Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Work and Organizations department at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. She completed her Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University, with a specialization in labor economics and public finance. She also received her B.A. in both public policy and economics from Stanford University. Her research investigates the provision of benefits and programs by employers, including flexible work practices, work-family policies, human capital investment, and retirement plans, and the incentives they create for workers. She seeks to advance a multidisciplinary, multi-method research agenda for studying the effects of workplace practices on the careers of workers. Her research has been published in leading journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Human Resources, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and Industrial Relations.

Costas Meghir is Full Professor at Yale University. His primary interests are in labor economics, the economics of education, and development economics.

Simon Mongey is a macroeconomist whose interest is in labor economics and the effect of the competitive structure of markets on macroeconomic outcomes. In work published recently in the American Economic Review, he presents a new model of firm hiring that accounts for part of the slow recovery from the 2008 recession. His most recent work considers the effects of market concentration in labor markets via mergers on employment and wages, and the role of large firms in product pricing. He completed his Ph.D. in Economics at New York University and was a junior scholar in economic research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Originally from Australia, he completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Melbourne and the University of Western Australia.

Giuseppe Moscarini is Professor at Yale University. His research interests are macroeconomics, labor markets, job search, economics of information.

Ayşegül Şahin is the Richard J. Gonzalez Regents Chair in Economics at the University of Texas at Austin and a consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. She is also a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Economic Fluctuations and Growth and Monetary Economics groups. Before joining the University of Texas’s faculty, she spent 14 years working in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Research Department.

She is interested primarily in macro-labor topics. Her research has concerned issues like labor-force participation dynamics, gender disparities in labor-market outcomes, and estimation of the natural rate of unemployment. She received a B.S. and M.S. from Bilkent University and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester.

Her work has appeared in journals such as the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Monetary Economics. Her research has also been covered in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Economist.

Henry Siu is Professor in Economics and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a macroeconomist whose research focuses on business cycles and the consequences of macroeconomic forces on the labour market. He has spent time as a visiting researcher at the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago, Minneapolis, and St. Louis, the Reserve Bank of Australia, and the Bank of Canada. He is also the inaugural recipient of the Bank of Canada Governor’s Award in recognition of his contribution to macroeconomic research.