Publications

Adrianto A., Ben-Ner, A., Sockin, J., and Urtasun, A. Sharing is Caring: Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Employee Well-Being in U.S. Manufacturing, ILR Review, Accepted.

Media Coverage in HR Reporter.

Gadgil, S. and Sockin, J. Caught in the Act: How Corporate Scandals Hurt Employees, Review of Finance, Accepted.  

Gagnon, E., López-Salido, D. and Sockin, J. (2017). The Cyclicality of Sales, Regular, and Effective Prices: Business Cycles and Policy Implications: Comment, American Economic Review, 107 (10), 3229-3242.    

Gornall, W., Gredil, O. R., Howell, S. T., Liu, X., and Sockin, J. (2025). Do Employees Cheer for Private Equity? The Heterogeneous Effects of Buyouts on Job Quality, Management Science, 71 (5), 4287-4317.     

Martellini, P., Schoellman, T. and Sockin, J. (2024). The Global Distribution of College Graduate Quality, Journal of Political Economy, 132 (2), 434-483.   

Data Output: Graduate Quality by College 

Summary Brief: Comparing colleges—and their students—across the globe (Minneapolis Fed) 

Blog Post: Who wins the global talent race?

Media Coverage in The Tribune India

Sockin, J. and Sojourner, A. (2023). What's the Inside Scoop? Challenges in the Supply and Demand for Information on Employers, Journal of Labor Economics, 41 (4), 1041-1079.

Media Coverage in The Financial Times

Sockin, J., Sojourner, A., and Starr, E. Non-Disclosure Agreements and Externalities from Silence, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Accepted.   

Summary Brief: How Do Broad Non-Disclosure Agreements Affect Labor Markets? (Upjohn Institute) 

Newsletter:  Upjohn Employment Research

Op-Ed in The Washington Post

Media Coverage in The Financial Times, Star Tribune, Forbes

Best Paper Award at 2022 Strategy Science Conference