STEVEN
G. ALLEN
OFFICE:
College
of Management
North
Carolina State University
P.O. Box
7229
Raleigh,
NC 27695
Phone:
(919) 515‑6941
Fax:
(919) 515-5073
E-Mail:
STEVE_ALLEN@NCSU.EDU
WWW:
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~sgallen/index.htm
PERSONAL
DATA:
Born
March 17, 1952 in Louisville, Kentucky
Married
to Linda L. Pattison since 1978, no children
CURRENT
POSITIONS:
Professor
of Economics and Business Management, North Carolina State University, 1987 - .
Director,
Master of Science in Management program, North Carolina State University, 1993
- .
Research
Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1986 - .
PREVIOUS
POSITIONS:
1983‑1987,
Associate Professor of Economics and Business, North Carolina State University.
1983‑1986,
Research Economist, National Bureau of Economic Research.
1978‑1983,
Assistant Professor of Economics and Business, North Carolina State University.
1977‑1978,
Instructor of Economics, Harvard University.
1974‑1977,
Teaching Fellow, Harvard University.
EDUCATION:
Harvard
University Economics Ph.D. 1978
Michigan
State University Economics M.A. 1974
Michigan
State University Mathematics B.A. with
high honors 1973
SOCIETY
MEMBERSHIPS:
American
Economic Association
Industrial
Relations Research Association
Econometric
Society
Society
of Labor Economists
JOURNAL
ARTICLES:
"Compensation,
Safety, and Absenteeism: Evidence from the Paper Industry," Industrial
and Labor Relations Review, January 1981, pp. 207‑218.
"An
Empirical Model of Work Attendance," Review of Economics and Statistics,
February 1981, pp. 77‑87.
"How
Much Does Absenteeism Cost?" Journal of Human Resources,
Summer 1983, pp. 379‑393.
"Much
Ado About Davis‑Bacon: A Critical Review and New Evidence," Journal
of Law and Economics, October 1983, pp. 707‑736.
"Trade
Unions, Absenteeism, and Exit‑Voice," Industrial and Labor
Relations Review, April 1984, pp. 331‑345.
"Unionized
Construction Workers are More Productive," Quarterly Journal of
Economics, May 1984, pp. 251‑274.
"A
Comparison of Pension Benefit Increases and Inflation," Monthly Labor
Review, May 1984, pp. 42‑46, with Robert Clark and Daniel
Sumner.
"Why
Construction Industry Productivity Is Declining," Review of Economics
and Statistics, November 1985, pp. 661‑669.
"Unionization
and Productivity in Office Building and School Construction," Industrial
and Labor Relations Review, January 1986, pp. 187‑201.
"The
Effect of Unionism on Productivity in Privately and Publicly Owned Hospitals
and Nursing Homes," Journal of Labor Research, Winter 1986,
pp. 59‑68.
"Post‑Retirement
Adjustments of Pension Benefits," Journal of Human Resources,
Winter 1986, pp. 118‑137, with Robert Clark and Daniel Sumner.
"Union
Work Rules and Efficiency in the Building Trades," Journal of Labor
Economics, April 1986, pp. 212‑242.
"Unions,
Pension Wealth, and Age‑Compensation Profiles," Industrial and
Labor Relations Review, July 1986, pp. 502‑517, with Robert
Clark.
"Can
Union Labor Ever Cost Less?" Quarterly Journal of Economics,
May 1987, pp. 347‑373.
"Relative
Wage Variability in the United States 1860‑1983," Review of
Economics and Statistics, November 1987, pp. 617‑626.
"Why
Do Pensions Reduce Mobility?"
Proceedings of the Fortieth Annual Meeting, Industrial Relations
Research Association, 1987, pp. 204-212, with Robert Clark and Ann
McDermed.
"Productivity
Levels and Productivity Change Under Unionism," Industrial Relations,
Winter 1988, pp. 94-113.
"Further
Evidence on Union Efficiency in Construction," Industrial Relations,
Spring 1988, pp. 232-240.
"Declining
Unionization in Construction: The Facts and The Reasons," Industrial
and Labor Relations Review, April 1988, pp. 343-359.
"The
Pension Cost of Changing Jobs," Research on Aging, December 1988,
pp. 459-471, with Robert Clark and Ann McDermed.
"Why
Construction Industry Productivity Is Declining: Reply," Review of
Economics and Statistics, August 1989, pp. 547-549.
"Changes
in the Cyclical Sensitivity of Wages in the United States, 1891-1987," American
Economic Review, March 1992, pp. 122-140.
"Pensions,
Bonding, and Lifetime Jobs," Journal of Human Resources, Summer
1993, pp. 463-481, with Robert Clark and Ann McDermed.
"Labor
Market Flexibility and Unemployment in Chile and Uruguay," Estudios de
Economia, Noviembre 1994, pp. 127-146, with Gastón Labadie and Adriana
Cassoni.
"Updated
Notes on the Interindustry Wage Structure," Industrial and Labor
Relations Review, January 1995, pp. 305-321.
"Unit
Costs, Legal Shocks, and Unionization in Construction," Journal of
Labor Research, July 1995.
"Post‑Retirement
Increases in the 1980s: Did Plan Finances Matter?" Research in Aging,
June
1995, Vol. 17. No. 2, pp. 190-208, with Robert Clark and Ann McDermed.
"Some
Principles of Economics for Human Resource Management," Labor Law
Journal, August 1996, pp. 549-554.
"Wages
and Employment after Reunionization in Uruguay," Cuadernos de Economía,
Agosto 1996, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 277-293, with Adriana Cassoni and Gastón
Labadie.
“Technology
and the Wage Structure,” Journal of Labor Economics, April 2001, Vol.
19, No. 2, pp. 440-483.
“The
Impact of a New Phased Retirement Option on Faculty Retirement Decisions,” Research on Aging, November 2001, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 671-693, with
Linda Ghent and Robert Clark.
PAPERS
IN COLLECTION:
“Has
Job Stability Vanished in Large Corporations?” in David Neumark, ed., On the
Job: Is Long-Term Employment a Thing of the Past? New York: Russell Sage
Foundation, 2000, pp. 196-223, with Robert L. Clark and Sylvester Schieber.
"Quantitative
Flexibility in the U.S. Labor Market," in Edward Amadeo and Susan Horton (eds.),
Labour Productivity and Flexibility, London: Macmillan, 1997, with
Richard Freeman.
"Reforming
the Labor Market in a Liberalized Economy: The Case of Uruguay," in
Gustavo Marquez (ed.), Reforming the Labor Market in a Liberalized Economy,
Baltimore, Johns Hopkins, 1995, pp. 137-191, with Gastón Labadie and Adriana
Cassoni.
"Declining
Unionization in Construction: Fresh Facts and New Reasons," Work Place
Topics, symposium on issues for the future of labor/management relations
edited by Michael Gordon, Vol. 4, No. 1, June 1994, pp. 45-60.
"IRCA
and Seasonal Farm Labor in North Carolina," in Philip Martin et al
(eds.), Immigration Reform and U.S. Agriculture, Publication Number
3358, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources,
Oakland, 1995, pp. 159-176, with Daniel Sumner.
"Developments
in Collective Bargaining in Construction in the 1980s and 1990s," in Paula
Voos (ed.), Contemporary Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector,
Industrial Relations Research Association, 1994, pp. 411-445.
"Post-Retirement
Increases in the l980s," in John Turner and Daniel Beller (eds.), Trends
in Pensions 1992, Washington, DC:
USGPO, 1992, pp. 319-339, with Robert Clark and Ann McDermed.
"Immigration
and Seasonal Labor Usage by North Carolina Tobacco Growers," in Farrell
Delman, Thomas Slane, and Michael Manon (eds.), Current Issues in Tobacco
Economics, Volume 4, Princeton, NJ: Tobacco Merchants Association,
1991, pp. 35‑60, with Daniel Sumner.
"Human
Resource Policies and Union-Nonunion Productivity Differences," in
Daniel J.B. Mitchell and Jane Wildhorn (eds.), The Effective Use of
Human Resources: A Symposium on New Research Approaches, Los Angeles, CA:
UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations, Monograph and Research Series, Vol. 52,
1990, pp. 49-82.
"Unions
and Productivity Growth," in Handbook of Health Care Human Resources
Management, 2nd ed., Norman Metzger (Ed.) Rockville, Md.: Aspen, 1990,
pp. 491-502.
"Pension
Wealth, Age‑Wealth Profiles, and the Distribution of Net Worth," in
Robert E. Lipsey and Helen Stone Tice (eds.), The Measurement of Saving,
Investment, and Wealth, Chicago: University of Chicago, 1989, pp. 689-731,
with Robert Clark and Ann McDermed.
"Discussion
of 'The Retirement Decision in Cross-National Perspective", by Alex
Inkeles and Chikako Usui," in Issues in Contemporary Retirement,
Rita Ricardo-Campbell and Edward Lazear (Eds.) Stanford, Ca.: Hoover
Institution, 1988, pp. 297‑306.
"Unions
and Job Security in the Public Sector," in When Public Sector Workers
Unionize, Richard B. Freeman and Casey Ichniowski (Eds.) Chicago:
University of Chicago, 1988, pp. 271-296.
"Pensions
and Firm Performance," in Human Resources and Firm Performance,
Morris Kleiner et al (Eds.) Madison, Wis.: Industrial Relations
Research Association, 1987, pp. 196-242, with Robert Clark.
"Inflation
and Pension Benefits," in The Handbook of Pension Statistics: 1985,
Richard Ippolito and Walter Kolodrobetz (Eds.) Chicago: Commerce
Clearing House, 1986, pp. 177‑250, with Robert Clark and Daniel
Sumner.
MANUSCRIPTS
AND WORKING PAPERS:
“Phasing
into Retirement,” presented at Society of Labor Economists meeting in April
2001, under review at Industrial and Labor Relations Review, with Robert
Clark and Linda Ghent.
“The
Effects of Unions on Employment: Evidence from an Unnatural Experiment in
Uruguay,” NBER Working Paper No. 7501, with Adriana Cassoni and Gastón Labadie.
“The
Impact of Labor Market Policies on the Wage Structure: Evidence from Chile and
Uruguay,”
presented
at Econometric Society meetings in Santiago Chile, August 1997, with Gastón
Labadie.
OTHER
PUBLICATIONS:
“Discussion
of Refereed Papers – Labor Economics and Labor Markets,” Proceedings of the
Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting,” Industrial Relations Research Association, January
4-6, 1997, pp. 366-367.
"Reformas
del mercado laboral ante la liberalización de la economía: El caso de
Uruguay," Interamerican Development Bank, Serie de Documentos de Trabajo
177, with Adriana Cassoni and Gastón Labadie.
"Is
Flexibility the Answer? Benefits and Costs of U.S. Labor Market
Flexibility" in Economia, Capital & Trabalho, published by the
economics department at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
(with Richard Freeman).
"Labor
Market Flexibility and Economic Performance in Uruguay and Chile," final
report to the Tinker Foundation, 1994, with Gastón Labadie.
Testimony
before the Commission on Agricultural Workers, Raleigh, North Carolina,
September 28, 1990, in Report of the Commission on Agricultural Workers, Appendix
II: Hearings and Workshops (Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office,
1993): 297-301.
"Post-Retirement
Increases," final report to U.S. Department of Labor, October 1991, with
Robert Clark and Ann McDermed.
"Trends
in Earnings and Compensation," NC State Economist, February 1989.
"Job
Mobility, Older Workers, and the Role of Pensions," final report to
U.S. Department of Labor, November 1986, with Robert Clark and Ann
McDermed.
"Unionization
and Productivity in the Construction Industry," final report to
U.S. Department of Labor, May 1985.
"Inflation
and Pension Benefits," final report to U.S. Department of Labor,
August 1983, with Robert Clark and Daniel Sumner.
"Unions
and Productivity," Tar Heel Economist, August 1986.
"Determinants
of Wage Levels in North Carolina," Tar Heel Economist, November
1979 (with Robert M. Fearn).
"Employment
and Wage Changes in North Carolina," NCSU Economics Information Report
No. 60, January 1980 (with Robert M. Fearn and Paul S. Stone).
Predicting
Occupational Employment Patterns in North Carolina,
prepared for the N.C. Department of Commerce, December 1981 (with
Y. Brannon, L. Charest, J. McIntyre and D. Norris).
Prevailing
Wage Laws Are Not Inflationary: A Case Study of Public School Construction
Costs, Center to Protect Workers' Rights, December
1980 (with David Reich).
Absenteeism
and the Labor Market, Ph.D. thesis, Department of
Economics, Harvard University, 1978.
BOOK
REVIEWS:
Alan
L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier, Pension Incentives and Job Mobility
(Kalamazoo, Mich.: Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1995) in Industrial
and Labor Relations Review, Vol.
49, No. 4, July 1996, pp. 761-2.
Barry
Hirsch, Labor Unions and the Economic Performance of Firms (Kalamazoo,
Mich.: Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1991) in Journal of Labor
Research, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 439-441.
Robert
C. Feenstra, Ed., The Impact of International Trade on Wages (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2000) in Industrial and Labor Relations Review,
forthcoming.
OTHER
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
Testimony
before the Commission on Agricultural Workers, Raleigh, September 1990.
Committee
on Construction Productivity, Building Research Board, National Research
Council, 1985.
Board
of Reviewers, Industrial Relations, 1989-present.
Associate
of the Employee Benefit Research Institute Fellows program, 1994-present.
Economics
Network, Center to Protect Workers' Rights, 1995-2000.
SOURCES
OF RESEARCH SUPPORT:
Inter-American
Development Bank, study of labor mobility and employment adjustment in Uruguay,
$75,000, 1997-99, with Gastón Labadie and Adriana Cassoni.
International
Development Research Center, study of labor market flexibility in the U.S.,
$10,000, with Richard Freeman, 1994-95.
Inter-American
Development Bank, study of wage determination in Uruguay, $40,000, 1994.
Tinker
Foundation, study of labor market flexibility in Uruguay and Chile, $94,500,
1992-93.
U.S.
Department of Labor, Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration, study of
post-retirement increases in pension benefits, $90,920, 1988-1991.
National
Science Foundation, analysis of changes in wage rigidity in the
U.S. between 1860 and today, $82,640, 1987‑1991.
North
Carolina Tobacco Foundation, analysis of impact of immigration reform on seasonal
farm labor markets, with Daniel Sumner, $62,000, 1987‑1991.
U.S. Department
of Labor, Assistant Secretary for Policy, analysis of effects of pensions on
labor mobility, $113,714, 1985‑1986, with Robert Clark and Ann McDermed.
National
Science Foundation, analysis of decline in productivity and unionization in the
construction industry, $63,907, 1984‑1986.
Sloan
Foundation and National Bureau of Economic Research, analysis of effects of
unions in the public sector on employment adjustments over time, $5,000, 1984‑1986.
U.S. Department
of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, study of unionization and
productivity in the construction industry, $73,000, 1982‑1984.
U.S. Department
of Labor, Labor‑Management Services Administration, study of post‑retirement
adjustments of private pension benefits, $184,724, 1981‑1983, with Robert
Clark and Daniel Sumner.
National
Bureau of Economic Research, seed money for unionization and productivity in
construction industry study, $1,390, 1981.
North
Carolina Department of Commerce, study of how to obtain more accurate
information about occupational employment patterns in N.C., with staff at the
North Carolina State University Center for Urban Affairs and Community
Services, $10,000, 1981.
Building
and Construction Trades Department, AFL‑CIO, study of effect of unions on
productivity in the construction industry, approximately $20,000, 1979‑1980.
North
Carolina State University Faculty Research and Professional Development Fund,
seed money for study of recent changes in U.S. wage structure, $1,400,
1979‑1980.
U.S. Department
of Labor, Manpower Administration Doctoral Dissertation Grant, economic
analysis of absenteeism and the effect of absenteeism on wages and
productivity, $10,000, 1976‑1978.
PRESENTATIONS
AT WORKSHOPS, PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES:
Academy
of Management
American
Economic Association
Cornell
NYSSILR/AFL-CIO
Econometric
Society -- North American Meetings
Econometric
Society -- World Congress
Federal
Mediation and Conciliation Service
Hoover
Institution
Industrial
Relations Research Association
Interamerican
Development Bank
National
Bureau of Economic Research
Public
Service Commission of Canada
Russell
Sage Foundation
Southern
Economic Association
Columbia
Business School
Columbia
University
Cornell
University
Duke
University
Fuqua
School of Business
Harvard
University
Indiana
University
Kenan-Flagler
Business School
Miami
University
Michigan
State University
North
Carolina State University
Oberlin
College
Princeton
University
Purdue
University
Temple
University
University
of Chicago
University
of Chile
University
of Guadalajara
University
of Maryland
University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University
of South Carolina
University
of Toronto
University
of Wisconsin
Vanderbilt
University
Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University
The
Wharton School
HONORS
AND AWARDS:
Listed
in "Economists Hall of Fame" in Loren C. Scott and Peter M. Mitias,
"Trends in Rankings of Economics Departments in the U.S.: An Update,"
Economic Inquiry, April 1996, pp. 378-400. Ranked 13th in U.S. in pages published 1984-93 in Top 36 journals
and 10th in pages published in Top 5 journals.
Economic
Conference of the President and Vice-President, lead presentation at session
two "Strains on Working Families in the New Economy," Emory
University, Atlanta, March 28, 1995.
Initiated
into Sigma Beta Delta, honorary society in management, May 6, 1994.
Outstanding
Research Award, College of Management, North Carolina State University, October
1993 (first award given by college).
Fulbright
Award to lecture in Uruguay at the Centro de Estudios de la Realidad Economica
y Social, June-July 1991; follow-up award, July 1993.
Most
articles published in top industrial relations journals 1983-88, as tabulated
by Michael E. Gordon and Julia E. Purvis, “Journal Publication records as a
Measure of Research Performance in Industrial Relations,” Industrial and
Labor Relations Review, October 1991, pp. 194-201.
Distinguished
Research and Literary Publication Award, School of Humanities and Social
Sciences, North Carolina State University, April 1986 (first award given by
school, publications between July, 1982 and June, 1985 were eligible).
Allyn
Young Award for excellence in teaching Economics 10 at Harvard (awarded twice,
1974‑75 and 1975‑76 academic years)
COURSES
TAUGHT AT NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY:
EC
201H Economics I (Honors
section)
EC
302 Intermediate
Macroeconomics
BUS
330 Human Resource
Management
BUS
332 Industrial Relations
EC
431 Labor Economics
ECG
507 Economics for Managers
(micro)
BUS
530 Human Resource
Management
ECG
532 Economics of Trade
Unions
BUS
583 Management Practicum
ECG
630 Labor Economics
ADMINISTRATIVE
ASSIGNMENTS AT NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY:
Director,
Master of Science in Management program, 1993-present
Teaching
evaluation committee, Department of Business Management, 1999-2000
Search
committee, dean for College of Management, 1998-99.
Chair,
Team C: Curriculum, AACSB accreditation self study report, College Of
Management, 1998- 2000.
Chair,
College of Management website committee, 1998-2000
Chair,
Institutional Effectiveness and Strategic Planning Committee, Department of
Business Management, 1998-99
University
Committee on International Programs, 1995-1997
Labor
Workshop chairman, 1983‑1994
Chairman,
hiring priorities committee, Department of Business Management, fall 1992
University
Honors Council, 1992-93
Director,
Undergraduate Honors Program, 1987‑91
Undergraduate
Curriculum, 1979‑82, 1987-89, 1990-91; chair, 1981-82, 1988-89,
1990-92
Center
for Economics and Business Studies, 1986‑1987
Honors
and Awards, 1985‑1986
Graduate
Admissions, 1982‑1985
Library,
1983‑1984
MAJOR
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS MSM DIRECTOR:
1. Fall
enrollment increased from 159 in 1992 to 230 in 1999.
2. Application
volume increased from 109 in fall 1993 to over 250 in fall 2001.
3. Percentage
of students admitted on provisional basis declined from 71 in fall 1992 to 5
percent in fall 1999.
4. Average
years of working experience of matriculating students increased from 3 in fall
1993 to 4.5 in fall 1999.
5. New
curriculum developed and implemented in fall 1995. Program now focuses on management of information, operations, and
technology and emphasizes business processes over traditional functions. Requirements added in management, strategy,
and international. All students must do
practicum where they analyze an issue or process facing a real organization. Most courses are now taught in two-credit
hour, half semester modules.
6. New
curriculum developed and implemented in fall 1999. Reduction in required classes accompanied by increase in
concentration classes and electives.
Students must enter in fall and go through program in cohort. Return to full-semester, three-credit-hour
classes. Faculty team launched to
supervise core.
7. Initiated
and wrote proposal to increase tuition by $5000 per academic year effective in
fall 2002; first stage to go into effect fall 2002.
8. Four
star rating in initial Peterson's Guide to MBA Programs, one of only three
programs at that level or above in North Carolina.
9. Initiated
more active recruiting of students, including information sessions advertised
in local paper, visits to local companies, MBA forums in Atlanta and
Washington, D.C., subscription to GMASS data base.
10. Obtained
Graduate School approval to change governance structure of MSM program.
11. Developed
and implemented program to get summer school courses taught regularly for
evening students.
12. Designed
and implemented surveys of students and alumni.
13. Initiated
practice of regular focus groups with MSM students to get feedback on program.
14. Expanded
offerings of evening courses.
15. Changed
admissions process from faculty to administrative committee.
16. Developed
brochure for MSM, as well as brochure and CD-ROM to promote graduate programs
in College of Management.
17. Obtained and administered ten-fold increase in budget for graduate assistance and four-fold increase in tuition remission.
18. All
of the above items occurred during my tenure as MSM director. They would not have happened without the
contributions of Carol Smith and Pam Bostic in the MSM office and the
cooperation and support of faculty, department heads, and deans in the College
and the University.
COURSES
TAUGHT AT HARVARD:
EC
10 Principles of
Economics
EC
970 Sophomore Tutorial
EC
1010B Intermediate
Macroeconomic Theory (assistant to James
Duesenberry,
Elisabeth Allison)
EC
1550 Business Organization
and Behavior in Industrial Countries
(assistant to
Richard Caves)