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I am a Senior Economist and Economic Advisor in the Economic Research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. I am also a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and currently serve as a member of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC). I also occasionally teach adjunct at the Chicago Booth School of Business.
My research focuses on the labor market, at both the micro and macro levels, with a particular focus on the interactions between employers and workers. My projects have studied individual job search behavior; employer hiring, recruitment, and growth; and worker and firm dynamics as they relate to urban growth and agglomeration.
Prior to joining the Chicago Fed, I served as a senior economist with the Philadelphia Fed and as a research economist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I received my B.S. and B.A. from Lehigh University, and my M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Here are some useful labor market charts collected from my research. I occasionally update the time-series data depicted here. The underlying estimates for many of these charts are available under each related publication in my 'Publications' tab.