About
Chalem is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Michigan, a predoctoral trainee at the Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research, and a student fellow at the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics. He has two research focuses. One examines distributive politics and outcomes in American federalism. The other explores how labor market dynamics affect workers' and households' economic well-being. He uses demographic and longitudinal methods to examine how processes in these areas have evolved over long periods of time and how they interact with one another.
Chalem's ongoing projects examine workers' experience of employment insecurity, how state governments shape economic inequality, and the equity of fiscal relationships between the federal and state governments. Each examines a relational dynamic: between workers and employers, among workers in households, or between federal and state governments, in an important institution of the American political economy.
