Johannes Schmieder is Associate Professor of Economics at Boston University. His fields of study are Labor Economics, Health Economics, Industrial Organization, and Environmental Policy and Regulation. He holds a PhD and M.A. in Economics from Columbia University. His undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Economics is from University of Bayreuth, Germany.
His current research projects include the following: “Domestic Outsourcing in the United States,” with David Dorn, Jim Spletzer, and Lee Tucker; and “The Effects of Franchising on Workers: Evidence from the United States,” with Rosemary Batt and Andrew Green. His prior research on outsourcing includes “The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure” with Deborah Goldschmidt.