Benjamin Schoefer
Associate Professor (with tenure)
Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
Associate Editor, Journal of Monetary Economics
NBER Research Associate (Economic Fluctuations & Growth, Monetary,
Public, Labor), CEPR
Research Affiliate (Monetary Economics and Fluctuations, Labour, Public), IZA Research Fellow, CESifo
Affiliate Member, IWH Halle Research Fellow (Senior Researcher)
schoefer@berkeley.edu
Twitter account (occasional news about my research)
Job Market Candidates 2022/23
I am supporting (writing letters for) two excellent job market candidates in 2022/23. In alphabetical order, they are:
Pauline Carry
CREST (ENSAE - Ecole Polytechnique)
Fields: labor and macro
Job market paper: "The Effects of the Legal Minimum Working Time on Workers, Firms and the Labor Market"
Vitaliia Yaremko
UC Berkeley
Fields: macro, labor, comparative, political economics
Job market paper: "The Long-Term Consequences of Blacklisting: Evidence From the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33"
Please email me for any questions.
Research Papers
The
Financial Channel of Wage Rigidity
Working paper, April 2022 (substantially revised update of previous version, the
2015 dissertation chapter)
Marginal
Revolution summary, Slides
Voice
at Work
American Economic Journal: Applied, Revise and Resubmit, Jarkko Harju and Simon Jäger
VOX
summary,
Slides
Worker Beliefs About Outside Options
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Conditionally Accepted, with Simon Jäger, Christopher Roth and Nina Roussille
Slides, EconImate Video Summary
Reservation
Raises: The Aggregate Labor Supply Curve at the Extensive Margin
Review
of Economic Studies, Accepted, with Preston Mui
Slides
(outdated)
A
Congestion Theory of Unemployment Fluctuations
American
Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Forthcoming,
with Yusuf Mercan and Petr Sedlacek
Publication
Slides
Productivity,
Place, and Plants
Review
of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming, with Oren
Ziv
Publication, Slides
(NBER Summer Institute)
The German Model of Industrial Relations: Balancing Flexibility and Collective Action
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 36(4), 2022,
with Simon Jäger and Shakked Noy
Publication
Marginal
Jobs and Job Surplus: A Test of the Efficiency of Separations
Review
of Economic Studies, Forthcoming, with Simon Jäger and Josef Zweimüller
Publication, Slides,
VOX summary
What
Does Codetermination Do?
ILR
Review, 75(4), 2022, with Shakked Noy and Simon Jäger
Publication,
Harvard
Law School Forum on Corporate Governance Summary
Paying
Outsourced Labor: Direct Evidence from Linked Temp Agency-Worker-Client Data
Review
of Economics and Statistics, 105(1), 2023, 206-216 with Andres Drenik, Simon
Jäger and Pascuel Plotkin
Publication,
VOX
summary
Hysteresis
from Employer Subsidies
Journal
of Public Economics, 200, 2021, 104459, with Emmanuel Saez and David Seim
Publication
Labor
in the Boardroom
Quarterly
Journal of Economics, 136(2), 2021, 669-725, Editor's Choice (lead article),
with Simon Jäger and Joerg Heining
Publication,
VOX
summary, NBER
Digest February 2020, Harvard
Law School Forum on Corporate Governance Summary, IZA
Newsroom Summary, EconImate
Video Summary
Wages
and the Value of Nonemployment
Quarterly
Journal of Economics, 135(4), 2020, 1905-1963, with Simon Jäger, Samuel Young
and Josef Zweimüller
Publication,
Slides
Jobs
and Matches: Quits, Replacement Hiring, and Vacancy Chains
American
Economic Review: Insights, 2(1), 2020, 101-124, with Yusuf Mercan
Publication,
Slides
Payroll
Taxes, Firm Behavior, and Rent Sharing: Evidence from a Young Workers' Tax Cut
in Sweden
American
Economic Review 109(5), 2019, 1717-1763, with Emmanuel Saez and David
Seim
Publication,
Online
Appendix, Slides,
Older
and Longer NBER WP Version, VOX
summary
Regulation
and Taxation: A Complementarity
Journal
of Comparative Economics 38.4 (2010): 381-94 (Undergraduate
Thesis)
Publication
Policy Papers and Other WritingCodetermination
and Power in the Workplace
Journal of Law and Political Economy 3.1 (2022), with Simon Jäger and Shakked Noy
Publication,
Economic Policy
Institute: Unequal Power
Project
Equitable
Wage Growth: Macroeconomic Perspectives
Invited book chapter, in: "Boosting Wages for U.S.
Workers in the New Economy"
(Washington Center for Equitable Growth/US Berkeley Institute for Research on
Labor and Employment 2021 Essay Series)
Web
version, Complete
book (PDF) Complete
book (web version)
Employment Adjustment and COVID: Some Thoughts
on Theory and Reality
Invited short talk connecting academic and policy
perspectives CEPR-IZA-OECD Workshop: Employment Support
Strategies during COVID-19 October 15, 2020
Slides
Teaching
Econ
202B: Macroeconomic Theory (mandatory first-year PhD course)
Econ 101B: Intermediate Macroeconomics (Math Intensive/Honors Track)
Econ 191: Topics in Economic Research
[Econ 236B: Macroeconomics (second-year field course) (not
currently)]
Econ 237: Macroeconomics Research Seminar
My
side project: I run the German Economic Policy Roundtable
(Wirtschaftspolitik-Diskussionsrunde). Most members are academics, policy
practitioners, journalists, think tank researchers. (German)
Twitter link for sign-up instructions here.
Journal of Law and Political Economy 3.1 (2022), with Simon Jäger and Shakked Noy
Publication, Economic Policy Institute: Unequal Power Project
Invited book chapter, in: "Boosting Wages for U.S. Workers in the New Economy" (Washington Center for Equitable Growth/US Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment 2021 Essay Series)
Web version, Complete book (PDF) Complete book (web version)
Econ 101B: Intermediate Macroeconomics (Math Intensive/Honors Track)
Econ 191: Topics in Economic Research
[Econ 236B: Macroeconomics (second-year field course) (not currently)]
Econ 237: Macroeconomics Research Seminar