Her research centers on the social production of health inequality. Her current funded research projects, all in California, include two studies of Mexican-origin farmworkers' health and an environmental justice project using Public Participation GIS in mediating environmental health conflict about pesticide drift. She has published articles in a number of medical, public health, and anthropological journals. He has previously held faculty positions at McMaster University and the University of Western Ontario, in addition to visiting appointments at Princeton University, University College London, the London School of Economics, the University of Munich, and the Australian National University. Kuhn's research spans the field of labor economics, including the economics of trade unions, wage and employment discrimination, immigration, displaced workers, unemployment, employment contracts, and comparative labor markets.
Contributors represent ten countries.
Current research interests include the diffusion and effects of internet job search methods, and the role of non-cognitive skills such as leadership ability in wage determination. Kuhn's research has also been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Ford Foundation, and the University of California's Pacific Rim Research Program, among other organizations. He frequently gives invited seminar presentations and lectures at universities in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia and has organized a dozen conferences in the past twelve years on various issues in labor economics. He is the author of over 100 published research papers. His research is broadly focused on modeling local labor market dynamics in an interregional setting.