About the Center

The Center for Labor Economics (CLE) was established in July 1997 to promote research in labor market issues and policies. The CLE supports two weekly seminars: an informal Labor Lunch Series (held most Fridays for Fall and Spring from 12:00pm to 1:00 pm) and the Labor Seminar (held Thursdays during the school term from 2:00 to 4:00 pm). The CLE also sponsors graduate students and visiting research scholars, and publishes a working paper series for the early dissemination of faculty and graduate student research.

New Announcement: Professor David Card wins the 2021 Nobel Memorial prize in Economic Sciences - article

External Research Data Center (FDZ) Location at UC Berkeley's Center for Labor Economics.The Center for Labor Economics is pleased to announce the opening of an external Research Data Center (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). The FDZ facilitates access to micro data on the labor market for non-commercial empirical research. Originally located at the Institute of Employment Research in Nuremberg, Germany, an additional access point for FDZ data has been opened at the University of California at Berkeley.

For more information on the kind of data available for research please refer here: Accessing German Social Security Records Through the Research Data Center (FDZ) of the BA at IAB.

More information on how to apply for access to the data can be found here: Remote Data Access.
The application form can be found here.
The application instruction can be found here.
Once approval is granted from the FDZ, please print out and sign the Confidentiality Agreement and return to Camille Fernandez at 523 Evans Hall to complete the process.

Faculty Associates

	David Card (Director), Professor of Economics David Card is the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests include immigration, wages, education, and health insurance. [Read More]
	Edward Miguel, Professor of Economics Edward Miguel is the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics and Faculty Director of the Center for Effective Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 2000. He earned his B.S. degrees in both Economics and Mathematics from MIT, and received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow. [Read More]
	Emmanuel Saez, Professor of Economics Emmanuel Saez is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Equitable Growth at the University of California Berkeley. His research focuses on tax policy and inequality both from theoretical and empirical perspectives. Jointly with Thomas Piketty, he has constructed long-run historical series of income inequality in the United States that have been widely discussed in the public debate. [Read More]
	Enrico Moretti, Professor of Economics Enrico Moretti is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley where he holds the Michael Peevey and Donald Vial Career Development Chair in Labor Economics. He is the Director of the Urbanization Program at the International Growth Centre (London School of Economics) and Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. [Read More]
	Frederico Finan, Associate Professor of Economics Frederico Finan joined the department in 2009 as an assistant professor. He received his PhD in Agriculture and Resource Economics from UC-Berkeley in 2006. Prior to joining the department, Professor Finan was an assistant professor of economics at UCLA. [Read More]
	Jesse Rothstein, Professor of Public Policy and Economics Jesse Rothstein is a public and labor economist. His research focuses on education and tax policy, and particularly on the way that public institutions ameliorate or reinforce the effects of children’s families on their academic and economic outcomes. Much of his research examines racial gaps in educational progress. [Read More]
	Michael Reich, Professor of Economics Michael Reich is Professor of the Graduate School and Co-Chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California at Berkeley. His research publications cover numerous areas of labor economics and political economy, including the economics of racial inequality, the analysis of labor market segmentation, historical stages in U.S. labor markets and social structures of accumulation, high performance workplaces, union-management cooperation and Japanese labor-management systems. His recent research focuses on minimum wages and pay in the gig economy. [Read More]
	Patrick Kline, Professor of Economics Patrick Kline joined the department in 2008 as an assistant professor after having been on the faculty at Yale University for a year. Professor Kline received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2007 and holds a Masters degree in Public Policy from the Ford School of Public Policy along with a Bachelors degree in Political Science from Reed College. [Read More]
	Stefano DellaVigna, Professor of Economics Stefano DellaVigna (2002 Ph.D., Harvard) is the Daniel Koshland, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in Behavioral Economics, including work on behavioral labor economics, for example on job search and on effort at the workplace. He has been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2008-10), a Distinguished Teaching Award winner (2008), and a co-editor of the American Economic Review (2017 to the present).
	Christopher Walters, Associate Professor of Economics Christopher Walters joined the Berkeley faculty as an assistant professor in 2013 after completing a PhD in economics at MIT. Walters is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Faculty Affiliate at the MIT School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative (SEII) and an affiliate of J-PAL North America. His research focuses on the topics in labor economics and the economics of education, including early childhood programs, school effectiveness, and labor market discrimination.
	Hilary Hoynes, Professor of Public Policy and Economics Hilary Hoynes is a Professor of Public Policy and Economics and holds the Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities. She is the co-editor of the leading journal in economics, American Economic Review. Hoynes received her undergraduate degree from Colby College and her PhD from Stanford University. [Read More]
	Conrad Miller, Assistant Professor of Economics Conrad Miller joined the economics department as an assistant professor after receiving his PhD in economics from MIT in 2014. In 2009, he graduated with a BA in Economics and a BA in Math from Stanford. [Read More]
	Supreet Kaur, Assistant Professor of Economics Supreet Kaur is a development economist, with overlap in work with behavioral and labor economics. The first strand of her research focuses on the functioning of labor markets in poor countries. [Read More]
	Sydnee Caldwell, Assistant Professor of Economics Sydnee Caldwell is a labor and personnel economist. Professor Caldwell received her PhD from MIT in 2019 and her BA from UC Berkeley in 2012.
	Ellora Derenoncourt, Assistant Professor of Economics Ellora Derenoncourt is a labor economist and economic historian whose work focuses on the long-run evolution of US racial inequality and on institutions shaping the low-wage labor market. Dr. Derenoncourt received her PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2019, her MSc in Human Geography from the London School of Economics, and her A.B. at Harvard University.
	Claire Montialoux, Assistant Professor of Public Policy Claire Montialoux is an assistant professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy. She is an economist whose research interests include labor economics, public finance and inequality. Her research focuses on how labor market policies affect wage inequality. She received her PhD in Economics from CREST in 2019, and her Msc in Statistics from ENSAE-Paristech.