Wertheim Fellow 9/2017-12/2017 Research on socio-legal interrelations of intimate labor and the law
Dr Einat Albin is an Assistant Professor at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law since 2011. She works on the theory of labor and employment law and is... Read more about Einat Albin
Gokhan Aykac received his PhD in Economics from Gazi University. He is a research associate in Department of Economics, Gazi University and a post-doctoral research fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard University for the academic year 2016 – 2017 as Wertheim Fellow.... Read more about Gokhan Aykac
Wertheim Fellow Research on Labor Law and Equality
Dr. Hande Bahar Aykac received the bachelor’s degree in law from Ankara University Law Faculty, Ankara, Turkey in 2000. After completing her internship at the... Read more about Hande Bahar Aykac
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
Lingli Chen is a visiting scholar in the Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard University for one year from March 2017 to March 2018. She did undergraduate... Read more about Lingli Chen
LWP Fellow Research on Industrial Relations and Poverty
Zhenhe Chi is an associate professor of Labor Economics and he works for China Institute of Industrial Relations in Beijing, China. He is currently visiting... Read more about Zhenhe Chi
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
LWP Fellow Research on Skills of Chinese Migrant Workers
Xuwen Gao is a PhD candidate in School of Management at Zhejiang University. She is currently a LWP fellow of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard... Read more about Xuwen Gao
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.... Read more about Terri Gerstein
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
LWP Fellow Research on AI/robotics and infrastructure
Dr. Xi (Sisi) Hu is a post-doctoral fellow of the LWP at Harvard Law School. Prior to joining the LWP, Xi worked on infrastructure modelling in China in...
LWP Fellow 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
LWP Fellow Research on the impact of technological advances on workplace productivity
Dr. Ashley Nunes studies regulatory policy at MIT's Center for Transportation & Logistics. His work examines how technological advances affect workforce productivity particularly in economically critical industries. He has previously written for the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and NPR. among others. Dr. Nunes earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign where his research examined the scientific merit of raising retirement ages.... Read more about Ashley Nunes
