Faculty & Staff Directory
Michael Carr
Title: Department Chairman
Phone: 617.287.6950
Email: Michael.Carr@umb.edu
Department: Economics
Areas of Expertise
Labor economics, behavioral economics, workplace democracy
Degrees
PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Professional Publications & Contributions
- Michael Carr and Arjun Jayadev. 2014. "Relative Income and Indebtedness: Evidence from Panel Data". Review of Income and Wealth.
- Randy Albelda and Michael Carr. 2014. "Double-Trouble: US Low-wage and Low-income Workers, 1979-2011." Feminist Economics.
- Michael Carr. 2013. "Local Area Inequality and Worker Well-Being." Review of Social Economy.
- Michael Carr. 2011. "Work Hours and Wage Inequality: Evidence from the 2004 WERS." Journal of Socio-Economics.
Additional Information
Michael Carr's research and teaching covers a broad range of topics on employment and earnings stability, firm dynamics, and neighborhood effects on individual outcomes, with special focus on the causal role of inequality. His recent work uses experiments, surveys, and other primary data collection to investigate earnings volatility, the effects of inequality on individual and neighborhood outcomes, and the effect of inequality of firm dynamics. Currently, he teaches Microeconomics, Labor Economics, Econometrics, and Behavioral Economics. He has recently begun work funded by the Russell Sage Foundation with co-principal investigator Emily Wiemers to examine earnings dynamics across the earnings distribution.