Michael Handel

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Michael Handel is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Handel has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Geometry and Topology, 40 papers in Mathematical Physics and 13 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Michael Handel's work include Geometric and Algebraic Topology (31 papers), Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (30 papers) and Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (12 papers). Michael Handel is often cited by papers focused on Geometric and Algebraic Topology (31 papers), Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (30 papers) and Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (12 papers). Michael Handel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Michael Handel's co-authors include Mladen Bestvina, David Autor, Mark Feighn, John Franks, William P. Thurston, Lee Mosher, María Laura Sánchez Puerta, Alexandria Valerio, Richard B. Freeman and Ina Ganguli and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Annual Review of Sociology and Communications in Mathematical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Michael Handel

68 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Putting Tasks to the Test: Human Capital, Job Tasks, and Wages

2013 330 citations David Autor, Michael Handel profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Handel United States	22	1.0k	997	417	321	262	73	2.0k
Michael J. Hopkins United States	23	886 0.8×	964 1.0×	104 0.2×	44 0.1×	149 0.6×	78	1.9k
Michael Barr Australia	24	368 0.4×	437 0.4×	66 0.2×	281 0.9×	741 2.8×	123	1.8k
Dominique Mikell Montgomery United States	7	467 0.4×	501 0.5×	309 0.7×	112 0.3×	112 0.4×	14	1.7k
Jack Porter United States	14	203 0.2×	107 0.1×	278 0.7×	122 0.4×	116 0.4×	44	1.0k
Paul Higgins United Kingdom	15	249 0.2×	191 0.2×	41 0.1×	110 0.3×	53 0.2×	53	673
John Leahy United States	27	91 0.1×	41 0.0×	1.9k 4.6×	35 0.1×	170 0.6×	70	3.3k
Nguyen Van Dũng Vietnam	15	633 0.6×	51 0.1×	64 0.2×	101 0.3×	171 0.7×	63	1.6k
David Kerr United States	16	272 0.3×	441 0.4×	11 0.0×	161 0.5×	71 0.3×	50	858
Efe A. Ok United States	25	90 0.1×	49 0.0×	1.5k 3.7×	141 0.4×	577 2.2×	62	2.4k
M. Ali Khan United States	20	103 0.1×	193 0.2×	1.3k 3.0×	150 0.5×	110 0.4×	155	1.6k

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All Works

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Feighn, Mark & Michael Handel. (2025). The conjugacy problem for UPG elements ofOut(Fn). Geometry & Topology. 29(4). 1693–1817. 1 indexed citations

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Bestvina, Mladen, Mark Feighn, & Michael Handel. (2023). A McCool Whitehead type theorem for finitely generated subgroups of Out ( F n ) . French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 6. 65–94. 1 indexed citations

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Handel, Michael & Lee Mosher. (2020). Virtually Abelian Subgroups of $\\operatorname{IA}_{n}(\\mathbb{Z}/3)$ Are Abelian. Project Euclid (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Freeman, Richard B., Ina Ganguli, & Michael Handel. (2020). Within-Occupation Changes Dominate Changes in What Workers Do: A Shift-Share Decomposition, 2005–2015. AEA Papers and Proceedings. 110. 394–399. 18 indexed citations

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Handel, Michael, Alexandria Valerio, & María Laura Sánchez Puerta. (2016). Accounting for Mismatch in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations

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Franks, John & Michael Handel. (2013). Some virtually abelian subgroups of the group of analytic symplectic diffeomorphisms of a surface. Journal of Modern Dynamics. 7(3). 369–394.

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Franks, John & Michael Handel. (2013). Triviality of some representations of MCG(S_{a}) in GL(h,ℂ),Dc``(S²) and Hig_i(𝕋²). Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 141(9). 2951–2962. 4 indexed citations

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Handel, Michael & Lee Mosher. (2012). Lipschitz retraction and distortion for subgroups of Out(Fn). 5 indexed citations

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Autor, David & Michael Handel. (2009). Putting Tasks to the Test: Human Capital, Job Tasks and Wages. NBER Working Paper No. 15116.. National Bureau of Economic Research. 16 indexed citations

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Franks, John, et al.. (2007). Fixed points of Abelian actions. Journal of Modern Dynamics. 1(3). 443–464. 7 indexed citations

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Harris, Douglas N., Michael Handel, & Lawrence Mishel. (2004). Education and the Economy Revisited: How Schools Matter. Peabody Journal of Education. 79(1). 36–63. 5 indexed citations

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Handel, Michael. (2003). The sociology of organizations : classic, contemporary, and critical readings. SAGE Publications eBooks. 30 indexed citations

13.

Handel, Michael. (2003). Implications of Information Technology for Employment, Skills, and Wages: A Review of Recent Research. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 10 indexed citations

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Bestvina, Mladen, Mark Feighn, & Michael Handel. (2000). The Tits Alternative for out(F n ) I: Dynamics of Exponentially-Growing Automorphisms. Annals of Mathematics. 151(2). 517–517. 81 indexed citations

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Handel, Michael. (1999). A FIXED-POINT THEOREM FOR PLANAR HOMEOMORPHISMS. Topology. 38(2). 235–264. 25 indexed citations

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Bestvina, Mladen & Michael Handel. (1995). Train-tracks for surface homeomorphisms. Topology. 34(1). 109–140. 121 indexed citations

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Handel, Michael. (1992). Commuting homeomorphisms of S2. Topology. 31(2). 293–303. 15 indexed citations

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Handel, Michael & William P. Thurston. (1985). New proofs of some results of Nielsen. Advances in Mathematics. 56(2). 173–191. 50 indexed citations

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Handel, Michael. (1982). The entropy of orientation reversing homeomorphisms of surfaces. Topology. 21(3). 291–296. 21 indexed citations

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Handel, Michael. (1978). A resolution of stratification conjectures concerning CS sets. Topology. 17(2). 167–175. 2 indexed citations

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