Owen Zidar is a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University, where he also directs the Industrial Relations Section. His research explores inequality, taxation, and the role of firms and regional policy in shaping economic opportunity. Using large-scale administrative data, he studies how business…
Public discussion of AI and labor often centers on future job loss, obscuring how AI and associated algorithmic systems are transforming work today. For policymakers, labor organizers, and civil society groups, a key challenge is understanding how these systems currently shape workers’ pay, opportunities, and ability to contest…
