Kugler is a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Labor Studies program[7] and a research fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London,[8] the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn,[9] the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) in London,[10] and the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University[5][6][11] and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.[12]