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Edo Navot is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law at the University of Florida. His background is in economics and sociology, with an M.Phil. in economics from the New School for Social Research (2008) and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (2014). Edo was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Haifa, Israel and at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) at Columbia University. Before joining the faculty of the UF, he was a labor economist at the U.S. Department of Labor where he worked on civil rights, with a focus on equal employment opportunity and discrimination. Dr. Navot’s research focuses on employment discrimination, the race and gender pay gaps, and income and wealth inequality.
At the U.S. Department of Labor, Edo researched the underlying causes of pay disparities in the legal industry, in financial services and banking, in universities, as well as other contexts. As part of this work, he is currently researching machine learning techniques to predict employer underpayment and under-representation of females and racial minorities for more effective and efficient government enforcement. His current research also explores policies and practices that exacerbate the gender and racial pay gap in professional and business services.
Dr. Navot has published research on how factors that reduce labor’s bargaining power exacerbate earnings inequality, particularly in fringe benefits, both in the economy in general and among females and racial minorities. He has conducted research on how employee beliefs in potential workplace discrimination may lead to self-fulfilling prophesies in employee and supervisor behavior and evaluations. Finally, he has contributed to the literature on household financialization. Edo has written about how country-level regulations of credit markets impact households’ propensity to borrow and take on mortgage debt, when that debt is sustainable for households, and when it may lead to over-leveraging and potentially contribute to financial crises.
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Teaching
Undergraduate Courses
- Social Inequality (SYO 4530)
Research
- Stratification
- Race, Gender and Employment Discrimination
- Work and Organizations
- Social Inequalities
- Quantitative Methods & Data Science
- Economic Sociology
Contact
Edo Navot, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Criminology & Law
Office: Turlington Hall, Room 3108C
Email: enavot@ufl.edu
PO Box 117330
Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611