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.