May
2004
CURRICULUM VITAE
Francine
D. Blau
Frances Perkins Professor of
Industrial and Labor Relations
Cornell University
Address: School of Industrial and Labor
Relations
Cornell
University
265
Ives Hall
Ithaca,
New York 14853-3901
Telephone: 607-255-4381
Fax: 607-255-4496
E-Mail: fdb4@cornell.edu
URL: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/faculty/fdb4
Educational Background:
Ph.D. (Economics), Harvard
University, 1975
M.A. (Economics), Harvard
University, 1969
B.S. (Industrial and Labor
Relations), Cornell University, 1966
Current Positions:
August
1994 - Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor
Economics, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.
July
1988 - Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
July
1995 - Director, Institute for Labor Market Policies, School of Industrial and
Labor Relations, Cornell University.
August
1996 - 2003 -Faculty Affiliate, Cornell Employment and Family Careers
Institute, Cornell University.
April
2001-present-Research Fellow, Center for Economic Studies/Ifo Institute for
Economic Research (CESIfo), Munich, Germany.
April 2004-present, Research
Fellow, IZA, Bonn, Germany.
Professional
Offices:
Second Vice-President, Society of
Labor Economics, 2004, President 2006; President, Industrial Relations Research
Association, 1997; Vice President, American Economic Association 1993-1994;
President, Midwest Economics Association 1991-1992; Chair, American Economic
Association Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession,
2003--; Chair, Program Committee, Society of Labor Economists, 1997 meeting;
Executive Board, Midwest Economics Association 1990-1993; Executive Board,
Industrial Relations Research Association, 1987-89; Vice President, Midwest
Economics Association, 1983-84.
Editorships and
Editorial Boards:
January
1998 to April 2002 - Board of Editors, American
Economic Review
February
2001 to January 2004 Advisory Board, Journal
of Economic Perspectives.
February
1994 to January 2001 - Associate Editor, Journal
of Economic Perspectives.
April
1996 to present - Advisory Board, Journal
of Labor Abstracts.
May
1992 to June 1995 - (co-)Editor, Journal
of Labor Economics.
Other Editorial Boards: Industrial
Relations (1989-1996), Feminist
Economics (1994-present); Signs:
Journal of Women in Culture and
Society (1979-present); Women and
Work (1983-1995); Social Science
Quarterly (1978-1994).
Previous Positions:
July
1995 July 2001 - Research Director, School of Industrial and Labor Relations,
Cornell University.
October
1997 June 2001 - Research Associate, Canadian International Labour Network
(CILN).
September
1999 to July 2000 Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, New
York.
August
1983 to August 1994 - Professor of Economics and Labor and Industrial
Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
June-August
1993 - Visiting Fellow, The Australian National University, Canberra Australia.
Fall
1988 - Associate, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
August
1978 to August 1983 - Associate Professor of Economics and Labor and Industrial
Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
August
1975 to August 1978 - Assistant Professor of Economics and Labor and Industrial
Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
September
1974 to August 1975 - Research Associate, Center for Human Resource Research,
Ohio State University.
September
1971 to June 1974 - Instructor in Economics, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.
Spring
Term, 1971 - Visiting Lecturer, Yale University.
PUBLICATIONS
Books and
Monographs:
(with Lawrence M. Kahn) At Home
and Abroad: US Labor Market Performance in International Perspective (New
York, Russell Sage Foundation, 2002).
Received Richard A.
Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial
Relations published in 2002 (Industrial Relations Section, Princeton
University); listed as Outstanding Academic Title for 2002 by Choice Magazine.
(with
Marianne A. Ferber and Anne E.
Winkler), The Economics of Women,
Men, and Work, Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 3rd ed. 1998, 4th ed. 2002.
(edited
with Ronald G. Ehrenberg), Gender and
Family Issues in the Workplace, New York:
Russell Sage Foundation, 1997. Notable Book in Labor Economics and Industrial
(Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University).
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn), Wage Inequality: International Comparisons of Its Sources,
Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute Press, 1996.
(with
Marianne A. Ferber), The Economics of
Women, Men, and Work, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1st ed. 1986; 2nd ed. 1992.
Equal Pay in the Office, Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1977, 158 pp.
(with
Adele Simmons, Ann Freedman and Margaret Dunkle), Exploitation from 9 to 5:
Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Women and Employment,
Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books,
1975, 200 pp.
Articles and
Proceedings:
(with Lawrence M. Kahn) Reply to Berndt Keller and to David
Marsden, Comparative Labor Law and
Policy Journal, forthcoming (special review symposium on book by Blau and
Kahn, At Home and Abroad: US Labor Market Performance in International
Perspective).
The Market for New Ph.D. Economists in 2002: Comment. American
Economic Review (forthcoming May 2004).
(with Lawrence M. Kahn), Do Cognitive Test Scores Explain Higher US
Wage Inequality? Review of Economics and
Statistcs (forthcoming).
(with Lawrence M. Kahn and Jane Waldfogel) The Impact of Welfare
Benefits on Single Motherhood and Headship of Young Women: Evidence from the Census, Journal of Human Resources (forthcoming).
(with
Giuseppe Bertola and Lawrence M. Kahn), Collective Bargaining Institutions and
Demographic Employment Patterns, IRRA
Proceedings 55th Annual Meeting (2003).
(with Lawrence M.
Kahn, Joan Moriarty, and Andre Souza) "The Role of the Family in
Immigrants Labor-Market Activity: An Evaluation of Alternative Explanations:
Comment, American Economic Review (March 2003).
(with Lawrence M.
Kahn), Understanding International Differences in the Gender Pay Gap, Journal
of Labor Economics (January 2003).
(with Lawrence M.
Kahn), Gender Differences in Pay, Journal of Economic Perspectives
(Fall 2000), pp. 75-99.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn and Jane Waldfogel) Understanding Young Women's Marriage
Decisions: The Role of Labor and
Marriage Market Conditions, Industrial & Labor Relations Review
(July 2000), 624-647.
(with Lawrence M.
Kahn), Analyzing the Gender Pay Gap, Quarterly
Review of Economics and Finance (Special Issue 1999): 625-46.
Widening
Diferentials by Skill: An American
Dilemma, IRRA Proceedings 50th
Annual Meeting (1998), 1-10.
(with
Patricia Simpson and Deborah Anderson), Continuing Progress? Trends in Occupational Segregation Over the
1970s and 1980s, Feminist Economics
(Fall 1998), 29-71.
Trends
in the Well-being of American Women, 1970-1995, Journal of Economic Literature (March 1998), 112-165.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn), Youth Employment in the US and West Germany, 1984-91, IRRA Proceedings 49th Annual
Meeting (1997), 87-97.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn), "Swimming Upstream:
Trends in the Gender Wage Differential in the 1980s," Journal of Labor Economics (January
1997, part 1), 1-42.
Symposium
on Primary and Secondary Education: Introduction, Journal of Economic Perspectives (Fall 1996), pp. 3-8.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn), Why Does the U.S. Have Higher Male Wage Inequality? Prices Versus Characteristics, Comparisons Internationale De Salaires,
Actes du Collque des 1er et 2 février 1996, INSEE, Paris.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn), "International Differences in Male Wage Inequality:
Institutions and Market Forces," Journal
of Political Economy (August 1996), 791-837.
Summarized in The Changing Nature of Work, Global Development and Environment
Institute, Tufts University, Island Press, 1998.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn), "Wage Structure and Gender Earnings Differentials: an
International Comparison," Economica
(May 1996), S29-S62.
Reprinted in Women in the Labor Market (The International Library of Critical
Writings in Economics No. 90), ed. by Marianne A. Ferber, Edward Elgar, 1998.
(with
Lawrence Kahn), "Rising Wage Inequality and the U.S. Gender Gap," American Economic Review (May 1994),
23-33.
Reprinted in Women in the Labor Market (The International Library of Critical
Writings in Economics No. 90), ed. by Marianne A. Ferber, Edward Elgar, 1998.
"Gender
and Economic Outcomes: The Role of Wage Structure," Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations (Spring
1993), 73-92.
(with
Adam Grossberg), "Maternal Labor Supply and Children's Cognitive
Development," Review of Economics
and Statistics (August 1992), 474-481.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn), "The Gender Earnings Gap: Learning from International
Comparisons," American Economic
Review (May 1992), 533-38.
(with
Andrea Beller), "Black-White Earnings Over the 1970s and 1980s: Gender
Differences in Trends" Review of
Economics and Statistics (May, 1992), 276-86.
(with
Adam J. Grossberg), "Wage and Employment Uncertainty and the Growth of
Married Women's Labor Force Participation," Economic Inquiry (October 1991), 678-695.
(with
Marianne A. Ferber), "Career Plans and Expectations of Young Women and
Men: The Earnings Gap and Labor Force Participation," Journal of Human Resources (Fall 1991), 581-607.
(with
John W. Graham), "Black/White Differences in Wealth and Asset
Composition," Quarterly Journal of
Economics (May 1990), 321-39.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn), "A Model of Joint Wage and Hiring Discrimination,"
Research in Labor Economics (1989),
157-205.
(with
Andrea H. Beller), "Trends in Earnings Differentials by Gender: 1971-1981," Industrial and Labor Relations Review (July 1988), 513-529.
(with
Marianne A. Ferber), "Discrimination:
Evidence from the United States," American Economic Review (May 1987), 316-320.
Reprinted in Economics and Discrimination, vol. 2, ed. by William A. Darity,
Jr., Edward Elgar, 1995.
Reprinted in Readings in Labor Economics and Labor Relations, 5th ed., ed. by
Lloyd Reynolds, Stanley Masters, and Colletta Moser, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1989.
(with
Marianne A. Ferber), "Women's Progress in the Labor Market: Should we Rest on Our Laurels?" Papers
and Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting, Industrial Relations
Research Association (1987), 70-76.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn), "On Estimating Discrimination in the Economy: Comment," Southern Economic Journal, 5l (April l985), 221-226.
(with
Marianne A. Ferber), "Women in the Labor Market: The Last Twenty Years," Laurie Larwood, Barbara Gutek, and
Ann Stromberg, eds., Women and Work 1
(1985).
Reprinted in Readings in Labor Economics and Labor Relations, ed. by Lloyd
Reynolds, Stanley Masters and Colletta Moser.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 4th edition, 1986.
"The
Use of Transfer Payments by Immigrants," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 37 (January 1984), 222-39.
Reprinted in Mark Blaug, ed., The
International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, vol. 4 Klaus
Zimmerman and Thomas Bauer, eds., The Economics of Migration (forthcoming).
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn), "Job Search and Unionized Employment," Economic Inquiry 21 (July 1983), 412-30.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn), "Unionism, Seniority and Turnover," Industrial Relations 22 (Fall 1983),
362-73.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn), "Race and Sex Differences in Quits by Young
Workers." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 34 (July 1981), 563-77.
"On
the Role of Values in Feminist Scholarship." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
6 (Spring 1981), 538-40.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn), "Causes and Consequences of Layoffs." Economic
Inquiry 20 (April 1981), 270-96.
"Immigration
and Labor Earnings in Early Twentieth Century America." Julian Simon and Julie DaVanzo, eds., Research in Population Economics 2
(1980), 21-41.
"Youth
and Jobs: Participation and
Unemployment Rates." Youth and Society 10 (September 1979),
32-52.
(with
Wallace Hendricks), "Occupational Segregation by Sex: Trends and Prospects." Journal
of Human Resources 14 (Spring, 1979), 197‑210.
"Comment
on Mueller's 'The Economic Determinants of Volunteer Work by Women,'" Signs:
Journal of Women in Culture and Society 2 (Autumn 1976), 251-254.
(with
Carol Jusenius), "Economists' Approaches to Sex Segregation in the Labor
Market: An Appraisal." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
1 (Spring 1976, Part 2), 181-99.
Reprinted in Economics and Discrimination, vol. 1, ed. by William A. Darity,
Jr., Edward Elgar, 1995.
Reprinted in Woman in a Man-Made World: A
Socioeconomic Reader, 2nd Edition, ed. by Nona Glazer and Helen Youngelson
Waehrer, Chicago: Rand McNally, 1977,
pp. 194-207.
Reprinted in Women and the Workplace, ed. by Martha Blaxall and Barbara Reagan,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1976, pp. 181-99.
"Women's
Place in the Labor Market." American Economic Review, 62 (May 1972),
161-66.
Reprinted in the Second Crisis of Economic Theory, ed. by
Rendigs Fels. Morristown: General Learning Press, 1972, pp.
161-66.
Reprinted in Readings in Labor Economics and Labor Relations, ed. by Lloyd G.
Reynolds, Stanley H. Masters and Collette Moser. Englewood Cliffs:
Prentice-Hall, lst and 2nd editions, 1974 and 1978.
Chapters:
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn) Collective Bargaining, Relative Wages and Employment: International Microeconomic Evidence, in
Phanindra V. Wunnava, ed., Changing Role
of Unions: New Forms of Representation
(Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming).
(with
Giuseppe Bertola and Lawrence M. Kahn) Comparative Analysis of Labor-Market
Outcomes: Lessons for the United States
from International Long-Run Evidence, in Alan Krueger and Robert Solow, eds., The
Roaring Nineties, Russell Sage Foundaton The Century Foundation (2001).
Gender,
Economics of, in Paul B. Baltes and
Neil J. Smelser, eds., International
Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Oxford, England:
Elsevier Science, Ltd., 2001.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn). "Gender and
Youth Employment Outcomes: The US and
West Germany, 1984-91," in David Blanchflower and Richard Freeman, eds., Youth Unemployment and Employment in
Advanced Countries, University of Chicago Press, 2000.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn). "Institutions
and Laws in the Labor Market, in Orley Ashenfelter and David Card, eds., Handbook of Labor Economics, vol. 3A,
The Netherlands: Elsevier Science, B.V., 1999, Chapter 25, pp. 1399-1461.
"Occupational
Segregation" (revised and updated version of previous entry). In Helen Tierney, ed., Women's Studies
Encyclopedia, vol. 1, Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1999.
"On
Becoming and Being an Economist." in Michael Szenberg, ed., Passion and Craft: Economists At Work,
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998, pp. 20-38.
The
Gender Pay Gap, in Christina Jonung and Inga Persson, eds., Women's Work and Wages, London:
Routledge, 1998.
Summarized in The Political Economy of Inequality, Global Development and
Environment Institute, Tufts University.
(with
Ronald G. Ehrenberg). Introduction,
in Francine D. Blau and Ronald G. Ehrenberg, eds., Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1997; paperback
publication 2000.
Summarized in The Changing Nature of Work, Global Development and Environment
Institute, Tufts University, forthcoming.
(with Lawrence M. Kahn). "The Gender Earnings Gap: Some International Evidence," in ,
Lawrence Katz and Richard Freeman, eds., Differences
and Changes in Wage Structures, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Reprinted in Mary A. Yeager, ed., Women in Business, Edward Elgar.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn). "The Changing
Composition of the U.S. Labor Force: Implications for Public Policy," in
Japan Institute of Labour, The Change of
Employment Environment and Human Resource Management in U.S. and Japanese Labor
Markets, Tokyo: Japan Institute of
Labour, 1993, pp. 163-191.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn), "Race and Gender Pay Differentials," in David
Lewin, Olivia Mitchell and Peter Sherer, eds., Research Frontiers in Industrial Relations and Human Resources,
Madison, WI: Industrial Relations Research Association, 1992, pp. 381-416.
"The
Fertility of Immigrant Women: Evidence from High Fertility Source
Countries," in George J. Borjas and Richard B. Freeman, eds., Immigration and the Workforce: Economic
Consequences for the United States and Source Areas, University of Chicago
Press, 1992, pp. 93-133.
(with
Marianne A Ferber) "Women's Work, Women's Lives: A Comparative Perspective."
In Hilda Kahne and Janet Giele, eds.,
Women's Work & Women's Lives: The Continuing Struggle Worldwide, Boulder:
Westview Press, 1992, pp. 28-46.
"Gender." In John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter
Newman, eds., The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Theory and Doctrine,
Macmillan Press, 1987, Vol. 2, pp. 492-498.
Reprinted in John Eatwell, Murray
Milgate, and Peter Newman, eds., The New
Palgrave: Social Economics,
MacMillan Press, l989, pp. 95-108.
Reprinted in John Eatwell, Murray
Milgate, and Peter Newman, eds., The New
Palgrave: The World of Economics, MacMillan Press 1991.
(with
Anne E. Winkler), "Women in the Labor Force: An Overview." In Jo
Freeman, ed., Women: A Feminist Perspective, 4th edition,
Palo Alto: Mayfield, l989,
pp. 265-286.
Reprinted in Joel M. Charon, ed., The Meaning of Sociology, Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1990, 3rd edition; 1993, 4th edition; 1996, 5th
edition.
"Occupational
Segregation." In Helen Tierney, ed., Women's Studies Encyclopedia, vol. 1, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989, pp. 255‑256.
"Immigration
and the U.S. Taxpayer." In Susan
Pozo, ed., Essays on Legal and Illegal
Immigration, Upjohn (1986), pp. 89-110.
(with
Marianne A. Ferber), "Women's Earnings and Occupations." In Karen Koziara, Michael Moscow and
Lucretia D. Tanner, eds., Women and
Work: 1986 Industrial Relations Research
Association Research Volume, Washington, DC: Bureau of National Affairs, 1987, pp. 37-68.
"Discrimination
Against Women: Theory and
Evidence." In William A. Darity,
Jr, ed., Labor Economics: Modern
Views, Boston: Kluwer-Nijhoff,
1984, pp. 53-89.
"Occupational
Segregation and Labor Market Discrimination:
A Critical Review," in Barbara Reskin, ed., Sex Segregation in the Workplace:
Trends, Explanations, Remedies,
Washington, D.C.: National
Academy Press, 1984, pp. 117-143.
"Concluding
Remarks," in Barbara Reskin, ed., Sex
Segregation in the Workplace: Trends,
Explanations, Remedies, Washington, D.C.:
National Academy Press, 1984, pp. 310-313.
"Women
in the Labor Force: An Overview"
(revised and updated version of previous chapter). In Jo Freeman, ed., Women: A Feminist Perspective, 3rd edition,
Palo Alto: Mayfield, 1984, pp.
297-315.
Reprinted in Joel Charon, ed., Meaning of Sociology: Book of Readings, Englewood Cliffs,
NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1987.
"Youth
Participation Rates and the Availability of Jobs." In Naomi Berger Davidson, ed., Supplementary Papers from the Conference on Youth
Unemployment: Its Measurement and
Meaning, Washington, D.C.: U.S.
Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, October 1978, pp.
56-76.
"The
Impact of the Unemployment Rate on Labor Force Entries and Exits." In Isabel Sawhill, ed., Women's Changing Roles at Home and on the Job, National Commission
on Manpower Policy Special Report No. 26, Washington, D.C.: September 1978, pp. 263-88.
"Women
in the Labor Force: An Overview"
(revised and updated version of previous chapter). In Jo Freeman, ed., Women: A Feminist Perspective, 2nd edition,
Palo Alto: Mayfield, 1979, pp. 265-89.
"The
Data on Women Workers: Past, Present,
and Future." In Ann Stromberg and
Shirley Harkness, eds., Women and Their
Work, Palo Alto: Mayfield, 1978,
pp. 29-62.
"Longitudinal
Patterns of Female Labor Force Participation." In Herbert S. Parnes and Others, Dual Careers--A Longitudinal Study of the Labor Market Experience of
Women, Vol. IV, U.S. Department of Labor, Manpower Research Monograph No.
21, Washington, D.C. Government
Printing Office, 1976, pp. 27-55.
"Sex
Segregation of Workers by Enterprise in Clerical Occupations." In Richard C. Edwards, Michael Reich and
David M. Gordon, eds., Labor Market
Segmentation, Lexington, Mass.:
Lexington Books, 1975, pp. 257-78.
"Women
in the Labor Force: An
Overview." In Jo Freeman, ed., Women:
A Feminist Perspective, Palo Alto:
Mayfield, 1975, pp. 211-26.
Reprinted Jerome Skolnick and
Elliott Currie, eds., Crisis in American
Institutions, Boston: Little Brown
& Co., 1976, pp. 215-30.
(with
Richard Weisskoff), "The Political Economy of the (Brazilian) Education
System." In by H. Jon Rosenbaum
and William Tyler, eds., Contemporary
Brazil: Issues in Economic and
Political Development, New York:
Praeger, 1972, pp. 371-98.
Other:
From the Chair, CSWEP Newsletter,
Winter 2003; Spring/Summer 2003; Fall 2003; Winter 2004.
Annual Report of the American Economic
Association Committee on the Status of women in the Economics Profession, American Economic Review (forthcoming May 2004).
The Gender Pay Gap in International
Perspective, Queens University, Industrial Relations Centre Press, 2002, 7pp.
(with Lawrence M. Kahn), The Gender
Pay Gap, NBER Reporter, Summer 2001.
(with
Deborah Anderson), Frances Perkins, The
Oxford Companion to United States History, edited by Paul S. Boyer, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 588.
The
Changing Labor Market For Women, Perspectives
on Work, vol. 1, no. 3 (1998), pp.
39-42.
(with
Deborah Anderson), Frances Perkins, Madam Secretary, American Economic
Association, Committee on the Status of Women, CSWEP Newsletter (February 1997), pp. 23-24.
Alumni Perspective, in The ILR School at Fifty, compiled by Robert McKersie, J. Gormly
Miller, Robert Aronson and Robert Julian, Cornell University, 1996, pp. 91-93.
"Comments
on 'Child Care: Private Cost or Public
Responsibility.'" Individual and
Social Responsibility: Child Care, Education, Medical Care, and Long-Term Care
in America ed. by Victor R. Fuchs (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1996).
"Research
Summaries: Gender and Economic Outcomes," NBER Reporter, National Bureau of Economic Research (Spring 1992),
pp. 4-7.
(with
Marianne Ferber), "Comparable Worth," Classrooms & Lunchrooms: A Journal for Teachers of Economics
(Fall/Winter 1992-93), pp. 4, 12.
(with
Marianne Ferber), "Women's Contribution to Labor Economics: Part II,"
American Economic Association, Committee on the Status of Women in the
Economics Profession, CSWEP Newsletter (Fall-October 1992), pp. 2-6.
(with
Marianne Ferber), "Women's Contribution to Labor Economics: Part I,"
American Economic Association, Committee on the Status of Women in the
Economics Profession, Newsletter
(Spring/Summer-May 1992), pp. 2-6.
Review
of IMMIGRATION, TRADE, AND THE LABOR MARKET, ed. by John M. Abowd and Richard
B. Freeman, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Industrial
and Labor Relations Review (October 1992), pp. 201-203.
Review
of UNDERSTANDING THE GENDER GAP: AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN, by
Claudia Goldin, New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Journal
of Political Economy (December 1991), 1332-35.
"Trends
in Earnings of Women and Minorities:
Discussion by the Authors," Industrial
and Labor Relations Review (July 1988), 547-549.
"Changes
in Labor Force Opportunities: An
Appraisal," in Ingredients for
Women's Employment Policy, ed. by Christine Bose and Glenna Spitze. SUNY Press, 1987, pp. 239-43.
"The
Economic Status of Women and Family Well-being," testimony presented
before the House Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families (April 17,
1986).
"Comments
on W. Lee Hansen and Karen Holden, 'Part-time Work and Occupational
Segregation.'" Gender in the Work Place, ed. by Clair
Brown and Joseph Pechman (Washington, D.C.:
The Brookings Institution, 1987), pp. 238-40.
"The
Economic Status of Women in the Labor Market," testimony presented before
the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Judiciary
Committee (September 14, 1983).
Review
of A CHALLENGE TO SOCIAL SECURITY, ed. by Richard V. Burkhauser and Karen C.
Holden, New York: Academic Press,
1982. Journal of Economic Literature 21 (Sept. 1983), 1041-42.
Review
of CHANGING PLACES: MEN AND WOMEN IN
TRANSITIONAL OCCUPATIONS, by Carol Tropp Schreiber, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1979. Journal of Economic
Literature 19 (March 1981), 158-9.
"Data
Needs Relating to Women's Health:
Introduction," in Barbara Reagan ed., Census Bureau Conference on Issues in Federal Statistical Needs
Relating to Women, Current Population Reports, Special Studies, Series
P-23, No. 83 (U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., Dec. 1979), p. 93.
Review
of EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY AND THE AT&T CASE, ed. by Phyllis Wallace,
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1976. Industrial
and Labor Relations Review, 31 (October 1977), 118-119.
Review
of SEX DISCRIMINATION AND THE DIVISION OF LABOR, ed. by Cynthia B. Lloyd, New
York: Columbia University Press,
1975. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 30 (January 1977), 254-55.
Review
of THE AMERICAN WOMAN: HER CHANGING
SOCIAL ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ROLE, 1920-1970, by William Chafe, New York: Oxford University Press, 1972. Journal
of Human Resources, 10 (Fall 1975), 548-50.
"Discussion: Dual Labor Markets," Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary
Meeting, Industrial Relations Research Association, Toronto, December
28-29, 1972, pp. 299‑300.
(with Lawrence M. Kahn) The Gender Pay Gap: Going, Going, But Not Gone, August 2003, 51 pp.
(with Lawrence M. Kahn) The US Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence, August 2003, 60 pp.
(with Giuseppe Bertola and Lawrence M. Kahn),
Labor Market Institutions and Demographic Employment Patterns, NBER Working
Paper No. 9043 (July 2002).
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn and Jane Waldfogel), The Impact of Welfare Benefits on Single
Motherhood and Headship of Young Women: Evidence From the Census, NBER Working
Paper No. 9338 (November 2002).
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn), Do Cognitive Test Scores Explain Higher US Wage
Inequality? NBER Working Paper No. 8210 (April 2001); revised March 2002.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn and Jane Waldfogel), Does Welfare Influence Young Womens
Decisions About Marriage, Single Parenthood, and Female Headship? Working
Paper, Cornell University (March 1999).
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn and Jane Waldfogel), The Effects of Labor Markets, Marriage
Markets and Welfare Benefits on Young Womens Family Formation Decisions:
1970-1997, Final Grant Report to the Russell Sage Foundation, March 1999.
SELECTED RECENT PAPERS PRESENTED/LECTURES
(with Lawrence
M. Kahn) The US Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence, seminars at Cornell University,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Washington; St Louis,
Washington University Seattle; 2005 AEA meetings, Philadelphia.
The Gender
Pay Gap: Going, Going
But Not Gone,
The L. Kevin Becraft Lecture Series, Institute for Workplace Studies, Cornell
University ILR, October 2002.
Reflections
on Feminism and Economics, Women and Gender Studies Program, Princeton
University, November 2002.
The Gender
Pay Gap in International Perspective, Don Wood Visitorship, Industrial
Relations Centre, Queens University, Kingston Ontario, November 2001.
The Gender
Pay Gap: Going, Going
But Not Gone,
Annual Milton Derber Lecture, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations,
University of Illinois, March 2001.
(with Giuseppe Bertola and Lawrence M. Kahn) Comparative Analysis of Labor Market
Outcomes: Lessons for the US from
International Long-Run Evidence, January 2001, presented at the Russell
Sage/Century Foundation Conference on Sustainable Employment, Amelia Island,
Florida, January 2001
(with Lawrence M. Kahn) The Effect of Wage Inequality on the Gender Pay
Gap: International Evidence from 1985
to 1994, International Centre for Economic Research, Turin Italy, Conference
on Labor Market and Social Policies, Turin, April 1998, Society of Labor
Economists Meetings, San Francisco, May 1998, NBER Summer Institute Labor
Studies Conference, Cambridge, Mass., July 1998, and American Economic
Association/Industrial Relations Research Association Winter Meetings, New
York, January 1999.
Rising
Inequality by Skill: A Dilemma for Public Policy, Joseph L. Lucia Public
Policy Lectures, Villanova University, November 1998.
Widening
Differentials by Skill: An American
Dilemma, Presidential Address, Industrial Relations Research Association,
Chicago, January 1998.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn), The Effect of Wage Inequality on the Gender Gap:
International Evidence: 1985-1990, Conference on Labor Market and Social
Policies, ICER, University of Turin, Turin Italy, April 1998.
"Gender
and Youth Employment Outcomes: The US and
West Germany," guest speaker, The Economics of Education and Employment
Group (EEEG), Royal Holloway College, University of London, July 1997.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn), "Gender and Youth Employment Outcomes: The US and West Germany, 1984-91," National Bureau of Economic Research and
Universitat Konstanz Conference on "Youth Unemployment and Employment in
Advanced Countries," Konstanz Germany, May 1996.
(with
Lawrence Kahn), "International Differences in Male Wage Inequality:
Institutions and Market Forces," American Economic Association Annual
Meetings, Washington, DC, January, 1995.
"Where
are We in the Economics of Gender? The
Gender Pay Gap," plenary lecture, Lund Symposium on "Economics of
Gender and the Family," Rungstedgaard Denmark, August 1995.
"The
Gender Earnings Gap," annual David Steine Memorial Lecture, Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, TN, March 1994.
(with
Lawrence Kahn), "Rising Wage Inequality and the U.S. Gender Gap,"
American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Boston, January, 1994.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn), "The Changing Composition of the U.S. Labor Force:
Implications for Public Policy," Conference on "The Change of
Employment Environment and Human Resource Management in U.S. and Japanese Labor
Markets," Japan Institute of Labor, Tokyo, and Conference on
"Changing Employment Environments and the Development of Human Resources:
the U.S. and Hong Kong," University of Hong Kong, October 1993.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn), "The Gender Earnings Gap: Some International Evidence," Conference on Income
Distribution and Economic Policy, Hebrew University, Bar Ilan University and
the Ruppin Institute, Israel, May 1993.
"Gender
and Economic Outcomes," keynote address, European Association of Labour
Economists annual meeting, Warwick, England, September 1992.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Professional Committees:
Chair, American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Women in
the Economics Profession, 2003--; Society of Labor Economics, Chair, Program
Committee, 1997; American Economic Association, Program Committee, 1993;
Industrial Relations Research Association Program Committee, 1989-92;
Industrial Relations Research Association Working Group on Publications,
1988-90; Industrial Relations Research Association Liaison Committee with the
American Economic Association on the Program, 1988-90; Industrial Relations
Research Association Research Volume Selection Committee 1987-89; Nominating
Committee, Midwest Economics Association, 1984 and 1986; American Economic
Association Committee on the Status of Women in the Economic Profession,
American Economic Association, 1972-75.
Professional Memberships: American Economic Association;
Society of Labor Economics; Midwest Economic Association; Industrial Relations
Research Association, Population Association of America.
Referee:
American Economic Review; Journal of Political Economy; Quarterly Journal of Economics; Journal of Labor Economics; Review of Economics and Statistics; Journal of Human Resources; Economic Inquiry; Industrial and Labor Relations Review; Industrial Relations; Journal
of Economic Literature; Advances in
Industrial Relations; Southern
Economic Journal; Journal of Urban
Economics; Swedish Journal of
Economics; Explorations in Economic
History; Journal of Policy Analysis and Management; Quarterly Journal of Economics and Business;
Social Problems; Slavic Review; Research in
Population Economics; Demography;
Science; International Regional Science Review; Women's Studies International Quarterly; Urban Affairs Quarterly; American
Journal of Sociology; Administrative
Science Quarterly.
Ad Hoc Grant Reviewer:
National Science Foundation; National Institute of Education; Social
Science Research Council; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Member,
National Longitudinal Surveys-Technical Review Committee, April 2001-April
2003.
Member,
Steering Committee, Century Foundation and Russell Sage Foundation Sustainable
Employment Project, 1999-2000.
Organizer
(with Orley Ashenfelter) of the Cornell-Princeton Conference on New Research
Perspectives on Labor Unions, Cornell University, May 1999.
Organizer
(with Henry Farber) of the Cornell-Princeton Conference on Social and Labor
Market Outcomes of Youth, Cornell University, May 1998.
Organizer
(as President of the Association) of the Industrial Relations Research
Association Annual Meetings, January 1998.
Organizer
(with Henry Farber) of the Cornell-Princeton Conference on Layoffs, Employment
Stability and Job Changing, Cornell University, May 1997.
Organizer
(as Chair of the Program Committee) of the annual meetings of the Society of
Labor Economics, Washington, DC, May 1997.
Member,
External Review Committee, Department of Economics, Hunter College, CUNY, March
1997.
Organizer
(with Craig Olson of University of Wisconsin and Thomas Kochan of Massachusetts
Institute of Technology) of the Sloan Conference on The Growth in Labor
Market Inequality, University of Wisconsin, February 1997.
Organizer
(with Ronald Ehrenberg of Cornell University) of the ILR-Cornell-Russell Sage
Foundation "Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace" Conference,
Cornell .University, April 21-23, 1995.
Participated
in the National Science Foundation Conference on "Investing in Human
Resources" which worked on formulating a strategic plan for the National
Science Foundation Human Capital Initiative, March 1994.
Organizer
(with Charles Brown of University of Michigan) of the National Bureau of
Economic Research Universities Research Conference on "The Labor Market in
International Perspective," Cambridge MA, April 10-11, 1992.
Organizer
(as President of the Association) of the Midwest Economics Association
Meetings, Chicago, March 26-28, 1992.
Member,
External Review Committee, Department of Industrial Relations, University of
Minnesota, May 1991.
Member,
National Academy of Sciences Panel on Pay Equity Research, 1985-1989.
Member,
Visiting Committee, Department of Economics, American University, Fall 1986.
Testimony
before the Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families of the House of
Representatives on the impact of the economic status of women on family
well-being, April 1986.
Member,
National Academy of Sciences Panel on Technology and Women's Employment,
1983-1986.
Testimony
before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Judiciary
Committee of the House of Representatives on the economic impact of the Equal
Rights Amendment, September 1983.
HONORS
Fellow,
Society of Labor Economics, 2003-present.
(with
Lawrence Kahn), At Home and Abroad: US Labor Market Performance in
International Perspective, awarded the Rcihard A. Lester Prize for the
Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations published in 2002
by the Princeton University Industrial Relations Section.
(with
Lawrence Kahn), At Home and Abroad: US Labor Market Performance in
International Perspective, Received Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and
Industrial Relations published in 2002 (Industrial Relations Section, Princeton
University); selected
as an outstanding scholarly book for 2002 by Choice Magazine.
The
Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, Awarded by the American Economic Association Committee
on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) for furthering the
status of women in the economics profession, 2001.
(with
Ronald Ehrenberg), Co-edited book, Gender
and Family issues in the Workplace, listed in Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, 1997,
Industrial Relations Section Princeton University.
(with
Lawrence M. Kahn), Honorable mention, 1996, Minnesota Award awarded by the
University of Minnesota for the best article during the past two years on the
role of institutions in the labor market.
Included
in Who's Who in Economics: A Biographical Dictionary of Major
Economists 1700 to 1995 (3rd edition), edited by Simon James and
Mark Blaug, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1999; and Whos Who in Economics:
1990 to 2000 (4th ed), edited by Blaug and Vane, Cheltenham, UK:
Edward Elgar, forthcoming.
Listed
in Who's Who in America, Who's Who of America Women, American Men and Women of Science: Social
and Behavioral Sciences, Dictionary
of International Biography, Who's Who
in the Midwest, Contemporary Authors,
The Writers Directory, Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America,
World Who's Who of Women.
Burlington
Northern Faculty Achievement Award for outstanding teaching and research,
campus-wide award, University of Illinois, 1993.
Included
in "An Incomplete List of Teachers Rated as Excellent by Their
Students," University of Illinois, fifteen times.
Named
best graduate instructor in the Economics Department, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, during 1981 (small class size category).
Named
"Best Faculty Teacher" in undergraduate instruction, Department of
Economics, University of Illinois, 1976.
Kinkead
Research Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991-2 and
1992-3.
Daniel
Alpern Award, 1966; Irving M. Ives Award, 1964, 1965, School of Industrial
Relations, Cornell University.
Phi
Kappa Phi Scholastic Honorary Society; Pi Gamma Mu, Social Science Honorary
Society; Pi Delta Epsilon, Journalism Honorary Society.