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Search below to find IRLE staff researchers and faculty affiliates by area of expertise, department, and research center.

Catherine Albiston

Jackson H. Ralston Professor of Law, Professor of Sociology, & Faculty Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society

Law

Race & Ethnicity

Michael Anderson

Professor

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Early Childhood Education • Health Care • Public Policy

Abhay Aneja

Assistant Professor

Law

Criminal Justice • Poverty & Inequality • Race & Ethnicity

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Sarah F. Anzia

Associate Professor of Public Policy & Political Science

Goldman School of Public Policy, Political Science

Public Policy • Unions

Francisco Arzu

Co-Director, Green Economy Program

Labor Center

Green Economy • Unions

Maximilian Auffhammer

Professor of International Sustainable Development, Associate Dean

Agricultural and Resource Economics

California State Policy • Green Economy

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Lea J.E. Austin

Executive Director

Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Early Childhood Education • Race & Ethnicity

Sanchita Banerjee Saxena

Director, Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies & Executive Director, Institute for South Asia Studies

Haas School of Business

Gender • Global Labor • Low-Wage Work • Poverty & Inequality • Unions • Workers’ Rights

Cristina Banks

Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces & Senior Lecturer

Haas School of Business

Firms and Organizations

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Annette Bernhardt

Director, Technology and Work Program

Labor Center

Gig Economy • Global Labor • Immigration • Labor Markets • Low-Wage Work • Minimum Wage & Living Wage • Poverty & Inequality • Work & Technology

Irene Bloemraad

Professor, Thomas Garden Barnes Chair of Canadian Studies

Sociology

Immigration • Public Policy • Race & Ethnicity

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Travis J. Bristol

Assistant Professor

School of Education

Education • Gender • Poverty & Inequality • Race & Ethnicity

Tolani Britton

Assistant Professor

School of Education

Criminal Justice • Early Childhood Education • Poverty & Inequality • Race & Ethnicity

Erika Brown

Researcher

California Policy Lab

Health Care • Methods • Social Safety Net

Clair Brown

Professor Emerita of Economics & Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Society

Economics

California State Policy • Green Economy • Labor Markets • Public Policy • Work & Technology

Michael Burawoy

Professor

Sociology

Education • Global Labor • Higher Education • Unions

Sydnee Caldwell

Assistant Professor

Economics, Haas School of Business

Gender • Gig Economy • Labor Markets

David Card

Class of 1950 Professor of Economics

Economics

Education • Labor Markets

Karen Chapple

Professor Emerita

City & Regional Planning

California State Policy • Green Economy • Housing • Labor Markets • Poverty & Inequality

Jennifer A. Chatman

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management

Haas School of Business

Firms and Organizations • Gender

Abby Copeman Petig

Research Director

Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Early Childhood Education • Methods

Miranda Dietz

Research and Policy Associate

Labor Center

Global Labor • Health Care

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William H. Dow

Kaiser Permanente Endowed Chair in Health Policy Management

Public Health

Health Care • Social Safety Net

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Lauren B. Edelman

Agnes Roddy Robb Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology

Law

Firms and Organizations • Workers’ Rights

Pamela Egan

Director, Labor-Management Partnerships Program

Labor Center

Peter Evans

Professor Emeritus

Sociology

Global Labor

Avi Feller

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Statistics

Goldman School of Public Policy

Criminal Justice • Education

Anibel Ferus-Comelo

Director of Community-Engaged Academic Initiatives

Labor Center

Global Labor

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Brett Fischer

Postdoctoral Scholar

California Policy Lab

Criminal Justice • Education • Methods

Catherine Fisk

Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law & Faculty Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Work & the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology

Law

Gig Economy • Low-Wage Work • Minimum Wage & Living Wage • Poverty & Inequality • Unemployment • Unions • Workers’ Rights

Neil Fligstein

Class of 1939 Professor & Director of the Center for Culture, Organization, and Politics

Sociology

Firms and Organizations • Green Economy

Marion Fourcade

Professor of Sociology & Director of Social Science Matrix

Sociology

Education • Finance & Financial Reform • Work & Technology

Cybelle Fox

Professor and Department Chair

Sociology

Immigration • Public Policy • Race & Ethnicity • Social Safety Net

Paul J. Gertler

Li Ka Shing Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley Faculty Director, Institute of Business and Social Impact, & UC Berkeley Scientific Director, Center for Evaluation and Global Impact, UC Berkeley

Haas School of Business

Early Childhood Education • Education • Firms and Organizations • Health Care • Housing • Labor Markets • Public Finance • Public Policy • Retirement Security

Jessie HF Hammerling

Co-Director, Green Economy Program

Labor Center

Green Economy • Low-Wage Work • Work & Technology

David Harding

Professor, Faculty Director, Social Sciences D-Lab

Sociology

Criminal Justice • Education • Higher Education • Labor Markets • Poverty & Inequality

Heather A. Haveman

Professor

Sociology

Firms and Organizations • Gender • Labor Markets

Sara Hinkley

Policy Research Specialist

Labor Center

Low-Wage Work • Poverty & Inequality • Public Policy • Unions • Work & Technology

Seth M. Holmes

Chancellor's Professor in the Division of Society and Environment, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Anthropology, Public Health

Global Labor • Health Care • Immigration • Low-Wage Work • Poverty & Inequality • Race & Ethnicity • Workers’ Rights

Hilary Hoynes

Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities

Economics, Goldman School of Public Policy

Poverty & Inequality • Public Finance • Public Policy • Social Safety Net • Tax Policy

Ken Jacobs

Chair

Labor Center

Global Labor • Health Care • Low-Wage Work • Minimum Wage & Living Wage • Public Policy • Unions

Supreet Kaur

Assistant Professor

Economics

Labor Markets • Unemployment

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Erin M. Kerrison

Assistant Professor

School of Social Welfare

Criminal Justice • Race & Ethnicity

Yoonjeon Kim

Lead Research Analyst

Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Early Childhood Education • Education • Immigration • Methods

Patrick Kline

Professor

Economics

Firms and Organizations • Poverty & Inequality • Race & Ethnicity

Laura Kray

Professor, The Ned and Carol Spieker Chair in Leadership, Chair, Management of Organizations Group, & Faculty Director, Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership

Haas School of Business

Education • Gender • Higher Education

Lisa Kresge

Research and Policy Associate

Labor Center

Low-Wage Work • Unions • Work & Technology

Johanna Lacoe

Research Director

California Policy Lab

Criminal Justice • Education • Housing • Methods • Public Policy

Danya Lagos

Assistant Professor

Sociology

Gender

Michel Laguerre

Professor, Director of the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology

African American Studies & African Diaspora Studies

Global Labor • Work & Technology

Adam Leive

Assistant Professor

Goldman School of Public Policy

Health Care • Public Finance • Public Policy • Retirement Security • Social Safety Net

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David I. Levine

Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Chair in Business Administration & Chair, Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group

Haas School of Business

Firms and Organizations • Gender • Global Labor • Health Care • Work & Technology

Ethan A. Ligon

Professor

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Poverty & Inequality

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James R. Lincoln

Mitsubishi Chair in International Business and Finance Emeritus

Haas School of Business

Firms and Organizations • Work & Technology

Shelley Liu

Assistant Professor

Goldman School of Public Policy

Global Labor • Poverty & Inequality • Public Policy

Enrique Lopezlira

Director, Low-Wage Work Program

Labor Center

Low-Wage Work • Race & Ethnicity

Laurel Lucia

Director, Health Care Program

Labor Center

Health Care

Jeremy R. Magruder

Professor

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Global Labor • Minimum Wage & Living Wage

Aprajit Mahajan

Associate Professor

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Firms and Organizations • Global Labor • Poverty & Inequality • Public Finance • Public Policy

Jane McAlevey

Senior Policy Fellow

Labor Center

Firms and Organizations • Health Care • Unions

Caitlin McLean

Director of Multi-State and International Programs

Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Early Childhood Education • Race & Ethnicity

Conrad Miller

Associate Professor

Haas School of Business

Criminal Justice • Firms and Organizations • Labor Markets • Race & Ethnicity

Claire Montialoux

Assistant Professor

Goldman School of Public Policy

Gender • Labor Markets • Low-Wage Work • Poverty & Inequality • Public Policy • Race & Ethnicity

Elena Montoya

Senior Research and Policy Associate

Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Early Childhood Education

Enrico Moretti

Michael Peevey and Donald Vial Professor of Economics & Professor of Business Administration

Economics, Haas School of Business

Gig Economy • Global Labor • Housing • Labor Markets • Public Policy • Tax Policy

Christopher Muller

Associate Professor

Sociology

Criminal Justice • Labor Markets • Poverty & Inequality • Race & Ethnicity • Unemployment

Brenda Muñoz

Deputy Chair

Labor Center

Unions

Dara O’Rourke

Associate Professor

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

Firms and Organizations • Global Labor • Green Economy

Seema Patel

Practitioner in Residence

Labor Center

Low-Wage Work

Ricardo Perez-Truglia

https://haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/ricardo-perez-truglia/

Haas School of Business

Gender • Public Finance • Tax Policy

Jeffrey Perloff

Professor

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Firms and Organizations • Immigration • Labor Markets • Low-Wage Work • Work & Technology

Aruna Ranganathan

Associate Professor

Haas School of Business

Firms and Organizations • Immigration • Labor Markets • Low-Wage Work • Work & Technology

Steven Raphael

IRLE Director & Professor and James D. Marver Chair in Public Policy

Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Criminal Justice • Housing • Labor Markets • Low-Wage Work

Michael Reich

Chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics & Professor of Economics

Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics

Gig Economy • Global Labor • Minimum Wage & Living Wage • Poverty & Inequality • Race & Ethnicity

Nari Rhee

Director, Retirement Security Program

Labor Center

Retirement Security

Victoria Robinson

Continuing Lecturer & American Cultures Program Director

Ethnic Studies

Criminal Justice • Education • Higher Education • Race & Ethnicity

Jesse Rothstein

California Policy Lab Faculty Director & Professor of Public Policy and Economics

California Policy Lab

Education • Finance & Financial Reform • Global Labor • Methods • Tax Policy • Unemployment

Emmanuel Saez

Professor of Economics & Director of the Center for Equitable Growth

Economics

Poverty & Inequality • Tax Policy

James Sallee

Associate Professor

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Green Economy • Public Finance • Public Policy

Marisa Schlieber

Senior Research and Policy Associate

Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Early Childhood Education

Benjamin Schoefer

Associate Professor

Economics

Firms and Organizations • Global Labor • Labor Markets • Low-Wage Work • Public Policy • Recession • Unemployment • Unions • Workers’ Rights

Juliana Schroeder

Assistant Professor

Haas School of Business

Firms and Organizations • Work & Technology

Alissa Skog

Researcher

California Policy Lab

Criminal Justice • Health Care • Methods • Social Safety Net

Sameer Srivastava

Ewald T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy; Co-Director, Computational Culture Lab; & Co-Director, Berkeley Culture Center