Senior Research Associate Research on Labor Markets
Erling Barth is Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research in Oslo and Professor II at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo, affiliated with ESOP. His PhD is from the Department of Economics at the University of Oslo. He is Wertheim Fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard University, Research Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) at Cambridge, MA, and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour, IZA, in Bonn.
His research interests include technological change and its effects on the labor market, the impact of labor market institutions, inequality and the wage structure, employment, the economics of the welfare state, gender wage differentials, immigration, ownership, labor mobility, and firms’ behavior.... Read more about Erling Barth
Larry W. Beeferman received a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School and a doctorate in applied physics from Harvard University. He joined the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School in 2004 to help establish the Pensions and Capital Stewardship Project.... Read more about Larry Beeferman
Wertheim Fellow Research on Misclassification and Underground Economy
Mark Erlich retired as Executive Secretary-Treasurer (EST) of the New England Regional Council of Carpenters, a 19,000 member organization in March 2017. A member of Carpenters Local 40 since 1975, he worked at his craft as an apprentice, journeyman, foreman, and superintendent. While EST, Erlich chaired the New England Carpenters Benefits Funds and the New England Carpenters Training Fund. He was a Vice-President of the Mass AFL-CIO and Mass Building Trades. He continues to serve as a member on the Boston Zoning Board of Appeals, MassINC board, and the Federal Reserve Advisory Council.... Read more about Mark Erlich
Director, State and Local Enforcement Project LWP Fellow Research on Labor Standards Enforcement
Terri Gerstein is the Director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program, and also a Fellow in the Program. She recently completed an Open Society Foundations Leadership in Government fellowship. Previously, she worked for over 17 years enforcing labor laws in New York State, including as the Labor Bureau Chief for the New York State Attorney General’s Office, and as a Deputy Commissioner in the New York State Department of Labor. Before her government service, Terri was a nonprofit lawyer in Miami, Florida, where she represented immigrant workers and also co-hosted a Spanish language radio show on workers’ rights.
Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Guardian, and The Hill, among others; a complete listing can be found here. She has also appeared on Democracy Now, Univision and Telemundo. She’s a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
LWP Fellow Research on History of Industrial Relations
Dr Hogan conducts research into the implications of new and more established media for the politics and processes of organization. He has published widely on... Read more about John Hogan
Program Fellow of the LWP Research on Technological and Climate Disruptions on Labor
Xi's research at the LWP is on understanding the impact of global disruptions (climate change/digital transformation/Covid) on labor. Currently she’s focused on two projects: one on clinician burnout and turnover, the other on the impact of climate change on global supply chain. Prior to joining the LWP, Xi worked as a consultant for numerous organisations, including the Latin American Energy Organisation (OLADE), International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), UK-India Business Council, and Legal & General Investment Management. She is the co-founder of the Oxford International Infrastructure Consortium (OXIIC), whose aim is to facilitate communication and collaboration on infrastructure between academics, policymakers, and practitioners worldwide. She is also a co-author of "The Self We Choose (我们选择的自己)", a book published in Chinese that features the life stories of scientists from the largest ever all-women expedition to Antarctica. Xi holds a DPhil (PhD) from the University of Oxford, an MSc in Environmental Economics and Climate Change, and a BSc in Environmental Policy with Economics from the London School of Economics.
Senior Research Associate Research on the Impact of Infrastructure
Jiashun Huang is LWP Fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School. He is a PhD Candidate at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He has... Read more about Jiashun Huang
After completing a PhD in Sociology at the University of Michigan in 1984 with a dissertation on auto workers, Linda Kaboolian taught public policy for the next thirty years at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.... Read more about Linda Kaboolian
Nonresident LWP/Wertheim Fellow Research on AI/robots and Jobs
Emran Qureshi is a Wertheim Fellow at the Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, and a past Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy,... Read more about Emran Qureshi
Dora Sari has nearly ten years of work experience on the labour field, with a focus on collective labour rights and relations. She has a background in international and national labour law and is currently pursuing her PhD in political science at the University of Geneva.... Read more about Dora Sari
LWP Fellow Research on Economic Transition and Job Creation in China
Yu Shen is a PhD candidate of Economics at Renmin University of China. She is a visiting scholar at Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard Law School for the... Read more about Yu Shen
Martina Viarengo is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies of Geneva. She is... Read more about Martina Viarengo
Dr Allan Wain’s research interests include the meaning, relevance, and application of infrastructure to pension funds and to society, incorporating how infrastructure is informed by and is informing of societal values, employment opportunities, government policy, and market behaviour.... Read more about Allan Wain
09/2014-- PhD student in Intellectual Property Management School of Intellectual Property, Nanjing University of Science and Technology... Read more about Qingnan Xie