Barry Hirsch

Research Fellow

Georgia State University

bhirsch@gsu.edu

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Barry Hirsch is the W.J. Usery Chair of the American Workplace at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia. Hirsch is an applied labor economist whose research focuses on wage determination in U.S. labor markets. Recent work includes the study of union wage gaps, Census earnings imputation methods, and earnings in regulated and previously regulated industries. Hirsch has authored The Economic Analysis of Unions: New Approaches and Evidence (with J. Addison, 1986) and Labor Unions and the Economic Performance of Firms (1991), and is co-editor (with W. Breit) of Lives of the Laureates, 5th ed., MIT Press (2009). Recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Labor Economics and Journal of Human Resources. He is on several editorial boards, including Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, and the Southern Economic Journal. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in March 2003.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15300

Real Estate Agent Earnings and Local Housing Prices

Barry Hirsch, David A. Macpherson, Zichong (Tom) Qu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14636

The Labor Market Earnings of Veterans: Is Military Experience More or Less Valuable than Civilian Experience?

Christos A. Makridis, Barry Hirsch

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2021, 42 (3-4), 303-333

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14398

Five Decades of Union Wages, Nonunion Wages, and Union Wage Gaps at Unionstats.com

David A. Macpherson, Barry Hirsch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13831

Winter Weather and Work Hours: Heterogeneous Effects and Regional Adaptation

Bo Liu, Barry Hirsch

published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2021, 39 (4), 867-881

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12786

Revisiting Union Wage and Job Loss Effects Using the Displaced Worker Surveys

Abhir Kulkarni, Barry Hirsch

published in: ILR Review, 2021, 74 (4), 948-976

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11710

Trouble in the Tails? What We Know about Earnings Nonresponse Thirty Years after Lillard, Smith, and Welch

Christopher R. Bollinger, Barry Hirsch, Charles M. Hokayem, James P. Ziliak

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127 (5), 2143-2185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10571

Nonprofit Wages: Theory and Evidence

Barry Hirsch, David A. Macpherson, Anne E. Preston

published in: Bruce Seaman and Dennis Young (eds.), Handbook of Research on Nonprofit Economics and Management, 2nd ed., Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2018, pp. 146-179

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10245

Rotation Group Bias in Measures of Multiple Job Holding

Barry Hirsch, John V. Winters

published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 147 (October), 160-163.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9631

The Puzzling Fixity of Multiple Job Holding across Regions and Labor Markets

Barry Hirsch, Muhammad M. Husain, John V. Winters

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2017, 84 (1), 26-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9630

Multiple Job Holding, Local Labor Markets, and the Business Cycle

Barry Hirsch, Muhammad M. Husain, John V. Winters

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 5:4

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8449

Evaluating Workplace Mandates with Flows versus Stocks: An Application to California Paid Family Leave

Mark Curtis, Barry Hirsch, Mary C. Schroeder

revised version published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 83 (2), 501-526

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8388

Who Cares – and Does It Matter? Measuring Wage Penalties for Caring Work

Barry Hirsch, Julia Manzella

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 40, 213-275

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7313

An Anatomy of Public Sector Unions

Barry Hirsch

published in: Michael Green and Samuel Estreicher (eds.), The Challenge for Collective Bargaining: Proceedings of the NYU 65th Annual Conference on Labor, LexisNexis, 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6766

An Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Trends in Male Earnings

John V. Winters, Barry Hirsch

revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2014, 60 (4), 930-947

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6757

Unions, Wage Gaps, and Wage Dispersion: New Evidence from the Americas

Fernando Rios-Avila, Barry Hirsch

published in: Industrial Relations, 2014, 53 (1), 1-27.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6132

Minimum Wage Channels of Adjustment

Barry Hirsch, Bruce E. Kaufman, Tetyana Zelenska

revised version published in: Industrial Relations, 2015, 54 (2), 188-239

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5347

Is Earnings Nonresponse Ignorable?

Christopher R. Bollinger, Barry Hirsch

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (2), 407-416

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5342

Unions, Dynamism, and Economic Performance

Barry Hirsch

published in: Cynthia Estlund and Michael Wachter (eds.), Research Handbook on the Economics of Labor and Employment Law, Edward Elgar, 2012, pp. 107-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3956

Lessons from the Laureates

William Breit, Barry Hirsch

published in: William Breit and Barry T. Hirsch (eds.), Lives of the Laureates: Twenty-three Nobel Economists, 5th ed., Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3833

Underpaid or Overpaid? Wage Analysis for Nurses Using Job and Worker Attributes

Barry Hirsch, Edward J. Schumacher

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2012, 78 (4), 1096-1119.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3375

Wage Gaps Large and Small

Barry Hirsch

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 74 (4), 915-933