James Spletzer is a principal economist at the U.S. Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies. He joined the U.S. Census Bureau in 2012 as principal economist for the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics program in the Center for Economic Studies. Spletzer has published widely on many topics, such as the measurement of wage trends, gross job and worker flows, and employer-provided training. He is a co-editor of the books The Creation and Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data and Labor in the New Economy. His current research interests are employment dynamics, economic measurement, and the applications of linked employer-employee data. He received his B.A. in economics and mathematics from Knox College, and his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University. He joined the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 1990 as a research economist, and became the director of research for the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics in 2001.
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Lee Tucker
Lee Tucker is an economist at the U.S. Census Bureau’s Center for Economic Studies. As part of the Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics program, his research focuses on the applications of matched administrative data sources to the study of labor markets. His ongoing research includes work on monopsony, domestic outsourcing, unionization, and local economic zone policies. Tucker earned his Ph.D. in economics from Boston University and a B.A. in economics from Carleton College.
Johannes Schmieder
Johannes Schmieder is currently an associate professor in the Economics Department at Boston University. His research lies at the intersection between labor and public economics. In particular he has worked on how changes in firm structures due to vertical disintegration or domestic outsourcing have impacted labor market outcomes of workers. He has also studied the impact of Unemployment Insurance and other transfer policies on the job-search behavior of unemployed workers, the psychology of job search among the unemployed, and incorporating insights from behavioral economics into standard job search models. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.
Anna Salomons
Anna Salomons is Foundation Institute Gak professor of employment and inequality at Utrecht University’s School of Economics in the Netherlands, and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and Center for Economic Policy Research. Her research focuses on the labor market impacts of advancing technology, and she has provided policy advice to, among others, the European Commission and the Dutch government. Salomons received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Leuven in Belgium.
Bryan Seegmiller
Bryan Seegmiller is a Ph.D. candidate in financial economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. His primary research interests are in the economics of labor and financial markets. His research examines how technological change and innovation have impacted labor compensation, employment, and the nature of work performed. He also studies the interplay between labor market frictions and financial markets. In a secondary area of research, he has looked at how institutional investors and financial frictions impact stock price movements. Seegmiller received his B.S. in economics and mathematics from Brigham Young University.
Gaston Illanes
Gaston Illanes is an assistant professor of economics at Northwestern University. His research focuses on the industrial organization of financial markets and on regulation. He is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Illanes received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his M.A. and B.A. in economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Nathan Miller
Nathan Miller is the Saleh Romeih associate professor at the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business. His research covers topics in industrial organization and antitrust economics, with a recent focus on collusion and the competitive effects of mergers. He has published articles in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, and the RAND Journal of Economics, among other journals. Prior to joining Georgetown University, Miller served as an economist at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he provided economic analysis for antitrust investigations. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. from the University of Virginia.
Vivek Bhattacharya
Vivek Bhattacharya is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on industrial organization and regulation, with an emphasis on auctions and financial markets. Bhattacharya received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.S. in economics and physics from Duke University.
Paul Mohnen
Paul Mohnen is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He was previously a postdoctoral research fellow at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan, where he was part of the Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database Project. His research focuses on issues related to the labor market, aging, and economic mobility. He completed his Ph.D. in economics at Northwestern University, and his undergraduate degree in econometrics and operations research at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
Steve Viscelli
Steve Viscelli is a senior fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Viscelli is a sociologist who studies work, automation, energy, and related policy. His first book, The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream (University of California Press, 2016), explains how deregulation of trucking and the rise of independent contracting turned trucking from one of the best blue-collar jobs in the United States into one of the toughest. His current research looks at the impact of self-driving trucks on truckers and e-commerce on last-mile delivery workers. Viscelli earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Indiana University, a M.A. in anthropology from Syracuse University, and a B.A. in philosophy from Colgate University.