Research Interests
Todd's primary areas of interest are the study of migration issues and the study of firm market power over workers. His recent work has shown that firm wage setting power increases during economic downturns and that firm market power may bias estimates of the substitutability of different types of workers. He has also studied the mobility of guest workers on H-1B visas and found a surprising amount of mobility of these workers, providing a check on firm market power over these workers.
He joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in January 2007 and became a Research Fellow in April 2010.
IZA Publications
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5492
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3301
Published as: "Mexican Immigrants, Labour Market Assimilation and the Current Population: The Sensitivity of Results Across Seemingly Equivalent Surveys" in: International Migration, 2015, 53(2), 250–262
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3060
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2870
research from this working paper published separately as 'Race and Gender Differences under Federal Sentencing Guidelines' in: American Economic Review , 2012, 102 (3), 256–260 and as 'Do you receive a lighter prison sentence because you are a woman or a white? An economic analysis of the federal criminal sentencing guidelines' in: BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2014, 14 (1), 1-54
IZA World of Labor Article
