Lori G. Kletzer
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty; Professor of Economics, 2010-

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Office: Eustis 305A
Phone: 207-859-4770
Fax: 859-4775 (Academic V.P. )
Fax 2: 859-5229 (Economics )
Email:

Mailing Address:
4770 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8847

Education


B.A., Vassar College, 1979
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1986

Areas of Expertise:
  • Labor economics
  • Unemployment
  • Labor market policy
  • economics of education
Professional Information

Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, July 2002-, (Economics Department Chair, December 2003 � June 2007)
Non-resident Senior Fellow, Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, October 2003-
Visiting Fellow, Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC, August 2000 - July 2001
Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, July 1998-June 2002
Resident Scholar, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, November 1999
Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, January-June 1998
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1993-1998
Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1992-93
Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), Williams College, July 1993-June 1994
Assistant Professor of Economics, Williams College, 1986-93
Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Economic Studies Program, Washington, D.C.,

Current Research

Size and scope of services offshoring;
Long-term unemployment; policy responses

Publications

Job Loss from Imports: Measuring the Costs, Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC, September 2001.
Imports, Exports, and Jobs: What does trade mean for employment and job loss?, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI, December 2002.
�Trade-related Job Loss and Wage Insurance: A Synthetic Review,� Review of International Economics, Volume 12, Issue 5, November 2004, pp. 724-748.
�Tradable Services: Understanding the Scope and Impact of Services Offshoring,� (with J. Bradford Jensen) in Brookings Trade Forum 2005, �Offshoring White-Collar Work � The Issues and the Implications,� Susan M. Collins and Lael Brainard, editors, 2006, pp. 75-134.
�Trade and Immigration: Implications for the U.S. Labor Market,� in A Future of Good Jobs: American�s Challenge in the Global Economy, Timothy Bartik and Susan Houseman, eds., Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2008, pps. 119-160.
�Measuring Tradable Services and the Task Content of Offshorable Services Jobs,� in Labor in the New Economy, Katharine Abraham, Mike Harper and James Spletzer, eds., University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.