Research

The contribution of intensive margin adjustments to the cyclical fluctuations in total hours worked has increased in the US since the 1980s. I document that the job tenure length has increased during this period and labor hours adjustments in recessions are more prominent in economies with higher job tenure lengths. I build a search-and-matching model with part-time workers and job-specific human capital accumulation. With the model, I claim that the improvement in initial match quality can account for the increased use of intensive margin adjustments along the business cycle.


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Work in Progress

Monopolistic Competition, Noncompete Agreements, and Human Capital Accumulation (with Donghyun Suh)
The Biases in Workers' Expectations of Labor Market Outcomes: A Machine Learning Analysis (with Dongchen Zhao)