Research

• Perpetuating Inequality: What Salary History Bans Reveal About Wages

  James Bessen, Erich Denk, and Chen Meng
  
  New research shows the positive effects of laws prohibiting employers from asking about job applicants' prior salaries in reducing pay gaps for women and minorities. Read More →

• Firm-Level Automation: Evidence from the Netherlands

  James Bessen, Maarten Goos, Anna Salomons, and Wiljan van den Berge
  
  New research on evidence of effects of automation on firms and workers in the Netherlands. Read More →

• GDPR and the Importance of Data to AI Startups

  James Bessen, Stephen Michael Impink, Lydia Reichensperger, and Robert Seamans
  
  New research on the impact of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regime (“GDPR”) and data regulation on AI startups using unique survey data of commercial AI startups. Read More →

• Tying and Exclusion in FRAND Licensing: Evaluating Qualcomm

  Erik Hovenkamp and Timothy Simcoe
  
  New analysis of the Qualcomm decision in terms of how Qualcomm’s commitments to license its standard-essential patents on “fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory” (FRAND) terms bear on the antitrust analysis and how FRAND might have been used to better justify finding an antitrust duty-to-deal with competitors. Read More →

Commentary

• The Complicated Relationship Between Robots and Workers

  Robert Seamans in Forbes on some effects of robots and automation on workers and employment.  

• Automation: A Guide for Policymakers

  James Bessen, Maarten Goos, Anna Salomons, and Wiljan van den Berge in Brookings on the effects of automation on employment and implications for policy.