Truman Bewley on why some firms prefer to “get the misery out the door” instead of cutting pay
Andrew Zimbalist on the economics of baseball, mixed martial arts, and college sports
John Kennan on the cost of restricting immigration
V. Joseph Hotz on women’s labor supply & fertility and balancing data privacy & use
Solomon Polachek on why men and women have different wages via the human capital model
John Abowd on the AKM method and the importance of a ‘non-controversial’ U.S. Census
John Bound, a “latecomer” to economics, on the impact of disability on labor force activity
Richard Murnane on the importance of quality education for upward mobility
Eric Hanushek on what test scores indicate about teacher effectiveness and national growth, and more
Judy Gueron on "never quitting" as a female economist and her groundbreaking work at MDRC
Morris Kleiner on the public policy effects of his work on labor migration & occupational licensing
Charles Brown on pay gaps, unions, productivity, and the firing of the BLS Commissioner
William B. Gould IV on chairing the NLRB & honoring his great-grandfather, a black Civil War sailor
Michael Moskow on his path from Paterson, NJ to “…one of the best jobs you can have in Washington”
Gavin Wright on the Civil Rights Revolution through the eyes of an economic historian
Heidi Hartmann on equal pay, family leave, and gender equity in the field of Economics
Michael Reich on how political polarization has impacted debate on the minimum wage
Harry Katz on his push for a more cooperative environment in labor-management relationships
Henry Farber on his path from Teamster to one of the preeminent researchers of labor economics
George Borjas on his journey from Cuba to Harvard and his work on the “hot” topic of immigration
Robert Moffitt on his “rewarding” career integrating economics, sociology and public policy
Samuel Bowles on his deep interest in the causes of inequality & his work to transform economics
Marjorie McElroy on a long academic career and navigating the economics profession as a woman
Orley Ashenfelter on the “irresistible” pull of policy evaluation & why the IR Section is so special
Ernst Stromsdorfer on studying vocational training in academia, government, and the private sector
David Lewin on employee voice in a capitalist economy and the re-emergence of unionization
Robert Michael on collecting specialized data to inform public policy
Barry Chiswick on immigration, the American Jewish experience, and how to measure discrimination
Robert Flanagan on boosting union membership and why orchestras struggle financially
Bob Gregory on how polio changed his life–and inspired him as a student
Stephen Nickell on his journey from math teacher to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee
Robert Willis on jumping ship from trade to study fertility and demographics
Robert Pollak on the “two career problem” and modeling the economics of the family
Bruno Contini on life under Mussolini and the Italian labor market today
Myra Strober on women, work, and feminist economics
Ray Marshall on his path from an orphanage in Mississippi to U.S. Secretary of Labor
W. Craig Riddell on his Path from the Canadian Navy to Labor Economics
Thomas Kochan on the United Auto Workers strike and the need for a new social contract at work
Bob Hall on his role in the Brookings Papers, the NBER Business Cycle Dating committee, and more
Michael Piore on internal labor markets, immigration, innovation, and more
Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn on labor market inequalities and the future of the gender wage gap
John Pencavel on growing up in London’s West End and his sympathy for workers and unions
Reuben Gronau on his many contributions to Israeli economic policy
James Heckman on his early academic career and the work that makes him proud
Daniel Hamermesh on the overhyped four-day work week and a lifetime of labor economics research
Frank Stafford on the origins of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
Robert Solow on growing up in Brooklyn, fighting Nazis, and everything that came after
Richard Freeman on the state of unions in the U.S., why few Americans pursue STEM degrees, and more.
Robert McKersie on his lifelong study of labor negotiations and the state of unions today
Claudia Goldin on her journey from the Bronx to Harvard–with groundbreaking research in between
Richard Layard on his life in public service and his pioneering research on happiness
Labor Economics and the Economics of Higher Education: A Conversation with Ronald Ehrenberg
Gender Differences in Worker Pay: A Conversation with Ronald Oaxaca