Professor McLaughlin's current research involves estimating the effects of minimum wages on employment. His earlier research concentrated on job turnover, wage rigidity, and inter-industry mobility.

Current Research

"Employment Effects of Three Rounds of Federal Minimum Wage Hikes." Unpublished manuscript, November 2018. (revised June 2019)

"Employment Effects of California's 1988 Minimum Wage Hike." In progress

"Sherwin Rosen." For The Palgrave Companion to Chicago Economics, Robert A. Cord, Editor. Manuscript, August 2020. [Lewis (1969)]

Publications

Labor Economics: Principles and Practice, 2/e. Oxford University Press, 2019. (1/e, 2016 )

"Internal Labor Markets in Japan: A Review." Journal of Economic Literature 40 (September 2002): 943–44.

"Interindustry Mobility and the Cyclical Upgrading of Labor." Journal of Labor Economics 19 (January 2001): 94–135. (with Mark Bils)

"Why Wages Don’t Fall During a Recession: A Review." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 54 (January 2001): 378–81 .

"Are Wage Changes Skewed Away From Wage Cuts?" Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review (May/June 1999): 117–32.

"Intertemporal Substitution and λ-Constant Comparative Statics." Journal of Monetary Economics 35 (February 1995): 193–213.

"Rigid Wages?" Journal of Monetary Economics 34 (December 1994): 383–414.

"Rent Sharing in an Equilibrium Model of Matching and Turnover." Journal of Labor Economics 12 (October 1994): 499–523.

"A Theory of Quits and Layoffs with Efficient Turnover." Journal of Political Economy 99 (February 1991): 1–29.

"General Productivity Growth in a Theory of Quits and Layoffs." Journal of Labor Economics 8 (January 1990): 75–98.

"Aggregate Employment Dynamics and Lumpy Adjustment Costs: Comment." Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 33 (Autumn 1990): 131–36.

"Aspects of Tournament Models: A Survey." Research in Labor Economics 9 (1988): 225–56.