Popular tracks by "The Work Goes On" hosted by Orley Ashenfelter

Robert Flanagan on boosting union membership and why orchestras struggle financially

Barry Chiswick on immigration, the American Jewish experience, and how to measure discrimination

David Lewin on employee voice in a capitalist economy and the re-emergence of unionization

Robert Michael on collecting specialized data to inform public policy

Ernst Stromsdorfer on studying vocational training in academia, government, and the private sector

Bob Gregory on how polio changed his life–and inspired him as a student

Stephen Nickell on his journey from math teacher to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee

Thomas Kochan on the United Auto Workers strike and the need for a new social contract at work

Robert Solow on growing up in Brooklyn, fighting Nazis, and everything that came after

Robert Pollak on the “two career problem” and modeling the economics of the family

Robert Willis on jumping ship from trade to study fertility and demographics

Claudia Goldin on her journey from the Bronx to Harvard–with groundbreaking research in between

James Heckman on his early academic career and the work that makes him proud

Labor Economics and the Economics of Higher Education: A Conversation with Ronald Ehrenberg

Richard Freeman on the state of unions in the U.S., why few Americans pursue STEM degrees, and more.

Michael Piore on internal labor markets, immigration, innovation, and more

Bruno Contini on life under Mussolini and the Italian labor market today

Robert McKersie on his lifelong study of labor negotiations and the state of unions today

Richard Layard on his life in public service and his pioneering research on happiness

Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn on labor market inequalities and the future of the gender wage gap

Myra Strober on women, work, and feminist economics

Frank Stafford on the origins of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)

Daniel Hamermesh on the overhyped four-day work week and a lifetime of labor economics research

Ray Marshall on his path from an orphanage in Mississippi to U.S. Secretary of Labor

Gender Differences in Worker Pay: A Conversation with Ronald Oaxaca

John Pencavel on growing up in London’s West End and his sympathy for workers and unions

Bob Hall on his role in the Brookings Papers, the NBER Business Cycle Dating committee, and more

W. Craig Riddell on his Path from the Canadian Navy to Labor Economics

Reuben Gronau on his many contributions to Israeli economic policy