Senior Research Fellow – Occupational Licensing, Labor Mobility

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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🧬 Research Scientist

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AlphaHire

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Construction • Consulting • Logistics

AlphaHire is an AI-powered talent acquisition and recruitment firm that specializes in fast, subscription-based staffing solutions, primarily for the construction industry. The company combines automated candidate sourcing, AI-driven matching and screening, and dedicated talent partners to accelerate hiring cycles and improve retention, claiming placements typically happen weeks faster than traditional methods. AlphaHire also works with private practices and larger systems, offering vetting, interview support, and flexible pricing models to deliver vetted professionals from technical roles to executive placements.

📋 Description

• Support research on how occupational licensing, reciprocity, universal recognition, and related state regulatory reforms affect employment, wages, labor supply, interstate mobility, and employer hiring pressure • Refine research questions and causal estimands • Evaluate treatment and comparison-group construction • Conduct Difference-in-Differences, staggered DiD, event-study, or related quasi-experimental analyses • Analyze CPS, ACS/PUMS, OEWS, QWI/LEHD, and related labor-market datasets • Develop occupation and licensing-policy crosswalks • Evaluate interstate mobility, employment, wages, and labor-force outcomes • Review methodology and threats to identification • Contribute to grant proposals and pre-analysis plans • Conduct or supervise empirical analysis if a project is funded • Contribute to academic manuscripts, research reports, and policy publications

🎯 Requirements

• Ph.D. or advanced doctoral training in economics, public policy, sociology, statistics, political science, or a related quantitative field (preferred) • Demonstrated applied research experience • Experience working with large longitudinal, administrative, or survey datasets • Proficiency in R, Stata, Python, SQL, or comparable research tools • Strong understanding of causal identification and policy evaluation • Strong written communication and methodological judgment • Experience in labor economics, occupational regulation, interstate worker mobility, professional licensing, or state policy evaluation is particularly relevant • Experience with Difference-in-Differences, staggered treatment designs, modern event-study methods, synthetic control, regression discontinuity, instrumental variables, panel-data methods, or causal inference • Experience working with CPS, ACS/PUMS, OEWS, QWI/LEHD, Census microdata, BLS datasets, state licensing records, or occupational crosswalks is especially relevant

🏖️ Benefits

• Project-based research opportunity; not a guaranteed salaried appointment • Potential consideration for larger funded research engagements contingent upon external grant or sponsored-project funding • Potential roles including Senior Research Fellow, Methods Lead, Co-Investigator, Principal Investigator / Co-Principal Investigator, Applied Labor Economist, and Research Consultant • Opportunity to be considered for future WIL research, grant, publication, and sponsored-project opportunities aligned with expertise • Academic affiliation welcome but not required