John T. Addison
John T. Addison is Professor of Economics and Business Partnership Foundation Distinguished Fellow at the University of South Carolina. He is concurrently a research fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor/IZA (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit) in Bonn and also of the Center for Labor and Employment Law at New York University. Addison was educated at the London School of Economics (B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D). He has held numerous visiting research appointments in Europe, most recently in 2001 as visiting professor at the Institute for Employment Research of the German Federal Labor Service/IAB (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesanstalt für Arbeit) in Nürnberg. In 1997 he was John M. Olin Visiting Professor of Labor Economics and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published widely in the major economics and specialty labor economics journals, including the Journal of Business, Review of Economics & Statistics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Labor Economics, and American Economic Review. He is the author/editor of a number of labor economics texts, including The Market for Labor: An Analytical Treatment (with W. Stanley Siebert); The Economic Analysis of Unions: New Approaches and Evidence (with Barry T. Hirsch); Job Displacement: Consequences and Implications for Policy;andLabor Markets and Social Security (with Paul J.J. Welfens). He is currently in the process of editing an International Handbook of Trade Unions (for Edward Elgar). His immediate research interests are unions and plant closings, unemployment duration analysis, the consequences of employment protection, and the impact of employee representation and involvement on firm performance.
Clive R. Belfield
Dr Clive R Belfield is Research Director, National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, and Faculty member at Teachers College, Columbia University; he is also Senior Research Fellow (Honorary) at the School of Education, University of Birmingham, England. Dr Belfield's research focus is on the Economics of Education and the determinants of firm performance. His books include Economic Principles for Education: Theory and Evidence (Edward Elgar, 2000) and editorship of Economics of Higher Education: Collected Essays (Edward Elgar, 2002). He has published articles in journals such as Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Economics of Education Review, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Applied Economics, and British Journal of Industrial Relations. Dr Belfield has undertaken
consultancy work for government and private agencies including: the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the British Council, the UK Department for Employment and Education, the European Union, and the World Bank.
Further details of Dr Belfield's research interests can be found at http://www.ncspe.org/
Bradley T. Ewing
Bradley T. Ewing is Associate Professor of Economics at Texas Tech University where he holds a joint faculty position in the Wind Science and Engineering Research Center. Professor Ewing received the Ph.D. from the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University in 1994. The author of more than 50 journal articles, he is published in Review of Economics and Statistics, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Macroeconomics, Economics Letters, Public Finance Review, Journal of Labor Research, and Journal of Risk and Insurance. His main research areas are time series econometrics, macroeconomics, finance, and labor. His work has been funded by a number of sources including the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Here is the link to my homepage: http://www3.tltc.ttu.edu/Ewing/
Henry Farber
Henry Farber is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics and a Research Associate of the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. Professor Farber graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (B.S.,1972), The New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, (M.S., 1974), and Princeton University (Ph.D., 1977). In addition to his position at Princeton, Farber is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an Associate Editor of the Industrial and Labor Relations Review. He is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society. Before joining the Princeton faculty in 1991, Farber was Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1977-91). He has also been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (1983-84, 1989-90).
Farber's current research interests include the economics of labor unions, worker mobility, wage dynamics, the role of information in labor markets, the analysis of dispute settlement mechanisms (including arbitration and litigation), and the analysis of voter behavior.
Richard Freeman
Professor Richard B. Freeman holds the Ascherman Chair of Economics at Harvard University. He is currently serving as Faculty Co-Chair of the Harvard University Trade Union Program. Professor Freeman is Program Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research Program in Labor Studies. He is also Co-Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and has taught at the University of Chicago and Yale University.
Professor Freeman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has served on five of their panels. He has published over 300 articles dealing with a wide range of research interests including the growth and decline of unions; the effects of immigration and trade on inequality, restructuring European welfare states; Chinese labor markets; youth labor market problems; poverty and crime; self-organizing non-unions in the labor market; and employee involvement programs.
Among his major books are What Do Unions Do? with J. Medoff (Basic Books, NY, 1984), What Do Workers Want, with J. Rogers (Cornell University Press, 1999), Working Under Different Rules (Russell Sage, 1994), and Labour Markets in Action (Harvard, 1989). He has led research teams of economists in studies of the Swedish economy (The Welfare State in Transition, University of Chicago, 1997, with R. Topel, and B. Swedenbourg) and the British economy (Seeking a Premiere League Economy, Chicago, forthcoming 2002, with R. Blundell and D.Card). In 2002 he will publish Visible Hands: Labor Institutions in the Economy (Oxford University), Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization? w/ Kimberly Ann Elliott (Washington DCIIE) and The Labor Market Comes to China.
Richard Freeman is currently directing an LSE research program on the effects of the Internet on labor markets, social behavior and the economy. In September 2001 he delivered the JP Morgan Lecture on "The Impact of the Internet on the Economy: Revolution Force of Overblown Hype?", at the Hans Arnhold Center in Berlin, where he was the first JP Morgan Fellow in Economics.
Link to web page: http://www.nber.org/~freeman
Rafael Gomez
RAFAEL GOMEZ is a Lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Institute of Management(IIM), at the London School of Economics (LSE) and a Research Associate at the University of Toronto's Centre for Industrial Relations and Centre for International Studies. His research compares employee relations systems, examines the effects of human resource management on individual and firm performance, and recently has examined the links between marketing strategy and human resource
practices. He has recently published several articles in both economic and industrial relations journals. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from York University, and Masters and Doctoral degrees in Economics and Industrial Relations from the University of Toronto.
Link to web page:http://www.lse.ac.uk/experts/display?xml=experts.xml&xsl=experts.xsl&xslparam=person%3dr.gomez
Darren Grant
Darren Grant is a member of the Economics Department at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he serves as Program Coordinator for the M.S. in Health Care Administration. He received his Ph. D. in 1995 from Florida State University. He has published applied empirical research in labor economics, health economics, industrial organization, and public choice. Recently he published "A Comparison of the Cyclical Behavior of Union and Nonunion Wages in the United States" in the Journal of Human Resources. No stranger to the South, he has lived in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, and worked in Mississippi; his wife is from Alabama.
Morley Gunderson
Morley Gunderson holds the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Chair in Youth Employment at the University of Toronto, where he is a Professor at the Centre for Industrial Relations (Director from 1985-97) and the Department of Economics. He is also a Research Associate of the Institute of Policy Analysis, the Centre for International Studies, and the Institute for Human Development, Life Course and Aging, all at the University of Toronto, as well as an Adjunct Scientist at the Institute for Work and Health. He has a BA in Economics from Queen's University (1967), an MA in Industrial Relations (1969) and a Ph.D. in Economics (1971) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been a Visiting Scholar at various institutions: the International Institute for Labour Research in Geneva, Switzerland (1977/78); the National Bureau of Economic Research at Stanford University (1984/85 and 1991-93); the North America Forum at the Institute for International Studies at Stanford (Summer 1994-96); and the Hoover Institution at Stanford (1998/99).
His publications include books on Union-Management Relations in Canada, 4th ed. 2000; Women in the Canadian Labour Market, 1998; Forging Business-Labour Partnerships: The Emergence of Sector Councils in Canada, 1998; Labour Market Economics: Theory, Evidence and Policy in Canada, 4th ed., 1998; Comparable Worth and Gender Discrimination: An International Perspective, 1995; Pay Equity, 1990; Women and Labour Market Poverty, 1990; and Economics of Poverty and Income Distribution, 1983. He has published over 70 articles in academic journals and over 80 chapters in edited volumes on various topics: gender discrimination and comparable worth; the ageing workforce, pensions and mandatory retirement; youth employment; public sector wage determination; the determinants and impact of immigration; the causes and consequences of strikes; childcare arrangements and labour market behaviour; workers' compensation and reasonable accommodation; labour market adjustment and training; volunteer labour supply; and the impact of trade liberalisation and globalisation on labour markets, labour policy, labour standards, industrial relations, human resource management and workplace practices.
Currently, Professor Gunderson is on the editorial board of the Journal of Labor Research and the International Journal of Manpower, and he is co-editor of the Labour Arbitration Yearbook. He has been a member of the Executive Board of the Industrial Relations Research Association and an advisor/consultant to various organizations: Labour Canada; Ontario Ministry of Labour; Statistics Canada; Abella Commission on Employment Equity; Canadian Human Rights Commission; Ontario Task Forces on Hours of Work and Overtime and on Mandatory Retirement; Ontario Pay Equity Commission; BC Task Force on Employment and Training; Ontario Workers' Compensation Board; Canadian Policy Research Network; Federal Task Force on Working Time and the Distribution of Work; Ontario Royal Commission on Workers' Compensation; Human Resources Development Canada; BC Royal Commission on Workers' Compensation; the North America Forum at Stanford; the International Labour Organisation and the Harvard Institute for International Development. He is also the recipient of the Industrial Relations Research Association Excellence in Education Award in Labour Economics, awarded in 2002.
Web-site:http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cir/faculty/mgbio.html#gunderson
John S. Heywood
John Heywood is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Graduate Program in Human Resources and Labor Relations at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Commerce at the University of Birmingham in the UK and has held past appointments in Germany, Hong Kong and Australia. His research interests include performance pay schemes, union wage determination, the economics of job satisfaction and issues of race and gender in the labor market. The author of more than 80 articles, his edited book Paying for Performance: An International Comparison (with Michelle Brown) was published this year by M.E. Sharpe.
Link to web page: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Economics/faculty/heywood.html
BarryT. Hirsch
Barry Hirsch is an applied labor economist whose research focuses on Wage determination in U.S. labor markets. Recent work includes the study of union wage premiums, unions and wages in the airline and trucking industries, pay comparability among postal employees, compensation differences between part-time and full-time workers, the civilian earnings performance of military veterans, and the relationship between wages and the racial and gender composition of jobs.
Recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Research in Labor Economics, Economic Inquiry, and Journal of Health Economics. Hirsch has authored The Economic Analysis of Unions: New Approaches and Evidence (with John Addison, 1986), Labor Unions and the Economic Performance of Firms (1991), and produces (joint with David Macpherson) an annual sourcebook, Union Membership and Earnings Data Book: Compilations from the Current Population Survey, published by the Bureau of National Affairs.
Professor Hirsch is on the editorial boards of Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, the Journal of Labor Research, and the Southern Economic Journal. Hirsch received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1977. He is currently the E.M. Stevens Distinguished Professor of Economics at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.
Barry Hirsch, Stevens Distinguished Professor
Department of Economics
Trinity University
715 Stadium Drive
San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
Office: (210)999-8112 Fax: (210)999-7255
e-mail: bhirsch@trinity.edu
Link to homepage: http://www.trinity.edu/bhirsch/
Lawrence M. Kahn
Chairperson, Department of Labor Economics; Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Studies/Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich, Germany; Former Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, New York; Former Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica Taipei; Former Visiting Scholar at the Office of Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Uppsala, Sweden; Former Visiting Fellow, Australian National University; Former Professor of Economics and Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois; Former Vice President, Midwest Economics Association; Associate Editor, Industrial & Labor Relations Review; Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Sports Economics; Former Member, Board of Editors, Industrial Relations.
Link to web site:http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/academics/faculty/default.html?teac_id=139
Bruce E. Kaufman
Kaufman's research interests include wage determination, union organizing, workforce governance, human resource management, labor strikes and institutional labor economics. He has published numerous articles in academic journals such as Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Labor Research and Industrial Relations. Kaufman is the author or editor of nine books, including The Economics of Labor Markets; Employee Representation: Alternatives and Future Directions; Government Regulation of the Employment Relationship; and The Origins and Evolution of the Field of Industrial Relations in the United States, which received the 1993 Richard A. Lester prize for "best book in labor economics and industrial relations." Kaufman's most recent book is Nonunion Employee Representation. He is also editor of the bimonthly newspaper HR Atlanta, which reaches 12,000 human resource practitioners in Georgia with articles on trends and developments in human resources statewide and locally, and co-editor of the JAI Press annual research volume Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations.
Specialties:
Labor Economics
Industrial Relations
Human Resource Management
Professor of Economics
Senior Associate, W.T. Beebe Institute of Personnel and Employment Relations
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Phone: 404-651-2922
E-mail: ecobek@langate.gsu.edu
Here is my web page link: http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwsps/people/KaufmanB.htm
David A. Macpherson
David Macpherson is Abba Lerner Professor of Economics and a research affiliate of the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy at the Florida State University. Before coming to Florida State University, he was an Associate Professor of Economics at Miami University. His specialty is applied labor economics. His current research interests include pensions, discrimination, industry deregulation, labor unions, and the minimum wage.
He is the author of many articles in labor economics and industrial relations journals including the Journal of Labor Economics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and the Journal of Human Resources.He is also co-author of the annual Union Membership and Earnings Data Book: Compilations from the Current Population Survey published by the Bureau of National Affairs. In addition, he is a co-author of the undergraduate labor economics text Contemporary Labor Economicsas well as the book Pensions and Productivity. He received his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in 1987.
Here is link to my webpage: http://www.davemacpherson.com
Daniel J. B. Mitchell
DANIEL J.B. MITCHELL, is Ho-su Wu professor at the Anderson Graduate School of Management and the School of Public Policy and Social Research, U.C.L.A. Within the latter school, he chaired the Department of Policy Studies during 1996-97. Prof. Mitchell was formerly director of the U.C.L.A. Institute of Industrial Relations (1979-90) and continues to serve on the Institute's advisory committee. During Phase II of the federal wage/price controls program of the early 1970s, Prof. Mitchell was chief economist of the Pay Board, the agency that administered wage controls. He was twice associated with the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., including a stint as a senior fellow in the economic studies program (1978-79), and participated in several Brookings-sponsored research projects.
Professional activities have included memberships on the Executive Boards of the Industrial Relations Research Association (both national and Southern California), the North American Economics and Finance Association, and the Institute of Industrial Relations Association. Prof. Mitchell is a past president of the North American Economics and Finance Association. He has also served on the nominating committee of the American Economic Association and on the editorial boards of various academic journals. He is editor of a book series on workplace studies published by M.E. Sharpe, Inc. and began a term as co-editor of the journal "Industrial Relations" in 1997.
Prof. Mitchell regularly served as a member of the Human Resource Forecast Panel while it operated at the Conference Board and later at U.C.L.A. He is a member of the International Industrial Relations Association and chairs one of its study groups (Pay Systems). At UCLA, he was co-director and then director (1999-2000) of the UCLA Anderson Business Forecasting Project. As a faculty member at UCLA, he has created a course on "California Policy Issues" (now co-taught with former presidential candidate and Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis), now a core course of the minor in policy studies.
Prof. Mitchell has served as a consultant to the Congressional Budget Office, the Federal Reserve Board, the President's Council on Wage and Price Stability, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the International Labour Organisation. His publications have generally been in the areas of wage determination, wage-price controls, concession bargaining, flexible pay plans, non-wage employee benefits, use of labor-market data, labor standards in international trade, and other aspects of labor-market analysis.
Prof. Mitchell is the author of Pensions, Politics, and the Elderly: Historic Social Movements and Their Lessons for Our Aging Society (M.E. Sharpe, 2000). The book uses California's colorful experience with "pensionite" movements of the state's seniors during the period from the 1920s through the 1940s to draw implications for the upcoming retirement of the baby boom.
Prof. Mitchell has two children and resides in Santa Monica, California with his wife Alice.
Office Address:
c/o Anderson Grad. School of Management
A409 Collins
U.C.L.A.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1481
Phone: 310-825-1504 Fax: 310-829-1042
daniel.j.b.mitchell@anderson.ucla.edu
Private Address:
P.O. Box 492391
Los Angeles, California 90049
Solomon Polachek
Polachek's prime research contributions span two areas. First is the application of life-cycle models to labor economics. Here Polachek was the first to illustrate how life-cycle human capital models explain male-female wage differentials. His extensions of this work modified traditional human capital models by introducing human capital heterogeneity to explain gender-based occupational segregation. In another application, he imbedded search, job choice, and geographic location into the human capital model, enabling him to gain insight into the analysis of geographic and job mobility including how search over the life-cycle can explain migration periodicity. A byproduct of the empirical work led to an econometric technique to estimate buyer and seller information about wages and prices. Polachek's research in this area constitutes over 150 journal articles, book chapters and conference presentations, including the book The Economics of Earnings (Cambridge University Press) 1993 written with W. Stanley Siebert. Polachek has testified about the policy implications of this research to various governmental committees and policy boards, and many of the implications have been described in the popular press including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
Second is the integration of economics and political science to explain conflict and cooperation among nations. This research has been widely received in the political science field leading to over 20 publications and conference presentations. In recognition of this work, Polachek was chosen to serve on editorial boards of Conflict Management and Peace Science (since 1989), the International Studies Quarterly (1989-1995) and as co-editor of Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy (since 1993). Polachek was elected President of the Peace Science Society (International) serving from 1999-2000. Although primarily devoted to applying economics tools to international relations, this research has implications regarding industrial relations, particularly union wage negotiations and strike activity.
Polachek has presented seminars and workshops at over 50 universities and research centers world-wide, and has visited Bar-Ilan University, Catholic University of Leuven, Erasmus University, Tel Aviv University, the Tinbergen Institute, and the University of Michigan for extended stays. He is currently serving a second term on the Editorial Board of SUNY Press and he currently edits Research in Labor Economics. Professor Polachek joined IZA as a Research Fellow in December 2000.
Link to web page: http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~polachek/
Sunder Ramaswamy
Sunder Ramaswamy is Professor and Chair of Economics at Middlebury College. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Purdue University in 1991, and a M.A. in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, India. His principal fields of specialization are Development Economics, International Trade, and Issues in Applied Microeconomics.
His other positions include Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Madras School of Economics (India); Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University; Visiting Fellow, Institute of Financial Management and Research (India); Member, Board of Advisors, Institute of Economics Education (Madras, India); Research Associate, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University; and Consultant, Agricultural Policies Division, World Bank. He is currently involved with a joint Reserve Bank of India and World Bank project on Indian economic reforms. In the past he has been involved with USAID and INTSORMIL projects on agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
His teaching interests include Development Economics, International Trade, and Microeconomic Theory. He served on the task force that created the College's International Studies major and takes active part in the International Politics and Economics, and East Asian Studies programs.
His research interests are in the areas of development economics (focus on agricultural technological change, sustainable development, women in development, and financial sector reforms), trade and development (trade liberalization), and applied microeconomics. His books include The Economics of Agricultural Technology in Semiarid Sub-Saharan Africa, with John H. Sanders and Barry I. Shapiro (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, 1997); Economics: An Honors Companion, with Kailash Khandke, Jenifer Gamber and David Colander (McGraw-Hill/Richard D. Irwin Publishers, 1995). He is one of three series editors of the Middlebury Bicentennial Series on International Studies. He is the co-editor of two books forthcoming in 2002. The first, Developmet and Democracy: New Perspectives on an Old Debate, edited with Jeffrey W. Cason, is forthcoming with the University Press of New England; the other, Social Capital and Economic Development: Well Being in Developing Countries, edited with Jonathan Isham and Thomas Kelly, is forthcoming with Edward Elgar Publishers.
He has also contributed numerous chapters in various books and articles either published or forthcoming in journals such as Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Systems, Applied Economics, Comparative, Economic Studies, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economics Letters, Environment, and Journal of Development Economics.
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Sunder Ramaswamy
Professor of Economics & Chair, Department of Economics
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753
Ph: 802 - 443- 5322
Edward Schumacher
Edward J. Schumacher is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at East Carolina University. He is the author or co-author of numerous articles on union wages, health care labor markets, workers with disabilities, and racial wage differentials in such journals as The Journal of Human Resources, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, and The Journal of Labor Research. He is currently working on research in the labor market experiences of workers with disabilities, the labor market for workers in the textile and apparel industry, the role of managed care in nursing labor markets, and the effects of earnings imputation on estimates of wage differentials. Professor Schumacher received his Ph.D. from Florida State University in 1994.
Link to web site: http://www.ecu.edu/econ/faculty/schumachere/
John Sessions
John Sessions is a Reader in Economics at the University of Brunel in West London. He has held visiting positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Universite-Pantheon-Assas Paris II, and the University of Trier, Germany. He was awarded a BSc Economics with first class honors from the University of Southampton, and an MSc and PHD both from the London School of Economics. His research is in labor economics and industrial organization, with particular interests in the economics of absence and performance related pay. He has published in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, the Economic Journal, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Labour, and the Journal of Labor Research.
Link to web site: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/ecf/
John G. Sessions
Department of Economics and Finance
Brunel University
Uxbridge
Middlesex UB8 3PH
England
Tel: +44 (0) 1895-203386
Fax: +44 (0) 1895-203384
Email: john.sessions@brunel.ac.uk
Phanindra Wunnava
Phanindra V. Wunnava is a Professor of Economics at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont. He joined Middlebury economics department in 1985. He has also served as chair of the department. He was a Research Associate in economics at the State University of New York-Binghamton, NY during the academic years 1989-1992. During the academic year 1999-2000 he was a Visiting Professor/Scholar of Economics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC..
He was trained under a noted labor economist Solomon Polachek of State University of New York-Binghamton, and received a Ph.D. in economics in 1986. His fields of interest are applied econometrics and labor economics. Wunnava received his Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Commerce degrees from the Andhra University (India), Master of Arts and Doctor of Arts degrees in economics from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
Wunnava's articles appeared in wide range of scholarly journals (such as Review of Economics and Statistics, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Labor Research, Economics Letters, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Applied Economics, Applied Economics Letters, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Small Business Economics, Economics of Education Review,American Economist, Journal of Business and Economic Studies, and North American Journal of Economics and Finance)covering the areas of life-cycle union non-union wage/benefit differentials, firm size effects, gender and racial wage differentials, efficiency wage models, charitable contributions towards higher education, disincentive effects of unemployment insurance, infant mortality, effect of net foreign investment on manufacturing productivity, and time-series properties of the north American unemployment rates.
He also co-edited New Approaches to Economic and Social Analyses of Discrimination (with Richard R. Cornwall) Praeger 1991, and Immigrants and Immigration Policy: Individual Skills, Family Ties, and Group Identities (with Harriet Duleep) JAI Press 1996.
He is organizing the Middlebury 23rd Annual Conference on Economic Issues "Changing Role of Unions"April 2002.
Link to my webpage
Middlebury College Student Participants
Justin Drechsler '02
Justin Drechsler '02 is an Economics major/Mathematics minor hailing from Saint James, New York. His true economic passion is game theory, on which he wrote his senior honors thesis: "Variations of the Mini-Ultimatum Game: An Exercise in Information". Upon graduating this spring, he hopes to apply his game theoretic skills to Wall Street while pursuing a career in bond trading.
Brendan McCauley '02
Brendan McCauley '02 is a senior economics major who is interested in macroeconomic research and e-commerce.
Valerie O'Hearn '02
Valerie O'Hearn '02 is a senior from Reading, Massachusetts. She is an Economics major and a mathematics minor, and is currently participating in a Labor Economics seminar. Other areas of interest include game theory and bargaining theory. She hopes to return to Boston after graduating and utilize her math and economic skills.
Dusan Petrovic '02.5
Dusan Petrovic '02.5 is a double Economics and Physics major. He grew up in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. His areas of interest are applied econometrics and Complexity Theory.
Jessica Wasilewski '02
Jessica Wasilewski '02 is an Economics major, Mathematics minor from Sun Valley, Idaho. She has just completed her senior honors thesis titled, "Low-Income Credit Rationing and Social Return on Investment: Welfare-to-Work Car Loans and the Vermont Development Credit Union."
Laura Zarchin '03
Laura Zarchin '03 is a junior at Middlebury College from Falls Church, Virginia. She is majoring in economics and working towards a minor in history. Areas of economic interest include labor economics and transitional economies.