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D-Index
63
Citations
16013
World Ranking
698
National Ranking
440

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Jacob Mincer Award, the Society of Labour Economics (SOLE)
  • 1988 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 1981 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Henry S. Farber is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and specializes in the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their work spans several subfields, including Economics and Econometrics, Public Administration, General Health Professions, Marketing, and Media Technology.

The main topics covered in Farber's research focus on labor market dynamics and wage inequality, firm innovation and growth, fiscal policy and economic growth, labor movements and unions, employment and welfare studies, healthcare policy and management, and consumer market behavior and pricing.

Their recent publications include:

  • Monopsony in the Labor Market (2022), The Journal of Human Resources
  • Monopsony in the Labor Market: New Empirical Results and New Public Policies (2021), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Unions and Inequality over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data (2021), The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • Replication Data for: 'Unions and Inequality over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data' (2021), Harvard Dataverse
  • Health Insurance and Part-Time Employment: The Influence of the Affordable Care Act (2024), SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors in their work include Orley Ashenfelter, David Card, Michael R. Ransom, Daniel Herbst, and Ilyana Kuziemko.

Henry S. Farber has published extensively in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, The Journal of Human Resources, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Harvard Dataverse, and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Throughout their career, Farber has received several recognitions including the Jacob Mincer Award from the Society of Labour Economics in 2018, was named a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1988, and was a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1981.

Best Publications

  • Learning and Wage Dynamics

    Henry S. Farber;Robert Gibbons

  • Job duration, seniority, and earnings

    Katharine G Abraham;Katharine G Abraham;Henry S Farber;Henry S Farber

  • Unions and Inequality over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data

    Henry S Farber;Daniel Herbst;Ilyana Kuziemko;Suresh Naidu

  • The Changing Face of Job Loss in the United States, 1981-1995

    Henry S. Farber;John Haltiwanger;Katharine G. Abraham

  • Mobility and stability: The dynamics of job change in labor markets

    Henry S. Farber

  • Job Queues and the Union Status of Workers

    John M. Abowd;Henry S. Farber

  • Polities and Peace

    Henry S. Farber;Joanne Gowa

  • The Incidence and Costs of Job Loss: 1982-91

    Henry S Farber

  • The analysis of union behavior

    Henry S. Farber

  • Is tomorrow another day? The labor supply of New York City cabdrivers

    Henry Stuart Farber

  • Reference-Dependent Preferences and Labor Supply: The Case of New York City Taxi Drivers

    Henry S. Farber

  • The Analysis of Interfirm Worker Mobility

    Henry S. Farber

  • Common Interests or Common Polities? Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace

    Henry S. Farber;Joanne Gowa

  • Why Workers Want Unions: The Role of Relative Wages and Job Characteristics

    Henry S. Farber;Daniel H. Saks

  • Interest Arbitration, Outcomes, and the Incentive to Bargain

    Henry S. Farber;Harry C. Katz

  • What do we know about Job Loss in the United States? Evidence from the Displaced Workers Survey, 1984-2004

    Henry S. Farber

  • Alternative and Part-Time Employment Arrangements as a Response to Job Loss

    Henry S. Farber

  • Recent trends in employer-sponsored health insurance coverage: are bad jobs getting worse?

    Henry S Farber;Helen Levy

  • An Analysis of Final-Offer Arbitration

    Henry S. Farber

  • Union Membership in the United States: The Decline Continues

    Henry S. Farber;Alan B. Krueger

  • Monopsony in the Labor Market

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Frequent Co-Authors

Max H. Bazerman
Max H. Bazerman Harvard University
Till von Wachter
Till von Wachter University of California, Los Angeles
Katharine G. Abraham
Katharine G. Abraham University of Maryland, College Park
Orley Ashenfelter
Orley Ashenfelter Princeton University
Theodore Eisenberg
Theodore Eisenberg Cornell University
Robert G. Valletta
Robert G. Valletta Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Bruce Western
Bruce Western Columbia University
Michelle J. White
Michelle J. White University of California, San Diego
Janet Currie
Janet Currie Princeton University
Jesse Rothstein
Jesse Rothstein University of California, Berkeley

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