Labor Working Group

Purpose

We are a University of Minnesota-wide working group for faculty, staff, and students doing research in labor studies, particularly in the areas of labor economics, personnel economics, organizational economics, labor relations, economic demography, and labor and development. Scholars in other disciplines working on labor issues (e.g. sociology or law) are also welcome. 

The goals of this group are to: 

• Share announcements of labor-related talks by seminar speakers who are hosted by working group members' home departments

• Organize informal, ad hoc seminars by working group members and their guests

• Serve as a reference of who at the University is working on related labor issues (e.g. for student committees, get-togethers, etc)

• Serving the vitality of labor studies at the University of Minnesota

Our listserv is LWG@umn.edu. To join or post, e-mail me at bensona@umn.edu. 

Posted talks 2023-2024 (TBA)

• Christina Brown, Univ of Chicago, is speaking at APEC Friday May 15. 10:30 - 12:00 noon Ruttan 119. 

Faculty on the LWG

Applied Economics

• Charlotte Ambrozek

• Caroline Carlin

• Elizabeth Davis

• Jason Kerwin

• Joseph Ritter

Carlson School of Management

• Moshe Barach

• Avner Ben-Ner

• Alan Benson

• John Budd

• John Fossum

• Thomas Helgerman

• Cathy Lu

• Colleen Manchester

• Mahmood Zaidi

Economics

• Thomas Holmes

• Jeremy Lise

• Joseph Mullins

Humphrey School of Public Affairs

• Ragui Assaad

• Maria Hanratty

• Janna Johnson

• Morris Kleiner

• Debroah Levison

• Judy Temple

Other affiliations

• Tom Van Heuvelen (Sociology)

• Roger Feldman (Public Health)

• Aaron Sojourner (Upjohn Institute)

• Ayushi Narayan (Minneapolis Fed)

• Alex Albright (Minneapolis Fed)

• Liz Engle (Macalester)

• Matthew Bodie (Law)

• Charlotte Garden (Law)

• Ethan Krohn (Census and Fed)