Clem Aeppli

PhD Student, Harvard University Department of Sociology

email: caeppli@g.harvard.edu

I am a PhD candidate in Sociology at Harvard University. In my research, I aim to understand how broad transformations in the organization of work shape inequality and instability. My projects have dealt with pay gaps between workplaces, the effect of rising workplace segregation on racial inequality, payroll instability at subcontractors, and the emergence of modern factories in the early 20th century. I use computational methods to study American and French administrative data — both contemporary and historical — and am interested in the methods we use to understand economic and social life. Here's my CV.

I am on the academic job market this fall (2025).

Publications

• Rapid Wage Growth at the Bottom Has Offset Rising US Inequality (with Nathan Wilmers). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022.
  Preprint Code + data
  Covered in Time, The Economist, Business Insider, and Quartz.
• Consolidated Advantage: The New Organizational Dynamics of Wage Inequality (with Nathan Wilmers). American Sociological Review, 2021: 1100-1130.
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  Significant Scholarship Award of RC28 of the International Sociological Association, 2023

Works in progress

• Subcontracting and Employment Instability. Conditionally accepted at American Sociological Review.
Thompson Graduate Student Paper Award of the ASA section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work (2024)
• Workplace Segregation and the Structure of American Racial Earnings Inequality. Revise and resubmit at American Journal of Sociology.
Organization Science/INFORMS dissertation award finalist (October 2025)
Here's a video of me presenting this.
• Employment Opportunity, Racial Inequality, and Industrial Modernization in the Early Twentieth Century. Revise and resubmit at American Journal of Sociology.
• Measuring Variance between Groups in the Presence of Covariates. Revise and resubmit at Sociological Methods and Research.
Clogg Graduate Student Paper Award of the ASA section on Methodology (2025)
• Schedule Stability and Employee Retention at IKEA (with Kristen Harknett, Daniel Schneider, and Jeremy Mopsick). Revise and resubmit at Industrial and Labor Relations Review.
• The Decline of Low-Wage Jobs (with Nathan Wilmers and Soohyun Roh). Revise and resubmit at American Sociological Review.
• A marginal interpretation of distributional counterfactuals. In progress.

Other links

• Here are some scripts to download and clean years 1966-1993 of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data (EEO-1) from the National Archives.

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