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 12:00 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: 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, Associate 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]
	Justin McCrary, Professor of Law Justin McCrary joined the Berkeley faculty in 2008 as assistant professor of law. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge), and a Fellow of the Criminal Justice Research Program, Institute for Legal Studies (Berkeley). His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, an the National Institute of Health. [Read More]
	Michael Reich, Professor of Economics Michael Reich is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard. 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. [Read More]
	Patrick Kline, Assistant 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 was educated at Harvard University, where he received his PhD in 2002, the same year he joined UC Berkeley as an assistant professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008. He is a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship for the years 2008-2010 and has been Principal Investigator for an NSF grant. [Read More]
	Christopher Walters, Assistant Professor of Economics Christopher Walters joined the economics department as an assistant professor after receiving his PhD in economics from MIT in 2013. He received a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in 2012. In 2008, he graduated with a BA in eco­nom­ics and phi­los­o­phy from the University of Virginia and received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. [Read More]
	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]