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Samuel Young

Assistant Professor

Arizona State University

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Samuel Young

Samuel Young is an assistant professor of economics at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business. His research explores how labor market institutions, such as regulations and policy interventions, affect workers and firms.

Recently, his work has focused on unions, noncompete clauses, Unemployment Insurance, and inequality. Previously, Young was a postdoctoral fellow at the U.S. Census Bureau. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2022.

Funded Research

All Academic Awards 2024 and Prior
$30,000

The Distributional Effects of Firm Productivity Changes: Evidence from U.S. Linked Worker-Owner Data

2024
Early Career
$15,000

Measuring firms’ labor market power in the United States

2019

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