The Work Goes On: An Oral History of Industrial Relations and Labor Economics with Princeton’s Orley Ashenfelter

By Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University

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Episode Date
Barry Chiswick on immigration, the American Jewish experience, and how to measure discrimination
Apr 01, 2024
Robert Flanagan on boosting union membership and why orchestras struggle financially
Mar 18, 2024
Bob Gregory on how polio changed his life–and inspired him as a student
Mar 04, 2024
Stephen Nickell on his journey from math teacher to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee
Feb 19, 2024
Robert Willis on jumping ship from trade to study fertility and demographics
Feb 05, 2024
Robert Pollak on the “two career problem” and modeling the economics of the family
Dec 04, 2023
Bruno Contini on life under Mussolini and the Italian labor market today
Nov 20, 2023
Myra Strober on women, work, and feminist economics
Nov 06, 2023
Ray Marshall on his path from an orphanage in Mississippi to U.S. Secretary of Labor
Oct 23, 2023
W. Craig Riddell on his Path from the Canadian Navy to Labor Economics
Oct 10, 2023
Thomas Kochan on the United Auto Workers strike and the need for a new social contract at work
Sep 25, 2023
Bob Hall on his role in the Brookings Papers, the NBER Business Cycle Dating committee, and more
Sep 11, 2023
Michael Piore on internal labor markets, immigration, innovation, and more
Jun 26, 2023
Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn on labor market inequalities and the future of the gender wage gap
May 30, 2023
John Pencavel on growing up in London’s West End and his sympathy for workers and unions
May 15, 2023
Reuben Gronau on his many contributions to Israeli economic policy
May 01, 2023
James Heckman on his early academic career and the work that makes him proud
Apr 17, 2023
Daniel Hamermesh on the overhyped four-day work week and a lifetime of labor economics research
Apr 03, 2023
Frank Stafford on the origins of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
Mar 20, 2023
Robert Solow on growing up in Brooklyn, fighting Nazis, and everything that came after
Mar 04, 2023
Richard Freeman on the state of unions in the U.S., why few Americans pursue STEM degrees, and more.
Feb 17, 2023
Robert McKersie on his lifelong study of labor negotiations and the state of unions today
Feb 05, 2023
Claudia Goldin on her journey from the Bronx to Harvard–with groundbreaking research in between
Jan 23, 2023
Richard Layard on his life in public service and his pioneering research on happiness
Jan 08, 2023
Labor Economics and the Economics of Higher Education: A Conversation with Ronald Ehrenberg
Dec 19, 2022
Gender Differences in Worker Pay: A Conversation with Ronald Oaxaca
Dec 05, 2022