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Directors

  • Director, Labor Dynamics Institute
  • Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University

Philipp Kircher's research focuses on the consequences of search frictions in labor markets, in particular regarding wage setting and assignment of workers to jobs.

  • Director, Labor Dynamics Institute
  • Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics

Michèle Belot's research interests are broadly in applied microeconomics, with a special interest in experimental work in areas related to labor, health and education.

  • Executive Director, Labor Dynamics Institute
  • Senior Research Associate, Department of Economics at Cornell University

Lars Vilhuber's interest in statistical disclosure limitation issues is a consequence of his other research interest: working with highly detailed longitudinally linked data to analyze the effects

Affiliates

  • Senior Economics Advisor, Labor Dynamics Institute
  • Extension Faculty, ILR School

From 2013 to 2017, she served as the 14th Commissioner of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics; in addition to her role at ILR, she is a Research Fellow at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Res

  • Executive Senior Advisor for the Research and Methodology Directorate, U.S. Census Bureau
  • Edmund Ezra Day Professor Emeritus of Economics, Statistics and Data Science

Professor Abowd joined ILR in 1987 and became Chief Scientist and Associate Director for Research and Methodology at the Census Bureau in 2016, moving to his current post in October 2022.

Learn more about our links to ILR's history

LDI's leadership and affiliates hold appointments honoring some of America's and ILR's most distinguished figures

Frances Perkins

Frances Perkins is the among the leading figures in twentieth-century U.S. labor figures.
Frances Perkins teaching a class at the ILR School
Frances Perkins

Irving M. Ives

Irving Ives became ILR's first dean as a political problem solver.
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Irving M. Ives

Edmund Ezra Day

Economist, statistician, and Cornell University President who brought ILR to Ithaca
Edmund Ezra Day poses with a copy of the Gettysburg Address, a gift from Marguerite Lilly Noyes
Edmund Ezra Day

Postdocs and Predocs

Future of Work Fellow Studies Job Search Platforms, Job Seekers

Bart de Koning is part of the ILR’s Labor Dynamics Institute.
Portrait of Bart de Koning
Future of Work Fellow Studies Job Search Platforms, Job Seekers

Pre-docs

Contributing to LDI projects
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Pre-docs

Mary-Jo Ajiduah

Ryan Ali

Andres Aradillas Fernandez

Ananya Bakshi

Dhilan Bansal

Kevin Bao

Surita Basu

Leonel Borja Plaza

Jacob Brogdon

Melanie Brown

Manvir Chahal

Lincy Chen

Melanie Chen

Yanyun Chen

Christine Cho

Ashley Cooray

Jill Crosby

Liam Cushen

Taren Daniels

Satya Datla

Hongyi Duan

Sam Evans

Jenna Kutz Farabaugh

Leslie Geng

Manas Gogula

Vansh Gupta

Sylverie Herbert

Kate Hofer

Bianca Jimenez

Nehedin Juarez

Zechariah Karsana

Suvd Khaliun

Anjini Khanna

Ilona Khimy

Leah Kim

Seong Hwan Kim

Eli Kolozezh

Kushal Kumar Reddy

Matthew LaFontaine

Jason Lan

Huey Le

Jeong Hyun Lee

Cade Lenczycki

Naomi Li

Xiangru Li

Louis Liu

Qianli Liu

Luis Lopez Cabrera

Nathan Maidi

Janet Malzahn

Jared Martin

Rubal Mistry

Ololade Omotoba

Franklin Otieno

Joshua Passell

Asha Patt

Daniella Pena

Andreas Psahos

Jacob Recht

Lydia Reiner

Jessica Rizzo

Peter Sanchez

Emma Sbrollini

Craig Schulman

Kayla Scott

Valerie Setiawan

Ximei Shen

Weiting Shen

Weilun Shi

Jaeyoung Shim

Dmitry Shlyapnikov

Fatou Sidibe

Hyuk Son

Lauren Stubbs

Jonathan Temkin

Tarangana Thapa

Lilly Thomalla

Syon Verma

Edward Vu

Matt Wang

Raymond Wang

David Wasser

Meredith Welch

Kirubeal Wondimu

Zebang Xu

Akshay Yadava

Yicheng Yang

Botao Yao

Steve Yeh

Ashley Yu

Siyang Elaine Yu

Alizay Zartash

Miranda Zhou

Julia Zimmerman