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Lawrence Kahn

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Professor Emeritus
Economics
Lawrence Kahn

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133 Statler Dr
258 Ives Hall Faculty Wing
Ithaca, NY 14950
United States

Overview

Lawrence M. Kahn is the Braunstein Family Professor and Professor of Economics. He is an elected Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists. He is a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Studies/Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich, Germany, of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany, and of the National Centre for Econometric Research in Australia (Sportometrics Program). He was Chair of the Labor Economics Department at Cornell during 1998-99 and 2000-2005, is Editor of the Industrial & Labor Relations Review, is on the editorial board of the Journal of Sports Economics, served as Associate Editor of the Industrial & Labor Relations Review and Specialized Co-Editor (for Sports Economics) of Economic Inquiry and was on the Board of Editors of Industrial Relations. Before joining the Cornell faculty in 1994, he was a Professor of Economics and Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois. He has served as Visiting Fellow in the Economics Department of Princeton University, Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York, Visiting Scholar at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Visiting Scholar at the Office of Labour Market Policy Evaluation in Uppsala, Sweden, and Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University. He has also served as a member of the National Academy Sciences Committee on Women's Employment and Related Social Issues.

Teaching Statement 

Professor Kahn teaches at the undergraduate level ILRLR 4030/Econ 3460: The Economics of Collective Bargaining in Sports and at the graduate level Econ 7430/ILRLE 7460: Seminar in Labor Economics.

Research Statement 

Professor Kahn's research interests include international differences in labor market institutions and labor market outcomes such as wage inequality, unemployment, and the gender pay gap. In addition, he has had a long term interest in sports labor markets and is currently also conducting research on immigration and the labor market.

He has published articles in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, International Economic Review, the Economic Journal, Economica, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Labor Economics. His book At Home and Abroad: U.S. Labor Market Performance in International Perspective (with Francine D. Blau), published by the Russell Sage Foundation, won the Richard A. Lester Prize, awarded by the Princeton University Industrial Relations Section for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations published in 2002. His biography is listed in Who's Who in Economics.

Publications

Book Chapters

  • , & . . The Sources of the Gender Pay Gap: An Economics Perspective. In Social Stratification. Routledge.
  • , & . . US Female Labor Force Participation: Falling Behind Other Countries. In Social Stratification. Routledge.
  • , & . . Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes. In Handbook of the Economics of International Migration. (pp. 793-843). Elsevier.
  • . . The Economics of Discrimination: Evidence from Basketball. In Oxford Handbook on Sports Economics . (pp. 21-38). Oxford University Press.
  • , & . . Inequality and Earnings Distribution. In Oxford Handbook on Economic Inequality . (pp. 177-203). Oxford University Press.
  • , & . . Payoff Uncertainty in Finitely-Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma Games. In Handbook of Experimental Economics Results. (pp. 598-606). North-Holland.
  • , & . . Women's Work and Wages. In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. (pp. 762-772). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • , & . . Gender and Assimilation among Mexican Americans. In Mexican Immigration. (pp. 57-106). University of Chicago Press.
  • , & . . The Gender Pay Gap: Going, Going, ... But Not Gone. In The Declining Significance of Gender?. (pp. 37-66). Russell Sage Foundation.
  • , & . . Collective Bargaining, Relative Wages and Employment: International Microeconomic Evidence. In Changing Role of Unions: New Forms of Representation. (pp. 169-228). M.E. Sharpe.
  • , , & . . Comparative Analysis of Labor-Market Outcomes: Lessons for the United States from International Long-Run Evidence. In The Roaring Nineties. Russell Sage: Century Foundation Press.
  • . . A Level Playing Field? Sports and Discrimination. In The Economics of Sports. (pp. 115-130). W.E. Upjohn Institute.
  • , & . . Gender and Youth Employment Outcomes: The US and West Germany, 1984-91. In Youth Unemployment and Employment in Advanced Countries. University of Chicago Press.
  • , & . . Institutions and Laws in the Labor Market. In Handbook of Labor Economics. North-Holland.
  • , & . . Why Does the U.S. Have Higher Male Wage Inequality? Prices Versus Characteristics. In Comparisons Internationale De Salaires. INSEE.
  • , & . . The Gender Earnings Gap: Some International Evidence. In Differences and Changes in Wage Structures. University of Chicago Press.
  • , & . . The Changing Composition of the U.S. Labor Force: Implications for Public Policy. In The Change of Employment Environment and Human Resource Management in U.S. and Japanese Labor Markets. (pp. 163-191). Japan Institute of Labour.
  • . . Discrimination in Baseball. In Diamonds Are Forever. (pp. 163-188). The Brookings Institution.
  • , & . . Race and Gender Pay Differentials. In Research Frontiers in Industrial Relations and Human Resources. (pp. 381-416). Industrial Relations Research Association.
  • , & . . Racial Discrimination in the NBA. In The Business of Professional Sports. (pp. 71-94). University of Illinois Press.

Journal Articles

  • , , , , , & . . Culture and Gender Allocation of Tasks: Source Country Characteristics, Housework, and Childcare Division of Labor among US Immigrants. Review of Economics of the Household, 18(4), 907-958. (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-020-09501-2)
  • . . Introduction to a Special Collection on European Labor Markets in Flux: The German Experience. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 73(3), 1040-1045. (DOI:DOI: 10.1177/0019793920937959)
  • , , , , & . . Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?. Journal of Population Economics, 33(3), 709-750. (DOI:DOI 10.1007/s00148-019-00760-7)
  • , , , , & . . Declining Son Preference in the US. VOX: CEPR Policy Portal.
  • , , , & . . Introduction to a Special Issue on the Impact of Immigrant Legalization Initiatives: International Perspectives on Immigration and the World of Work. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 71(4), 807-822.
  • . . Permanent Jobs, Employment Protection and Job Content. Industrial Relations, 57(3), 569-638.
  • . . Myth and Measurement by David Card and Alan B. Krueger: Introduction to a Retrospective Symposium. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 70(3/May 2017), 813-814.
  • , & . . The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Sources. Journal of Economic Literature, 55(3), pp. 789-865.
  • . . The Structure of the Permanent Job Wage Premium: Evidence from Europe. Industrial Relations, 55(1/January 2016), 149-178.
  • . . Wage Compression and the Gender Pay Gap. IZA World of Labor, 150(April 2015), 10.
  • . . Skill Shortages, Mismatches and Structural Unemployment: A Symposium. ILR Review, 68(2), 247-250.
  • , & . . SUBSTITUTION BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND CULTURAL CAPITAL: PRE-MIGRATION LABOR SUPPLY, CULTURE AND US LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES AMONG IMMIGRANT WOMEN . Journal of Human Capital, 9(4), 439-482.
  • . . "New Evidence on Gender and the Labor Market: A Symposium". ILR Review, 67(2), 283-286.
  • . . Introduction to the US Department of Labor Centennial Symposium. ILR Review, 67, 563-568.
  • , & . . Female Labor Supply: Why is the US Falling Behind?. American Economic Review, 103(3), 251-256.
  • , & . . The Feasibility and Importance of Adding Measures of Actual Experience to Cross-Sectional Data Collection. Journal of Labor Economics, 31(2), S17-S58.
  • , , , & . . The Transmission of Women’s Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations. Journal of Population Economics, 26(2), 405-435.
  • . . Labor Market Policy: A Comparative View on the Costs and Benefits of Labor Market Flexibility. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (this was an invited paper for a symposium on policy), 31(1/Winter), 94-110.
  • . . Temporary Jobs and Job Search Effort in Europe. Labour Economics, 19(1), 113-128.
  • , , & . . SUBSTITUTION BETWEEN MANAGERS AND SUBORDINATES: EVIDENCE FROM BRITISH FOOTBALL. Labour Economics (this is the journal name--it is the Journal of the European Association of Labour Economists but is not listed above), 18(3), 275-286.
  • , , & . . Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants: 1980-2000. Review of Economics and Statistics, 93(1), 43-58.
  • . . Employment Protection Reforms, Employment and the Incidence of Temporary Jobs in Europe: 1996-2001. Labour Economics, 17(1), 1-15 (lead article).
  • . . Sports, Antitrust Enforcement and Collective Bargaining. Antitrust Bulletin, 54(4), 857-881.
  • , , & . . Source Country Characteristics and the Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrant Women. VOX: CEPR Policy Portal.
  • . . The Impact of Wage-Setting Institutions on the Incidence of Public Employment in the OECD: 1960-1998. Industrial Relations, 47(3), 329-354.
  • , , & . . Labor Market Institutions and Demographic Employment Patterns. Journal of Population Economics, 20(4), 833-867.
  • , & . . Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980-2000. Journal of Labor Economics, 25(3), 393-438.
  • , & . . The Gender Pay Gap. Economists' Voice.
  • . . The Impact of Employment Protection Mandates on Demographic Temporary Employment Patterns: International Microeconomic Evidence. The Economic Journal, 117(521), F333-F356.
  • . . Sports League Expansion and Consumer Welfare. Journal of Sports Economics, 8(2), 115-138.
  • , & . . The Gender Pay Gap: Have Women Gone as Far as They Can?. Academy of Management Perspectives, 21, 7-23.
  • . . Cartel Behavior and Amateurism in College Sports. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21(1), 209-226.
  • , & . . The US Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 60(1), 45-66.
  • . . Race, Performance, Pay and Retention among National Basketball Association Head Coaches. Journal of Sports Economics, 7(2), 119-149.
  • , & . . Race, Compensation and Contract Length in the NBA: 2001-2. Industrial Relations, 44(3), 444-462.
  • , & . . Do Cognitive Test Scores Explain Higher US Wage Inequality?. Review of Economics and Statistics, 87(1), 184-193.
  • . . Immigration, Skills and the Labor Market: International Evidence. Journal of Population Economics, 34(3), 501-534.
  • , , & . . The Impact of Welfare Benefits on Single Motherhood and Headship of Young Women. Journal of Human Resources, 39(2), 382-404.
  • , , , & . . The Role of the Family in Immigrants’ Labor-Market Activity: An Evaluation of Alternative Explanations: Comment. American Economic Review, 93(1).
  • . . Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment in OECD Countries. CESifo DICE Report: Journal for Institutional Comparisons, 1(4), 25-32.
  • , & . . Understanding International Differences in the Gender Pay Gap. Journal of Labor Economics, 21(1), 106-144.
  • , & . . Reply to Berndt Keller and to David Marsden. Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 23(4), 1077-1081.
  • , & . . The Gender Pay Gap. NBER Reporter.
  • . . Wage Inequality, Collective Bargaining and Relative Employment 1985-94: Evidence from 15 OECD Countries. Review of Economics and Statistics, 82(4).
  • , & . . Gender Differences in Pay. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 14(4), 75-99.
  • . . The Sports Business as a Labor Market Laboratory. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 14(3), 75-94.
  • , , & . . Understanding Young Women's Marriage Decisions: The Role of Labor and Marriage Market Conditions. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 53(4), 624-647.
  • , & . . Analyzing the Gender Pay Gap. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 625-646.
  • , & . . Institutions and Laws in the Labor Market. Handbook of Labor Economics, 5(3A), 1399-1462.
  • . . Collective Bargaining and the Interindustry Wage Structure: International Evidence. Economica, 65(260), 507-534.
  • . . Against the Wind: Bargaining Recentralisation and Wage Inequality in Norway 1987-91. The Economic Journal, 108(448), 603-645.
  • , & . . Swimming Upstream: Trends in the Gender Wage Differential in the 1980s. Journal of Labor Economics, 15(1), 1-42.
  • , & . . Wage Structure and Gender Earnings Differentials: An International Comparison. Economica, 63(250), S29-S62.
  • , & . . International Differences in Male Wage Inequality. Journal of Political Economy, 104(4), 791-837.
  • , & . . Rising Wage Inequality and the U.S. Gender Gap. American Economic Review, 84(2), 23-33.
  • , & . . A General Experiment on Demand Games with Outside Options. American Economic Review, 83(5).
  • . . Unions and Cooperative Behavior: The Effect of Discounting. Journal of Labor Economics, 11(4), 680-703.
  • , & . . Conjecture, Uncertainty and Cooperation in Prisoner's Dilemma Games: Some Experimental Evidence. Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 22(3), 91-117.
  • . . Managerial Quality, Team Success and Individual Player Performance in Major League Baseball. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 46(3), 531-547.
  • . . Free Agency, Long Term Contracts and Compensation in Major League Baseball: Estimates from Panel Data. Review of Economics and Statistics, 75(1), 157-164.
  • , & . . The Gender Earnings Gap: Learning from International Comparisons. American Economic Review, 533-538.
  • . . The Effects of Race on Professional Football Players' Compensation. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 45(2), 295-310.
  • , & . . Efficiency Wages, Monopoly Unions and Efficient Bargaining. The Economic Journal, 101(408).
  • . . Customer Discrimination and Affirmative Action. Economic Inquiry, 29(3), 555-571.
  • . . Discrimination in Professional Sports: A Survey of the Literature. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 44(3), 395-418.
  • , & . . The Impact of the Threat of Bankruptcy on the Structure of Compensation. Journal of Labor Economics, 8(4), 419-447.
  • , & . . The Demand for Labor Market Information. Southern Economic Journal, 56(4), 1044-1058.
  • , & . . Contingent Pay and Managerial Performance. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 43(3), 107S-120S.
  • , & . . A Model of Joint Wage and Hiring Discrimination. Research in Labor Economics, 157-205.
  • , , & . . Inflation Uncertainty and Strike Activity. Industrial Relations, 27(1), 114-129.
  • , & . . Racial Differences in Professional Basketball Players' Compensation. Journal of Labor Economics, 6(1), 40-61.
  • , & . . Systematic and Random Search: A Synthesis. Journal of Human Resources, 23(1), 1-20.
  • , & . . Unions and Nonunion Wage Dispersion. Review of Economics and Statistics, 69(4), 600-607.
  • . . Unemployment Insurance, Job Queues, and Systematic Job Search: An Equilibrium Approach. Southern Economic Journal, 54(2), 397-411.
  • , & . . Contract Length, Indexation and Ex Ante Real Wage Variability. Journal of Labor Research, 8(3), 221-236.
  • , & . . Wage Indexation and Compensating Wage Differentials. Review of Economics and Statistics, 68(3), 484-492.
  • , & . . The Future of Wage Indexation in Collective Bargaining Contracts. Monthly Labor Review, 108(5), 29-32.
  • , & . . On Estimating Discrimination in the Economy: Comment. Southern Economic Journal, 51(4), 221-226.
  • , & . . The Demand for Labor Market Structure: An Economic Approach. Journal of Labor Economics, 2(3), 412-438.
  • , & . . An Empirical Model of Employed Search, Unemployed Search and Nonsearch. Journal of Human Resources, 19(1), 104-117.
  • . . The Effect of Collective Bargaining on Production Technique: A Theoretical Analysis. Journal of Labor Research, 5(1), 1-12.
  • , & . . Unionism, Seniority and Turnover. Industrial Relations, 22, 362-373.
  • , & . . Job Search and Unionized Employment. Economic Inquiry, 21, 412-430.
  • , & . . Cost of Living Clauses in Union Contracts: Determinants and Effects. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 36(3), 447-460.
  • , & . . The Relative Effects of Employed and Unemployed Job Search. Review of Economics and Statistics, 64(2), 234-241.
  • , & . . The Determinants of Bargaining Structure in U.S. Manufacturing Industries. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 35(2), 181-195.
  • , & . . The Wage Effects of Job Search. Industrial Relations, 21(1), 53-61.
  • , & . . Race and Sex Differences in Quits by Young Workers. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 34, 563-577.
  • , & . . Causes and Consequences of Layoffs. Economic Inquiry, 20, 270-296.
  • . . Reply to Lincoln Fairley. Labor History, 22(2), 313-315.
  • , , & . . Wage and Nonwage Outcomes in Collective Bargaining: Determinants and Tradeoffs. Journal of Labor Research, 2(1), 39-53.
  • . . Sex Discrimination in Professional Employment: A Case Study-Comment. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 34(2), 273-275.
  • . . Bargaining Power, Search Theory and the Phillips Curve. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 4(3), 233-244.
  • . . Unions and Internal Labor Markets: The Case of the San Francisco Longshoremen. Labor History, 21(3), 369-391.
  • . . Union Spillover Effects on Unorganized Labor Markets. Journal of Human Resources, 15(1), 87-98.
  • . . Wage Growth and Endogenous Experience. Industrial Relations, 19(1), 50-63.
  • . . Unionism and Relative Wages: Direct and Indirect Effects. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 32(4), 520-532.
  • . . Union Strength and Wage Inflation. Industrial Relations, 18(2), 144-155.
  • , & . . Unions and Employment Stability: A Sequential Logit Approach. International Economic Review, 20(1), 217-235.
  • . . The Returns to Job Search: A Test of Two Models. Review of Economics and Statistics, 60(4), 496-503.
  • . . Unions and the Employment Status of Nonunion Workers. Industrial Relations, 17(2), 238-244.
  • . . The Effect of Unions on the Earnings of Nonunion Workers. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 31(2), 205-216.
  • . . Union Impact: A Reduced Form Approach. Review of Economics and Statistics, 59(4), 503-507.
  • . . Internal Labor Markets: San Francisco Longshoremen. Industrial Relations, 15(3), 333-337.

Conference Proceedings

  • , , & . . Collective Bargaining Institutions and Demographic Employment Patterns.
  • , & . . Youth Employment in the US and West Germany, 1984-91.
  • , & . . International Differences in Male Wage Inequality: Institutions Versus Market Forces.
  • . . Discussion-Labor Economics.
  • . . Discussion-Labor Economics.
  • . . Discussion-Labor Economics.
  • , & . . Wage Indexation in America: Prospects for the 1980's.
  • . . Discussion-Job Advancement for Women.
  • . . On the Concept of Health Capital: Comments on 'Data Needs Relating to Women's Health' by Charlotte Muller.

Books

  • , & . . At Home and Abroad: US Labor Market Performance in International Perspective. Russell Sage Foundation.
  • , & . . Wage Inequality: International Comparisons of Its Sources. American Enterprise Institute Press.
  • , , , & . . Economics of the Employment Relationship. Scott Foresman.
  • , & . . Women's Work, Men's Work: Sex Segregation on the Job. National Academy of Sciences.
  • , & . . Wage Indexation in the United States: Cola or Uncola?. Ballinger.
  • , , & . . Bargaining Structure and Bargaining Outcomes: Determinants and Tradeoffs. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Evaluation and Research, U.S. Department of Labor.
  • . . Unions and Labor Market Segmentation. Manpower Administration, U.S. Department of Labor.

Book Reviews

  • . . Review of 'Paying for Productivity' edited by Alan S Blinder.
  • . . Review of 'Inside the Firm' by Harvey Leibenstein.
  • . . Review of 'Unions in Transition' edited by Seymour Martin Lipset.
  • . . Review of 'Shifting Gears' by Harry C Katz.
  • . . Review of 'The Elements of Industrial Relations' by Jack Barbash.
  • . . Review of 'Internal Labor Markets' edited by Paul Osterman.
  • . . Review of 'Living with Capitalism' by Theo Nichols and Huw Beynon.

Professional activities

  • Culture and Gender Allocation of Tasks: Source Country Characteristics, Housework, and Childcare Divisikno of Labor among US Immigrants. Presented to American Economic Association. Atlanta, Georgia. 2018.
  • Is There Still Son Preference in the United States. Presented to University of Toronto. Toronto Canada. 2018.
  • Female Labor Supply: Why is the US Falling Behind. Presented to American Economic Association. San Diego. 2012.
  • SUBSTITUTION BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND CULTURAL CAPITAL: PRE-MIGRATION LABOR SUPPLY, CULTURE AND US LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES AMONG IMMIGRANT WOMEN. Presented to Renmin University. Beijing, China. 2012.
  • SUBSTITUTION BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND CULTURAL CAPITAL: PRE-MIGRATION LABOR SUPPLY, CULTURE AND US LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES AMONG IMMIGRANT WOMEN. Presented to Society of Labor Economists. Chicago, IL. 2012.
  • The Transmission of Women’s Fertility, Human Capital, and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations. Presented to Leonard and Gretchan Broom Center for Demography. University of California Santa Barbara. 2012.
  • The Transmission of Women’s Fertility, Human Capital, and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations. Presented to Yale Law School. New Haven, CT. 2011.
  • THE TRANSMISSION OF WOMEN’S FERTILITY, HUMAN CAPITAL AND WORK ORIENTATION ACROSS IMMIGRANT GENERATIONS. Presented to Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany. Bonn, Germany. 2011.
  • THE TRANSMISSION OF WOMEN’S FERTILITY, HUMAN CAPITAL AND WORK ORIENTATION ACROSS IMMIGRANT GENERATIONS. Presented to IZA/CEPR. Ammersee, Germany. 2011.
  • Temporary Jobs and Job Search Effort in Europe. Presented to Banco de Portugal. Porto, Portugal. 2011.
  • SUBSTITUTION BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND CULTURAL CAPITAL: PRE-MIGRATION LABOR SUPPLY, CULTURE AND US LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES AMONG IMMIGRANT WOMEN. Presented to University of Oslo. Oslo, Norway. 2011.
  • The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations. Presented to University of Oslo. Oslo Norway. 2011.
  • The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations. Presented to Midwest Economic Association. St Louis, MO. 2011.
  • Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants: 1980-2000. Presented to American Economic Association. Denver, CO. 2010.
  • Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants. Presented to Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics. Stanford University. 2010.
  • Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants: 1980-2000. Presented to National Bureau of Economic Research. Cambridge, Mass. 2010.
  • Temporary Jobs and Job Search Effort in Europe. Presented to European Association of Labour Economists/Society of Labor Economists. London, England. 2010.
  • Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants: 1980-2000. Presented to University of Warwick. Warwick, UK. 2010.
  • Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants: 1980-2000. Presented to University of Washington. Seattle, Washington. 2010.
  • Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants. Presented to Southern California Conference in Applied Microeconomics. Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA. 2010.
  • Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants: 1980-2000. Presented to SUNY-Albany. Albany NY. 2010.
  • What Characterizes a Flexible Labor Market and What are Its Effects?. Presented to Ministry of Finance of Sweden. Stockholm, Sweden. 2010.
  • Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role of Expert Knowledge. Presented to Society of Labor Economists. Boston, MA. 2009.
  • The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generatios. Presented to Society of Labor Economists. Boston, MA. 2009.

Honors and Awards

  • Time Use Research Award, IPUMS.