Stephen A. Woodbury is a professor of economics at Michigan State University and a senior economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
His research has focused on unemployment insurance, re-employment programs, nonwage compensation, pensions, and health insurance, and has been published in journals such as the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Labor Economics, Health Economics, National Tax Journal, and Labour Economics.
During 1993–1994, he was deputy director of the Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation (U.S. Department of Labor), and during 2014–2015, he was a visiting professor in the economics department and the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. He earned his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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Authored by Stephen Woodbury
Wage bargaining is an important, yet unavailable, tool for many U.S. workers to increase their incomes (opens in a new tab)
Blog NOV 16, 2021
By: Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio, Stephen Woodbury
Stephen Woodbury’s Working Papers
Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? A Test Using Dual Jobholders (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers NOV 16, 2021
By: Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio, Stephen Woodbury
Sources of displaced workers’ long-term earnings losses (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers FEB 1, 2018
By: Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Stephen A. Woodbury
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