Professor Matthew Freedman is a labor economist in the ILR School whose research revolves around job mobility and earnings dynamics within and between industries and geographic locations. Professor Freedman holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland-College Park.
Published Papers
Lost Jobs and Health Insurance: An Analysis of the Impact of Employment Volatility on Firm-Provided Health Insurance Coverage (with Fredrik Andersson, Iben Bolvig, and Julia Lane), Applied Economics (2010)
It is an established fact that there are high levels of employment volatility in the...
Reaching for the Stars: Who Pays for Talent in Innovative Industries? (with Fredrik Andersson, John Haltiwanger, Julia Lane, and Kathryn Shaw), The Economic Journal (2009)
Innovative firms need to hire and motivate highly talented workers. This article connects the potential...
Product Market Competition and Human Resource Practices in the Retail Food Sector (with Elizabeth Davis, Julia Lane, Brian McCall, Nicole Nestoriak, and Timothy Park), Industrial Relations (2009)
In the wake of Wal-Mart and other mass merchandisers’ entry into food retailing, the nature...
Job Hopping, Earnings Dynamics, and Industrial Agglomeration in the Software Publishing Industry, Journal of Urban Economics (2008)
This paper investigates the implications of industrial clustering for labor mobility and earnings dynamics in...
New Approaches to Creating Data for Economic Geographers (with Julia Lane and Marc Roemer), The Journal of Official Statistics (2008)
Policymakers, faced with increasing demands to make decisions at a local level, are turning to...
Related Work
ILR Impact Brief - Industry Clusters Affect Job Mobility and Earnings Growth, ILR Policy & Issue Briefs (2008)
Industry clusters are associated with greater job hopping and faster growth in workers’ earning power...
Research Contributions
Economic Turbulence: Is a Volatile Economy Good for America? (2006)
Every day, in every sector of our economy, a business shuts down while another starts...