Harvard University

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Professors Daniel Schneider (Harvard Kennedy School) and David Weil (Brandeis University) are recruiting one full-time postdoctoral research fellow with a PhD in sociology, economics, public policy, industrial relations, or a related field for the 2024-2025 Academic Year. The post-doctoral fellow will be responsible for working closely with Professors Schneider and Weil on a project focused on developing new tools that could help state labor enforcement agencies more strategically deploy scarce investigative and compliance enforcement resources. The post-doctoral fellow will collaborate with Schneider and Weil to analyze data from the Shift Project and administrative sources. The goal is to build predictive models for identifying sectors and companies where workers may face issues like wage theft, violations of paid sick leave, inadequate break time, and scheduling notice problems. They will contribute to the development of a proof-of-concept tool for a target low-wage industry and work with collaborating state labor enforcement agencies to field test the methods. In all, this work will involve significant data construction, computational analysis, managing relationships with non-academic collaborators, and contributing to co-authored presentations and papers.

Applications due 1/8/24
Fall 2024 start

Visit https://shift.hks.harvard.edu/about/jobs/ to learn more about the position requirements, qualifications, benefits, and how to apply.