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.

 

 

Selected Recent Working Papers

(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 Women’s 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 Women’s 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 Who’s 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.