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
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
Ms.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 Labor unions and inequality: Do unions promote more equal societies?
Phillippe Scrimger joined Harvard Law School's Labor and Worklife Program as a postdoctoral fellow in October 2018, after finishing his doctoral dissertation at the University of Montreal’s School of Industrial Relations.... Read more about Phillippe Scrimger
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
