Publications

• "Product Markets and Paychecks: Deregulation's Effect on the Compensation Structure in Banking" (Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January 2007) [Working Paper]

Papers under Review

• "Why Are College Graduates More Responsive to Distant Labor Market Opportunities?"  (May 2006) [PDF] ; Previously titled "Making Their Own Luck: Educational Differences in the Migration Response of Young Workers to Local Labor Market Conditions"

• "Labor Reallocation over the Business Cycle: New Evidence from Internal Migration " Joint with Raven Saks.   (Nov 2007) [PDF]

• "Field Perspectives on the Causes of Low Employment among Less Skilled Black Men" (September 2007) [PDF] [Employer Survey] [Employee Survey ]

• "The Impact of College Education on Geographic Mobility" Joint with Ofer Malamud.  (Mar 2008) [PDF]

Projects in Progress and Working Papers

• Mechanisms at work in the education-migration relationship (with Ofer Malamud)
• Cohort size effects across genders and racial groups
• The impact of pre-employment drug testing on black male employment rates

Last updated on 7-mar-08