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Associate Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts

Michael Carr's research and teaching covers a broad range of topics on labor market structure, workplace democracy, and job quality. His recent work uses experiments and surveys to investigate the effect of worker autonomy in the workplace on job satisfaction, worker performance, and firm performance. Currently, he teaches Microeconomics, Labor Economics, and Behavioral Economics.

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Michael Carr's research and teaching covers a broad range of topics on labor market structure, workplace democracy, and job quality. His recent work uses experiments and surveys to investigate the effect of worker autonomy in the workplace on job satisfaction, worker performance, and firm performance. Currently, he teaches Microeconomics, Labor Economics, and Behavioral Economics.

Present	Associate Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts, University of Massachusetts Boston
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Behavioral Economics and Labor Economics

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Articles (4)

Double Jeopardy: Low-wage and Low-income Workers in Massachusetts, 1980–2009

Economics Faculty Publication Series (2012)

Randy Albelda and Michael Carr

Data reveal a growing number of Massachusetts workers who both earn low wages and live in low-income families. They face ...

Local Area Inequality and Worker Well-Being

Review of Social Economy (2012)

This paper uses General Social Survey data linked to Census data to investigate the effect of local area income and ...

The relative effect of voice, autonomy, and the wage on ...

International Journal of Human Resource Management (2012)

Michael Carr and Phil Mellizo

This article uses data from the 2004 wave of the Workplace Employment Relations Survey to investigate the relative effects of ...

Work hours and wage inequality: Evidence from the 2004 WERS

Journal of Socio-Economics (2011)

This paper uses the 2004 wave of the Workplace Employment Relations Survey to test whether work hours and wage inequality ...

Unpublished Paper

Low-Wage and Low-Income Workers In The U.S., 1979-2009

Center for Social Policy Publications (2012)

Randy Albelda and Michael Carr

Three decades of stagnating earnings for bottom decides of male wage earners and 1990s anti-poverty policies promoting employment among poor ...

Effort, work hours, and income inequality: Three essays on the ...

Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest (2009)

Over the last 30 years income inequality in the U.S. has increased considerably. Partly because of this, there has been ...