Enes Işık

I am a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. My current research focuses on the drivers of economic inequality, combining perspectives from economic history, economic development, and macroeconomics.

In particular, I seek to measure wealth and income distribution in data-scarce settings, examining how structural changes during economic development shape these distributions and how macroeconomic policies affect the redistribution of wealth and income.

My earlier studies delved into the impact of minimum wage policies on labor market outcomes and innovation in pharmaceuticals and climate change mitigation technologies.

Work in Progress

  • (2025) Inflation and Redistribution by Design (with Özgür Orhangazi).

Revise and Resubmission

  • (2025) Six Decades of Unequal Growth: Income and Wealth Inequality in Turkey, 1968-2022, at Review of Income and Wealth.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • (2024) Firm-level anatomy of innovation in climate change mitigation technologies. Journal of Cleaner Production, 445(1), 1-16. pdf link replication package

  • (2022) Profitability and drug discovery. Industrial and Corporate Change, 31(4), 891-904. (with Özgür Orhangazi) pdf link slides

  • (2020) Heterogeneous effects of minimum wage on labor market outcomes: A case study from Turkey. IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 10(1).(with Özgür Orhangazi & Hasan Tekgüç) pdf link slides

Teaching

  • Lecturer
  • Teaching Assistant
    • (2024) Spring: Econ 452—Econometrics
    • (2023) Fall: Econ 121—International Economy
    • (2023) Spring: Econ 204—Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory
    • (2022) Fall: Econ 204—Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory
    • (2022) Spring: Econ 104—Introduction to Macroeconomics
    • (2021) Fall: Econ 104—Introduction to Macroeconomics

Other Publications

  • (2021) Book review: Ajit Sinha, A Revolution in Economic Theory: The Economics of Piero Sraffa (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, New York, NY, USA and Melbourne, Australia 2016), Review of Keynesian Economics 9(3), 429-431. link

  • (2020) Asgari Ücret Artışının Ücretler, İstihdam ve Kayıt Dışılık Üzerindeki Etkileri. İktisat ve Toplum, Kasım, Sayı: 121 (with Özgür Orhangazi & Hasan Tekgüç) pdf

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