Suresh Naidu
Fellow
As a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, Suresh studies the political economy of labor markets, with particular interest in measuring worker and employer power in diverse labor market contexts.
Suresh Naidu studies the political economy of labor markets, with particular interest in measuring worker and employer power in diverse labor market contexts. He has worked on American slavery, migrant labor in the United Arab Emirates, Amazon Mechanical Turk, and low-wage labor markets in the US. For Roosevelt, he has worked on policy solutions for labor market monopsony, the effect of COVID-19 on essential workplaces, and the myth of the skills gap.
Publications By The Author
Employer Power and Employee Skills: Understanding Workforce Training Programs in the Context of Labor Market Power
December 4, 2020
By Suresh Naidu, Aaron Sojourner
Understanding the COVID-19 Workplace: Evidence From a Survey of Essential Workers
June 4, 2020
By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Suresh Naidu, Adam Reich, and Patrick Youngblood
Antitrust-Plus: Evaluating Additional Policies to Tackle Labor Monopsony
May 14, 2020
By Suresh Naidu, Eric A. Posner
Author Featured In
The Powerlessness of Forced Labor (Podcast)
Pitchfork Economics Opens in new windowFacing COVID-19, Low-Wage Service Workers Are Striking across the Country. Here’s Why—and Why It Matters.
The Washington Post Opens in new windowTax ‘Excess’ Profits of Big Money-Making Companies to Fix Coronavirus Economy, Scholar Urges
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