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 Michael Stoll
Associate Director
Michael Stoll received his Ph.D. from MIT in Urban Planning in 1995 and BS in Political Economy from UC Berkeley. He served as a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City in 1999-2000. His main research interests include the study of urban poverty and inequality, specifically the interplay of labor markets, race/ethnicity, geography and workforce development.
Dr. Stoll's published work has included an examination of the role of geography in producing differential labor market outcomes across different racial/ethnic groups in Washington D.C., Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles. He has also explored the role that suburban labor market discrimination, transportation, and job information play in causing space to become a major barrier to to employment for inner city workers. The employer demand for welfare recipients in Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Chicago and Los Angeles in response to questions that policy makers have about the employability of welfare recipients under federal welfare reform legislation is another area of focus. His economic development research explores the efficacy of place versus people policies as strategies to economically revitalize inner cities and the role that race/ethnicity plays in local economic development.
Currently, Dr. stoll has begun a major research project to examine the labor market consequences of mass incarceration in the United States. This research program will include a detailed examination of employers' willingness to hire ex-offenders and whether employers statistically discriminate in hiring against groups with high incarceration rates, such as African Americans.
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