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Paul Oyer studies the economics of organizations and human resource practices. His work has looked at the use of broad-based stock option plans, how firms use non-cash benefits, how firms respond to limits on their ability to displace workers, and how labor market conditions affect their entire careers when MBAs and PhD economists leave school. Oyer’s current projects include studies of of the "Gig Economy" and a study of how people's backgrounds determine the decision to become an entrepreneur and the success of ventures that they start. He is a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research and the former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Labor Economics.