & K. West. School and Teacher Preferences: Evidence from a Multi-stage Internal Labor Market.
In Works in Progress
Topics Human Capital, K12, Labor Unions, Personnel, Teachers
Sojourner, A., E. Mykerezi, & K. West. (2014) Teacher Pay Reform And Productivity: Panel Data Evidence from Adoptions of Q-Comp in Minnesota. Journal of Human Resources. 49(4): 945-981.
In Published Papers
Summaries
- Mykerezi, Sojourner & West (July 2015) "Reforming Teacher Contracts: A Look at the Impact of Q-Comp on Student Achievement in Minnesota" Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) Reporter. Also a 3-page policy brief.
- The 74 Million: The merit pay myth: Why the conventional wisdom about paying teachers is wrong
- Star-Tribune: Additional state funding for teacher evaluations proposed
- HometownSource.com: 5-to-1 return on taxpayer dollars is encouraging news. Also, Mille Lacs County Times and Stillwater Gazette,
- Educators for Excellence Minnesota: Quality Compensation: Supporting and Rewarding Excellence in Teaching
- Minnpost: Minnesota Must Raise Q-Comp Cap to Support Teachers
- Star-Tribune op-ed: Don't Go Writing Off Q-Comp
- Cited in Star-Tribune letter to editor responding to this op-ed
- Pioneer Press article about our testimony at Minnesota House Education committee3/7/14
- Star-Tribune op-ed
- Star-Tribune article and our letter to the editor
Topics Human Capital, K12, Labor Unions, Personnel, Teachers
Hart, C. & A. Sojourner (2015) Unionization and Productivity: Evidence from Charter Schools. Industrial Relations. 55(4): 422-448. Working paper version: IZA.
In Published Papers
Press Mentions
- The American Prospect: When Charters Go Union
- Chalkbeat: At ed reform conference, charter school leaders feel the political heat and strategize about how to fend off unions
- Ohio Watchdog: Kids do fine when charter school forms labor union, study shows. Also, at Townhall.com.
- The Detroit News: Do Unions Spell Charter School Doom?
- Worchester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette Unions no enemy to achievement
- Minnesota Public Radio Union Votes at Two Charter Schools Could Open Way to Others
- Star-Tribune: St. Paul charter school votes to unionize
- Minnesota Public Radio St. Paul charter school's teachers join union
- Pioneer-Press: St. Paul German Immersion School teachers vote for union
- Star-Tribune: German school now state's only unionized charter
Topics Human Capital, K12, Labor Unions, Personnel, Teachers
Sajjadiani, S., A. Sojourner, J. Kammeyer-Mueller & E. Mykerezi (2019) Using Machine Learning to Translate Pre-Hire Work History into Predictors of Performance and Retention. Journal of Applied Psychology. 104(10):1207-1225.
In Published Papers [Slides]
Press Mentions
- Quartz at Work: An experiment to find teachers who perform better and stay longer shows promising results
- Education Week: Taking the Guesswork Out of Teacher Hiring
- Education Week: Districts Are Screening for Racial Biases During Teacher Job Interviews. Here's How
- Nimble: Nimble partners with researchers to identify excellent teachers
- City Pages: Can AI help Minneapolis Public Schools find better teachers who stay longer?
- Carlson School magazine: Aaron Sojourner helps Minneapolis Public Schools invest in their students
- UBC Sauder magazine: Study finds using machine learning can hire better teachers
- U Minnesota Research Brief: Predicting Job Performance and Turnover in Education Using Machine Learning
Topics Human Capital, K12, Labor Unions, Personnel, Teachers
Sockin, J. & A. Sojourner (forthcoming) What's the Inside Scoop? Challenges in the Supply and Demand for Information about Job Attributes. Journal of Labor Economics
In Published Papers
Working Papers Press Mentions
- Financial Times: The NDA boom is bad for both employers and workers
Topics Human Capital, K12, Labor Unions, Personnel, Teachers
Ruffini, K., A. Sojourner & A. Wozniak (2021) Who's in and who's out under workplace COVID symptom screening? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
In Published Papers
Working Papers Summaries
- Econofact: COVID Symptom Screening at the Workplace
- The Hill: Employers have critical role to prevent second wave
- Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank: How well do workplace COVID-19 screens work? And do they discriminate?
- Tradeoffs podcast: The perils of self-reported COVID screening
Topics Human Capital, K12, Labor Unions, Personnel, Teachers
Aaron Sojourner
Senior Researcher
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
269-385-0438
sojourner@upjohn.org
Senior Researcher
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
269-385-0438
sojourner@upjohn.org