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Maria Guadalupe

Professor Guadalupe's research interests are in the area of Labor Economics and the Economics of Personnel and Organizations. In her work, she has studied the effect of changes in the degree of competition in the product market that firms face on their internal behavior. In particular she has shown how increased product market competition leads to higher returns to skill and therefore increased wage inequality. Guadalupe has also studied the effect of the competitive environment on the compensation packages that firms offer to their executives and the degree to which they use performance related pay. Guadalupe teaches the core course Managerial Economics.

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Ann Bartel

Professor Bartel is an expert in the fields of labor economics and human resource management and has published many articles on employee training, human capital investments, job mobility and technological change. In her current work, Bartel is studying how the human capital of the nursing workforce impacts patient outcomes, and in another study, is examining the impact of technological change on firms' outsourcing decisions. Bartel received the 1992 Margaret Chandler Award for Commitment to Excellence in teaching. She teaches Managerial Negotiations and Strategy, Structure and Incentives. Bartel is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the recipient of research grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S. Department of Labor and the Citicorp Behavioral Sciences Research Council.

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