Michael Rubens is an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA. He works in the fields of industrial organization and labor economics.

His research agenda aims to increase the understanding of the drivers and consequences of market power in vertically related industries and on factor markets.

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Working Papers

(5) Exploiting or Augmenting Labor? (with Yingjie Wu and Mingzhi Xu)

October 2024

(4) Labor Market Power and Factor-Biased Technology Adoption

July 2024 

Published and Accepted Papers

(3) Colluding Against Workers (with Vincent Delabastita)

July 2024 – Accepted, Journal of Political Economy

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(2) Market Structure, Oligopsony Power, and Productivity

September 2023 – American Economic Review, 113(9) pp. 2382-2410

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(1) Management, Productivity, and Technology Choices: Evidence from U.S. Mining Schools

March 2023 – RAND Journal of Economics, 54(1), pp. 165-186

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In Progress

Welfare Effects of Buyer and Seller Power (with Mert Demirer)

Collusion in the U.S. Labor Market (with Bradley Setzler and Chen Yeh )

Estimating Factor Price Markdowns using Production Models (with Yingjie Wu and Mingzhi Xu)