Chris Tilly is professor of Urban Planning and Sociology at UCLA. Tilly holds a joint Ph.D. in Economics and Urban Studies and Planning from MIT. For over thirty years, he has conducted research on low-wage and precarious work and policies to improve conditions and reduce inequalities in the workplace.

Johannes Schmieder is Associate Professor of Economics at Boston University. His fields of study are Labor Economics, Health Economics, Industrial Organization, and Environmental Policy and Regulation. He holds a PhD and M.A. in Economics from Columbia University. His undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Economics is from University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Raffaele Saggio is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research focuses on how alternative work arrangements impact outcomes of both firms and workers. Saggio’s research utilizes econometric methods that facilitate the study of matched employer-employee datasets.

Christine Riordan is an Assistant Professor at the School of Labor and Employment Relations (LER), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Christine has conducted research focusing on the implications of restructuring and outsourcing for work design and voice. Research in progress explores these topics in the nursing occupation; past work has focused on legal work in corporate law firms.

Hye Jin Rho is an Assistant Professor at the School of Human Resources and Labor Relations at Michigan State University. Formerly, she was an economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). Her research focuses on the changing nature of work and organizations, such as outsourcing and the use of alternative work arrangements, and its implications for employment processes and outcomes dictating the future of work.

Michael Reich is Professor and Co-Chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) of the University of California at Berkeley.  He served as Director of IRLE from 2004 to 2015. His research publications cover numerous areas of labor economics and political economy, including the economics of racial inequality; labor market segmentation; historical stages in U.S.

James A. Parrott is Director of Economic and Fiscal Policies at the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School. Parrott’s recent research projects include analyses of the economic impact of the Covid-19 crisis in New York City, and of the magnitude of gig and other low-paid independent contract work in New York State.

Geoffrey Parker is a professor of engineering at the Thayer School of Dartmouth College where he also serves as director of the Master of Engineering Management Program. His research explores the economics of and strategy of platform markets and two-sided markets.

Paul Oyer is The Mary and Rankine Van Anda Entrepreneurial Professor and Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.  In addition, he is a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Labor Economics.  Oyer studies the economics of organizations and human resource practices, fo