CV

View detailed CV (last updated: November 2023)

Current Position:

• Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 2024-present

Previous Positions:

• Lead Economist, Labor Markets, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau, 2010-2024
• Senior Economist, White House Council of Economic Advisors, 2022-2023 (on detail)
• Assistant Center Chief (acting), Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD), U.S. Census Bureau, 2018-2019
• Economist, Office of Tax Policy, U.S. Treasury Department, 2008-2010
• Economist, Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD), U.S. Census Bureau, 2002-2008

Publications:

• “Early Career Paths for Economists inside and outside of Academia” with Lucia Foster and Dani Sandler. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 37(4):231-50, 2023.
• “Employment and Earnings for Federal Government Economists: Empirical Evidence by Gender and Race” with Lucia Foster, Julia Manzella, and Dani Sandler. American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 110: 210-14, 2020. 
• “Cyclical Job Ladders by Firm Size and Firm Wage,” with John Haltiwanger, Henry Hyatt, and Lisa Kahn. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 10(2): 52-85, 2018.
• “Who Moves Up the Job Ladder?” with John Haltiwanger and Henry Hyatt. Journal of Labor Economics, 36(S1): S301-S336, 2018.
• “Interstate Migration and Employer-to-Employer Transitions in the U.S.: New Evidence from Administrative Records Data,” with Henry Hyatt, Ken Ueda, and Alex Zhang. Demography, 55(6): 2161-2180, 2018.
• “The Promise and Potential of Linked Employer-Employee Data for Entrepreneurship Research,” with Christopher Goetz, Henry Hyatt, and Kristin Sandusky. In Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges, Haltiwanger, Hurst, Miranda, and Schoar, editors, 2015.
• “Job-to-Job Flows in the Great Recession,” with Henry Hyatt. American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 102(3): 580-583, 2012.
• “Employer-to-Employer Flows in the United States: Estimates Using Linked Employer-Employee Data,” with Melissa Bjelland, Bruce Fallick, and John Haltiwanger. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 29 (4): 493-505, 2011. 
• “The Dynamics of Worker Reallocation within and across Industries,” with Amos Golan and Julia Lane. Economica, 74 (293): 1-20, 2007.
• “Firms that Hire and Advance Low Earners: A Closer Look” with Julia Lane; in Andersson, Holzer, and Lane, Moving Up or Moving On: Who Advances in the Low-Wage Labor Market?  Russell Sage Foundation, 2005.

Working and Technical Papers:

• “Older workers, retirements, and macroeconomic shocks.” Wharton Pension Research Council Working Paper. August 2022.
• “Diversity and labor market outcomes in the economics profession.” with Lucia Foster and Dani Sandler. CES Working Paper No 22-26. July 2022
• “Job Displacement and Job Mobility: The Role of Joblessness” with Bruce Fallick, John Haltiwanger, and Matt Staiger. NBER Working Paper 29187. August 2021.
• “Cyclical Worker Flows: Cleansing vs. Sullying” with John Haltiwanger, Henry Hyatt, and Matt Staiger.  NBER Working Paper 28802. May 2021.
• “Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in the United States: New Evidence from Worker-Firm Linked Data,” with Andre Kurmann. CES Working Paper 2019-07.
• “Job-to-Job Flows: New Labor Market Statistics from Linked Employer-Employee Data,” with Henry Hyatt, Kevin McKinney, Stephen Tibbets, and Doug Walton.  2014 Joint Statistical Meetings Papers and Proceedings.
• “Firm Age and Size in the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Data,” with John Haltiwanger, Henry Hyatt, Liliana Sousa, and Stephen Tibbets. CES Working Paper 2014-16.
• “Job-to-Job Flows and the Business Cycle,” with Henry Hyatt.  CES Working Paper 2012-04.
• “Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1991-2003: Preliminary Evidence from LEHD data,” with Robert Moffitt and Peter Gottschalk.  2008. Boston College Working Paper.

Reports:

• “Initial Impact of COVID-19 on Travel, Tourism, and Outdoor Recreation” America Counts, June 23, 2021.
• “How Do Recent Veterans Fare in the Labor Market?” America Counts, July 8, 2020.
• “Where Did All the Construction Workers Go?” with Hubert Janicki, Census Research Matters Blog, October 16, 2015.
• “Job Creation, Worker Churning, and Wages at Young Businesses,” with John Haltiwanger, Henry Hyatt, and Liliana Sousa, Kauffman Foundation, 2012.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Economics, Virginia Tech
• B.A. in Social Science, Bard College

Professional Organizations/Service:

• NBER Conference on Research in Income and Wealth (elected member)
• National Science Foundation (NSF), Data Infrastructure and Innovation Grants Program, panelist, 2012; NSF: Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, expert panelist, 2013. Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Inequality Research Grants Program, Reviewer, 2015.
• Referee: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Review of Economic Dynamics